Quotes act 1:

Question 1

A pair of star-crossed lovers take their life. What does this quote suggest and what techniques are here?

Answer 1

-Imagery and religious imagery. Shakespeare has used this to allow the audience to imagine the play’s plot from the very beginning. The image of a pair ‘of star-crossed lovers’ is very tragic and symbolises two people who have gone against fate to be with each other, with disastrous consequences.

Question 2

“What art thou drawn among these heartless hinds?/Turn thee, Benvolio, look upon thy death.” - who says this quote?

Answer 2

Tybalt:Act 1 Scene 1

Tybalt is saying to Benvolio that he must look to him(tybalt), his “death”;the reason for Benvolio’s death.

Question 3

‘I will push Montague’s men from the wall and thrust his maids to the wall (1.1)’

Answer 3

Samson’s boast introduces the theme of sex in explicitly violent terms. He imagines attacking Montague men and assaulting Montague women. Sex is paired with violence throughout Romeo and Juliet. Even the sexual union of the lovers themselves is shadowed by the violence between their families: on the same night that Romeo comes to consummate his marriage to Juliet, he kills her cousin Tybalt.