Quotes

Question 1

Romeo (Act 1 Scene 4)

Love - negative

Answer 1

“Under love’s heavy burden do I sink”

Question 2

Romeo (Act 2 Scene 2)

Romeo admiring Juliet

Answer 2

“It is the east, and Juliet is the sun / Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon” Sun is nice, sun and moon cannot co-exist

Question 3

Romeo balcony scene (Act 2 Scene 2)

Answer 3

“With love’s light wings did I o’er-perch these walls”

Question 4

Juliet about Paris (Act 3 Scene 5)

Answer 4

“He shall not make me there a joyful bride”

Question 5

Juliet waiting for Romeo before hearing about Paris’ death (Act 3 Scene 2)

Answer 5

“Come, gentle night […] Give me my Romeo”

Question 6

Lord Capulet upset Juliet won’t marry Paris (Act 3 Scene 5)

Answer 6

“Hang thee, disobedient wretch […] hang, beg, starve, die in the streets”

Question 7

Lady Capulet siding with Capulet when Juliet refuses to marry Paris (Act 3 Scene 5)

Answer 7

“I would the fool were married to her grave!”

Question 8

Romeo on fate after killing Tybalt (Act 3 Scene 1)

Answer 8

“O I am fortune’s fool!”
Fate using him for fun
Emphasised when Friar’s letter isn’t delivered

Question 9

Mercutio after Romeo refuses to fight Tybalt (Act 3 Scene 1)

Answer 9

“O calm, dishonourable, vile submission!”

Question 10

Benvolio trying to stop the fight between the families’ servants (Act 1 Scene 1)

Answer 10

“Part, fools! Put up your swords”

Question 11

Tybalt declaring his hate for peace and Benvolio (thee)(Act 1 Scene 1)

Answer 11

“Peace! I hate the word / As I hate hell, all Montagues and thee”

Shows prejudice of hate, he hates all Montagues no matter what their individual qualities are and he hates Benvolio for associating with them

Question 12

Friar Laurence on the effects of Romeo and Juliet’s marriage (Act 2 Scene 3)

Answer 12

“household’s rancour to pure love”

Didn’t overcome the intensity of the hate between the 2 families until their deaths

Question 13

Nurse defending Juliet (Act 3 Scene 5)

Answer 13

“You are to blame, my lord, to rate her so.”

Question 14

Prologue

Answer 14

“From forth the fatal loins of these two foes / A pair of star-crossed lovers take their life”

Alliteration emphasises ‘fatal’, it sounds like the word fate

Question 15

Prince describing the start of the family feud (Act 1 Scene 1)

Answer 15

“Three civil brawls, bred of an airy word”

Question 16

Romeo ironically suggesting for the first time that fate doesn’t decide everything (Act 5 Scene 1)

Answer 16

“Then I defy you, stars!”

Question 17

Capulet calling for his sword to join in the fighting, but Lady Capulet says a crutch would be more suitable afterwards (Act 1 Scene 1)

Answer 17

“Give me my long sword, ho!”

Question 18

Romeo worshipping Juliet, religious imagery, kiss (Act 1, Scene 5) and Romeo kissing Juliet before he suicides (hell). Follows her to death (Act 5 Scene 3)

Answer 18

“My lips, two blushing pilgrims, ready stand / To smooth that rough touch with a tender kiss”
“lips, O you / the doors of breath, seal a righteous kiss / A dateless bargain to engrossing death”
breath - essential to life
eternal agreement with death
lips in both quotes
Play ends how it started: “with a kiss, I die”
Romeo and Juliet sacrificed so families can be reconciled like Jesus

Question 19

Romeo before he suicides (Act 5 Scene 3)

Answer 19

“shake the yoke of inauspicious stars”
yoke - plough that an ox pulls on farmland - he is stuck to it
inauspicious = unlucky

Question 20

Prince, after the peace was established

Answer 20

“heaven finds means to kill your joys with love”
suggests that fate was written at start, but also suggests that the reason fate killed their children was because of the families’ hate for each other
joys = children

Question 21

Romeo describing how interlinked love and hate is (Act 1 Scene 3)

Answer 21

“O brawling love! O loving hate!”

Loving one family results in hating another

Question 22

Juliet describing how she unfortunate she is that she loves Romeo, a Montague (Act 1 Scene 5)

Answer 22

“My only love sprung from my only hate”

She is very sure she hates Montagues but we never learn why - shows how irrational hate is

Question 23

Benvolio reassuring Romeo after he is lovesick about Rosaline saying that he will show him other women (Act 1 Scene 2)
Romeo sees Juliet and develops Benvolio’s metaphor
(Act 1 Scene 5)

Answer 23

“I will make thee think thy swan a crow”
Metaphor of birds and contrast between white and black
“So shows a snowy dove trooping with crows”
Dove - white and pure, peace - peace between families

Question 24

Sonnet between Romeo and Juliet (Act 1 Scene 5)

Answer 24

Sonnets are usually a man declaring his love for a woman, but this time Juliet joins in for stanza 2, 3 and the rhyming couplet, shows doesn’t wait for Romeo but engages with him and shows that she finds him attractive

Question 25

Juliet waits for Romeo for their wedding night (Act 3 Scene 2)

Answer 25

“bought the mansion of a love / But not yet possess’d it and though I am sold / Not yet enjoy’d”

They become each other’s property

Question 26

Mercutio curses both families as he dies (Act 3 Scene 1)

Answer 26

“A plague o’ both your houses”