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 unfold 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”