Love

Question 1

“Passion lends them power” - Capulet

Answer 1

• R+J’s love makes them both stronger-willed.
• Shows the power of love.

Question 2

‘”Young men’s love then lies not truly in their hearts but in their eyes” - Friar

Answer 2

• He is skeptical of Romeo’s newfound love.
• Men often lust after women and do not love them.

Question 3

“I love thee better than thou canst devise” - Romeo (to Tybalt)

Answer 3

• Tybalt is Romeo’s family now.
• Shows how family love was valued very highly in Elizabethan era, and that family was important.

Question 4

“Is love a tender thing? It is too rough, too rude, too boisterous, and it pricks like a thorn.” - Romeo

Answer 4

• Before meeting Juliet he calls love a harsh, harmful and heartbreaking experience.
• Contrasts after he meets her.

Question 5

“Had she affections and warm youthful blood, She would be as swift in motion as a ball.” - Juliet (about Nurse)

Question 6

“I will not budge for no man’s pleasure, I” - Mercutio

Answer 6

• He will not change for anyone and doesn’t care what they think of him.

Question 7

“O sweet Juliet, thy beauty hath made me effeminate, and in my temper softened valour’s steel.” - Romeo

Answer 7

• His mood is shifting from gentle and loving to angry and vengeful.
• Juliet made him gentle and less aggressive.
• Toxic masculinity- being ‘soft’ is seen as a bad thing.

Question 8

“With love’s light wings did I o’erperch these walls” - Romeo

Answer 8

• Love gives him strength

Question 9

“Juliet is the sun” - Romeo

Answer 9

• Figurative language.
• ELEVATES HER - makes her seem otherworldly by comparing her to something physically above everyone.
• The sun has no competition at all. It’s on the next level

Question 10

“I am afeared … this is but a dream. Too flattering sweet to be substantial’ - Romeo

Answer 10

• He is so in love with Juliet that he thinks he’s imagining it.
• He is afraid of this, showing how much he values their love.

Question 11

“Like fire and powder which as they kiss consume” - Friar

Answer 11

• Shows the destructive potential of their feelings

Question 12

“O, she doth teach the torches to burn bright!” - Romeo

Answer 12

• Shock, contrast to ‘night’ in the next line.
• Emphasises the brightness of J’s beauty.

Question 13

“Did my heart love till now? forswear it, sight! For I ne’er saw true beauty till this night” - Romeo

Answer 13

• His emotions change quickly
• Hypocritical
• Love at first sight for Romeo

Question 14

“Romeo, Romeo, Romeo! Here’s drink: I drink to thee” - Juliet

Answer 14

• He is her last thought as she drink
• Foreshadows when he is her last thought/ view when she dies at the end.

Question 15

“Thus with a kiss I die” - Romeo

Answer 15

• He still loves her as he dies- shows their love goes beyond life again.

Question 16

“Their death-mark’d love” - Chorus

Answer 16

• It was fated to end in death from the start.

Question 17

“Love is … a madness … a choking gall” - Romeo

Answer 17

• Foreshadows how he will fall for Juliet, but how his idea of love will change as he falls for her.

Question 18

“The love-devouring Death”- Friar

Answer 18

• Talks about death right next to marriage.
• Shows how death and marriage are linked; foreshadowing.
• Marriage faces death.

Question 19

“The imagin’d happiness” - Romeo

Answer 19

• Could be a fantasy of love or R+J, not real love.

Question 20

“Good Capulet, which name I tender as dearly as mine own” - Romeo

Answer 20

• Replacing conflict with love.
• Mirrors balcony scene.
• Shows that Romeo respects Tybalt now.

Question 21

“The all-seeing sun ne’er saw her match, since first the world begun’’- Romeo

Answer 21

• There has never been someone as beautiful as Juliet