R&J FATE

Question 1

“A plague on both your houses!”

Answer 1

-Peripeteia, foreshadowing/metaphor
-During the peripeteia Mercutio curses both C&M for his death
-‘Plague’ suggests that bad things will happen to both houses (R&J death)

Question 2

“My grave is to be like my wedding bed.”

Answer 2

-Foreshadowing
-Juliet says this when she and Romeo part ways
-Foreshadows the end of the play when Romeo and her both die, her grave actually is her wedding bed

Question 3

“Methinks I see thee; now thou art so low, as one is dead in the bottom of a tomb.”

Answer 3

-Foreshadowing, Simile
-When saying bye to Romeo from her balcony she comments how it is like looking down to him in a grave.
-Foreshadows their death

Question 4

-“Star cross’d lovers”

Answer 4

-Prologue, foreshadowing, metaphor and symbolism
-Metaphor foreshadows the role that fate will play in shaping the life and death of the protagonists.
-We helplessly watch it unfold

Question 5

“I am fortunes fool!”

Answer 5

-Metaphor, exclamation, peripeteia
-Romeo has a sense of realisation, his agnorisis. He is a victim of fate
-He blames fate and not his Hamartia

Question 6

“Then I defy you stars!”

Answer 6

-Hubris/Irony
-When Romeo heard of Juliet’s death he curses the stars, (fate).
-Ironic when taking his life as he unknowingly succumbs to fate
-He believes that he can defeat fate (hubris)