Prologue

Question 1

Summarises the main events in the play and introduces some of the main themes

Answer 1

Revealing the death of the lovers straight away so his audience is more interested in how their deaths unfoldthe actions that drive them to their death) and not the deaths themselves when they occur

Question 2

Is a sonnet with language associated with BOTH conflict and love

Answer 2

Using a romantic love poem with language associated with conflict to create ANTITHESIS and introduce one of the main features in the play already
SYMBOLISING you cannot have love without hate

Question 3

“a pair of star-crossed lovers”

Answer 3

Introduces the lovers this way to the audience to establish right from the start that the universal power of fate and the stars is against them.

Question 4

“a pair…

Answer 4

…of star-crossed lovers”