Quotes

Question 1

Your consent gives it strength to fly

Answer 1

Juliet
She is submissive, the idillic Elizabethan girl

Question 2

These violent delights have violent ends

Answer 2

Friar Lawrence
Highlights their harmartias & how destructive their love is

Question 3

Young baggage! Disobedient wretch

Answer 3

Lord Capulet
Insults her as soon as she disobeys him and she doesn’t want to marry Paris

Question 4

Part, Fools

Answer 4

Benvolio
He is the personification of peace; he tries to stop the conflict & he is the only male character to survive till the end of the pkay

Question 5

Do you bite your thumb at us sir?

Answer 5

A silent, immature way of insulting someone, Shakespeare criticises the foolishness of the conflict.
Sampson even denies biting his thumb, further highlighting the immature and foolish nature of the violence

Question 6

Is she not proud?

Answer 6

Lord Capulet
His response to Juliet not wanting to marry Paris, she had been so obedient and for her to now display an act of disobedience, he became offended and implies that she is ungrateful.

Question 7

Death is my son in law

Answer 7

Lord Capulet
After finding out Juliet has died, his main concern is the fact that Paris will not be his son in law as he can’t marry Juliet if she is dead.

Question 8

O I am fortunes fool!

Answer 8

Romeo
He blames fate for his actions; killing Tybalt
O & the exclamation mark show he is distressed
Romeo believes that fate is mocking him

Question 9

thrust his maids to the wall

Answer 9

Sampson
He says how women are the ‘weaker vessels’ thus proving that Elizabethan society was sexist and patriarchal

Question 10

my grave is like to be my wedding bed

Answer 10

Juliet
Foreshadowing her fate
Her and Romeo are reunited in her tomb and in death

Question 11

I would the fool we’re married to her grave

Answer 11

Lady Capulet
In this case ‘would’ = wishes and because Juliet won’t submit and marry Paris, her mother wishes death upon her
No mother should wish death upon their child, but this further supports the idea that Juliet’s mother was very distant to her

Question 12

Madam

Answer 12

Juliet
She calls her mother ‘Madam’ highlighting their distant family dynamic

Question 13

that I must love a loathed enemy

Answer 13

Juliet
Juliet faces an inner conflict, discovering Romeo’s identity, that he’s from a rival family
The modal verb ‘must’ indicates how she doesn’t have a choice and it is her fate

Question 14

I defy you stars

Answer 14

Romeo
After finding out Juliet is ‘dead’ he becomes openly opposed to the destiny that grieves him.
The use of this metaphor illustrates how Romeo tries to challenge his predetermined density but the stars can’t really be defied, highlighting his frustration

Question 15

Henceforth I will never be Romeo

Answer 15

Romeo
He will change his name from Monatague if it displeases Juliet, showing passion and infactuation
Giving up his family name is dishonourable to the Montages and the ongoing conflict

Question 16

My only love sprung from my only hate

Answer 16

Juliet
The Montages were the only thing Juliet had been taught to look at with true animosity
The verb ‘sprung’ shows how it was unexpected for Juliet, but it is her fate