R&J Quotes

Question 1

Patriarchy

Answer 1

A3S4
“Sir Paris, I will make a desperate tender of my child’s love”
A3S5
“I will not marry yet”
“Here comes your father, tell him so yourself”
“Young baggage, disobedient wretch… my fingers itch”

Question 2

Time

Answer 2

“Two hour traffic of our stage” - Prologue

“She has not seen the age of 14”

“Those in a rush do stumble” - Friar

Question 3

Sexual Innuendo

Answer 3

“Drivelling love, lolling up and down”
“Draw thy tool, my naked weapon is out”
“Let me be put to death”

Question 4

Power of love

Answer 4

“I have bought a mansion of love but not possessed it”

Blinding love
“Defy thy father and refuse thy name”
“There lies Tybalt” - Romeo kills Tybalt

Suicide
“Brandishes a knife”
“If all else fails, myself have the power to die”

Question 5

Prologue

Answer 5

Contrasting end rhymes
Dignity - mutiny
Scene - unclean
Life - strife
Love - remove

“Fatal loins of these two foes”
1. Reproductive organs
2. Bloodlines

“Death marked love”
“From ancient grudge to new mutiny”
“Star-crossed lovers take their life”

Question 6

Fate

Answer 6

“I defy you stars!”
“A plage-a both houses” - Mercutio when he is killed
“I will be brief… a tedious tale” - Friar retelling what happened

Question 7

Toxic masculinity

Answer 7

“Therefore women being the weakne