LOVE

Question 1

ANALYSE “A pair of star-crossed lovers take their life” & “death-marked love” (prologue)

Answer 1

FEATURES:
- juxtaposition
ANALYSIS:
- reference to love early in the play establishes it’s importance throughout
- implies that death and love are inextricably related
- love is intertwined with fate, reference to astrology

Question 2

ANALYSE “O she doth teach the torches to burn bright!” (A1S5)

Answer 2

FEATURES:
- light imagery
-exclamatory sentence
-hyperbole

ANALYSIS:
-she is extremely beautiful
- verb “teach” implies that she is experienced in being beautiful
-“burn” has connotations of violence, love can provide unpleasant sensations.
- Petrarchan lover as he is immediately in love.

Question 3

ANALYSE “O happy dagger. This is thy sheath. There rust and let me die.” (A5S3)

Answer 3

FEATURES:
-personification of dagger
-imperative

ANALYSIS:
-so inlove with romeo she rather die than go on in life without him
-they were unable to be together in life so in death they can reunite.
-her body is thy sheath
-juliets love for romeo is resolute even in the face of death.