R&J quotations-Fate

Question 1

Give an example of a quote from the prologue which shows Fate

Answer 1

‘A pair of star-crossed lovers take their life’

Question 2

Give three quotations from Romeo which show fate

Answer 2

‘my mind misgives some consequence yet hanging in the stars’
‘O, I am fortune’s fool’
‘If i may trust the flattering truth of sheep, my dreams presage some joyful news at hand’
‘Is it e’en so? The I Defy you stars!’
‘Shake the yoke of inauspicious stars’

Question 3

Give two quotations from Juliet which represent the theme of fate

Answer 3

‘O God, I have an ill divining soul!Methinks I see thee, now thou art below. As one dead in the bottom of a tomb’
‘O fortune,Fortune! All men call thee fickle. If thou art fickle, what does thou do with him?’

Question 4

Give two quotes from Lord Capulet which represent the theme of fate

Answer 4

‘Things have falln out, sir, so unluckily, that we have had no time to move our daughter’
‘O heavens! O wife! Look how our daughter bleeds!’

Question 5

Give two quotes from Mercutio which represent the theme of fate

Answer 5

‘O then I see queen Mab has been with you’

‘I talk of dreams which are the children of an idle brain’

Question 6

Give one quote from the Nurse which represents the theme of fate

Answer 6

‘If ye should lead her into fool’s paradise, as they say, it were a very gross kind of wedding’

Question 7

Give three quotes from the friar which represent fate

Answer 7

‘Fear comes upon me, O much i feel some unlucky thing’
‘Unhappy fortune! By my brotherhood, The letter was not nice but full of charge’
‘Wisely and slow, they stumble that run fast’

Question 8

Give context of fate in Elizabethan times

Answer 8

Elizabethans believed fate was controlled by the stars and god planned peoples destiny
Shakespeare was a humanist who believed people contributed to their downfall through a fatal flaw in their character