R+J quotes for themes

Question 1

'’A pair of star cross’d …’’

(prologue) (fate and freewill)

Answer 1

'’A pair of star cross’d lovers take their life.’’

star cross’d = literally means frustrated by the stars metaphorically showing their love to fail.
superstitious audience
(celestial imagery)

Question 2

'’from ancient grudge …’

(prologue)

(fate and conflict)

Answer 2

'’from ancient grudge break to new mutiny.’’

adj. ancient = sacred, unbreakable
juxtaposed by adj. noun phrase ‘new mutiny’= foreshadow intensity brought about by R+J.

Question 3

'’Doth with their death bury …’’

(prologue)

(fate and conflict)

Answer 3

'’Doth with their death bury their parent’s strife.’’

rep. plosives = importance of death, not only love but also to end ‘ancient grudge.’
sibilance = sense of evil and sinister at how innocence is being stolen by rivalry

Question 4

(Sampson) ‘‘Women, being the weaker vessels …’’

(act1,1)

(gender roles)

Answer 4

'’Women, being the weaker vessels are ever thrust to the wall.’’

comparative adj. ‘weaker vessels’ = biblical allusion, weaker sex and ‘vessel to rear children (roles of women).
verb ‘thrust’ = sexual innuendo = culture of men

Question 5

(Tybalt) ‘‘I hate the word as i hate hell, …’’

(act1,1)

(oppositions and conflict)

Answer 5

’’ I hate the word as i hate hell, all montagues and thee.’’

Juxtaposes Benvolio ‘i do but keep the peace’ = shows how opposing the families are
power of three = solidifies extent of bad blood between M’s and C’s

Question 6

(Prince) ‘‘Thrice_____’’ ‘‘Your lives shall pay the …’’

(act1,1)

(fate and conflict)

Answer 6

'’Thrice disturb’d’’ ‘‘Your lives shall pay the forfeit of the peace.’’

dramatic irony = not the parents who die but the children.
how the feud has infected Verona
also prince as an authoritative figure.

Question 7

Romeo : ‘‘I am not here. This is not Romeo. He …’’

(act1,1)

(love and isolation)

Answer 7

'’I am not here. This is not Romeo. He is some other where.’’

poetic nature = aligns himself with petrarchan love
Renaissance period = full of philosophical thoughts, Elizabethans thought body was in 3 parts : mind, body + soul
Argue R’s heartbreak have separated the 3 parts
emotional vulnerability

Question 8

Capulet : ‘‘My child is yet …’’

(act1,2)

(gender roles + fate)

Answer 8

'’My child is yet a stranger in the world’’.

possessive pronoun = literally his child but also women belonging to their fathers until wed.
metaphor = parental love + guidance but also inexperience
how she was still a stranger when ‘dead’

Question 9

Benvolio : ‘‘Take thou some new infection to thy eye, and …’’

(act1,2)

(love + oppositions)

Answer 9

'’Take thou some new infection to thy eye, and the rank poison of the old will die.’’

semantic field of decay = how R’s old love will die with his his courtly love he will find with However perhaps semantic field of decay suggests it will gradually go away but still live inside him and perhaps be the cause of his death as he goes against the order of nature .
infection = extended metaphor as shows how lovesick R is.
poison = also foreshadowing at his way of death.

Question 10

Capulet : ‘‘Ere we may think her …’’

(act 1,2)

(gender roles)

Answer 10

'’Ere we may think her ripe to be a bride.’’

dehumanization + objectification as fruit = Elizabethan attitudes.
or ripe = fertility = role to bear children + J’s transition from innocence to experience

or ripe alludes to fruit, as if Juliet will be ready to be consumed by a patriarchal society that values mens lives over woman.

Question 11

Lady Capulet : ‘‘Where’s my daughter ? …’’

(act1,3)

(love)

Answer 11

'’Where’s my daughter ? call her fourth to me.’’

aggravated imperatives = cold +distant relationship
possessive pronoun = ownership over Juliet

Question 12

Nurse : ‘‘What _____-! What Lady___! ‘’

(act1,3)

(love)

Answer 12

'’What lamb! What Ladybird! ‘’

lamb + ladybird = natural + beautiful imagery = contradictory to Lady C’s relationship
lamb = biblical imagery = innocence and goodness
R later calls J ‘bright angel’ = religious imagery and idolatry the tow have for J.

Question 13

Nurse : ‘Thou wilt fall backwards …’’.

(act1,3)

(gender roles)

Answer 13

‘Thou wilt fall backwards when thou comest to age’’.

crude + sexual language = nurse = bawdy
nurse is lower class
also women’s roles as being sexually subservient to men. J’s role is pre-ordained

Question 14

Juliet : ‘‘It is an honour …’’

(act1,3)

(gender roles)

Answer 14

'’It is an honour i dream not of.’’

proleptic irony = J would not only have dreamt love but also died for it
show J as not interested in love or as transgressing against societal expectations against her mothers will and the will of God.

Question 15

Nurse : ‘‘He’s a man …’’

(act1,3)

(gender roles + love)

Answer 15

'’He’s a man of wax.’’

wax = e-metaphor of youth + beauty
or sculpture or no substance

Question 16

Romeo : ‘‘I have a soul of lead so …’’.

(act1,4)

(love + isolation)

Answer 16

'’I have a soul of lead so stakes me to the ground I cannot move.’’

extended metaphor = lead = metal = R’s soul has been corrupted by the unrequited love or lead how he is feeling heavy
dynamic verb ‘stakes’ = against his will

Question 17

Romeo : ‘‘It is too rough, too rude, too boisterous …’’

(act1,4)

(love + oppositions)

Answer 17

'’It is too rough, too rude, too boisterous and it pricks like a thorn.’’

a-syndetic listing = uncharacteristic of Romeo + a man of this period = how Rosaline has changed the character of Romeo and the depiction of men as being emotional.
simile = clings onto Romeo or painful for him or love is beautiful as thorns often roses. (duality of love and conflict)
This quote is mirrored in act2 by Juliet when she says that there exchange is ‘too rash, too unadvised, too sudden’. = their strong love

Question 18

Mercutio : ‘‘If love be rough with you, …’’

(act1,4)

(love + oppositions)

Answer 18

'’If love be rough with you, be rough with love.’’

antimetabole = reverse phrasing = subversion of love = foil to Romeo= physical + sexual aspects of love.
‘be rough with love’ = ironic as shown that R has been softened by love when later in play he says he has been made ‘softer’ by love = love trumps free will and is part of fate
however roles of men saying he should be a man.

Question 19

Mercutio : ‘‘True, I talk of dreams, which are the …’’

(act1,4)

(oppositions + fate)

Answer 19

'’True, I talk of dreams, which are the children of an idle brain.’’

metaphor = dreams are children of ‘idle brain’ = dream are unformed + juvenile or they are playful and so shouldn’t be taken seriously = insignificance of dreams
In E. era dreams believed to have many purposes, some visions of God so S saying they are insignificant quite disrespectful.
However Romeo is a dreamer

Question 20

Romeo : ‘‘Did my heart love till now ?Forswear it sight, For I …’’

(act1,5)

(love)

Answer 20

'’Forswear it sight, For I ne’er saw true beauty till this night.’’

Romeo = fickle character as just weeping about love with Rosaline.
rhetorical question = ironic as few moments before would have said in love with Rosaline = making him appear unreliable to audience

Question 21

Tybalt : ‘‘To strike him dead, I …’’

(act1,5)

(conflict + fate)

Answer 21

'’To strike him dead, I hold it not a sin.’’

presence of R = disrespectful to family’s honour
introduces male pride + honour
no biblical support for it not being sin so = religious law and personal desires clashing therefore hyper-masculinity
arguably Tybalt who ends up killing Romeo as he wouldn’t have been banished to Mantua.

Question 22

Capulet : ‘‘I’ll make you …’’

(act1,5)

(oppositions)

Answer 22

'’I’ll make you quiet.’’

short simple sentence = exercise power as patriarch of family
aggravated imperative = demanding Tybalt to be quiet

Question 23

Tybalt : ‘‘I will withdraw, but this intrusion shall now …’’

(act1,5)

(conflict + violence)

Answer 23

Tybalt : ‘‘I will withdraw, but this intrusion shall now seeming sweet, convert to bitterest gall.’’

foreshadow the death of mercutio +Tybalt

Question 24

Mercutio : ‘‘Blind is Romeo’s love and ___________ / If love be blind love cannot hit the ____.’’

(act2,1)

(love + conflict)

Answer 24

'’Blind is Romeo’s love and Best befits the dark / If love be blind love cannot hit the mark.’’

-saying R’s + R’s love is shrouded in darkness so doomed to fail.
emphasized by the rhyming couplet of ‘dark’ + ‘mark’

Question 25

Romeo : ‘‘O that i were a glove upon that hand, that … !’’

(act2,2)

(love)

Answer 25

O that i were a glove upon that hand, that i might touch that cheek !’’

exclamative = passion for love
glove = delicacy of his love for her
cheek = synecdoche (part of her body that represents her overall beauty)

Question 26

Juliet : ‘‘O Romeo, Romeo ! wherefore …’’

(act2,2)

(love + conflict)

Answer 26

'’O Romeo, Romeo ! wherefore art thou Romeo ?’’

Why is you name Romeo
exclaiming his name showing intensity of love
rep. Romeo = foregrounding her love as both lexically and literally in her mind.

Question 27

Juliet : ‘‘deny thy father and refuse thy name ;/or if thou wilt …’’

(act2,2)

(love + gender roles + conflict)

Answer 27

Juliet : ‘‘deny thy father and refuse thy name ;/or if thou wilt not be but sworn my love,/ and I’ll no longer be a capulet.’’

lexis (total stock of words) of negation = tensions + oppositions that underpin their love
however also imperatives = lengths she is willing to go to complete love, challenging the idea that blood + heritage is intrinsic to your identity.

Question 28

Juliet : ‘‘The mask of night …’’

(act2,2)

(love)

Answer 28

'’The mask of night is on my face.’’

night = place of sanctuary for R + J to express love (motif throughout play )
metaphor = present night as a driving force their love and love as overwhelming and all consuming

Question 29

Juliet : ‘‘O swear not by _______'’…'’that ________ changes.’’

(act2,2)

(love + conflict)

Answer 29

'’O swear not by the moon’‘…'’that monthly changes.’’

semantic field of transience (temporary) = foreshadows short lived nature of their love but also the idea of ephemeral (temporary) love.

Question 30

Juliet : ‘‘Like a poor prisoner in …’’

(act2,2)

(gender roles)

Answer 30

'’Like a poor prisoner in his twisted gyves,’’

simile = Capulet in control of Juliet reiterating patriarchy
adj. twisted = tightly controlled extent or Juliet doesn’t see eye to eye with attitudes + views of the time surrounding marriage and love.

Question 31

Friar Lawrence : What is her burying grave that …’’

(act2,3)

(love + fate)

Answer 31

'’What is her burying grave, that is her womb:’’

talking about how plants rise from the earth as a womb and die in the earth(mother nature). Links J’s + R’s love to a plant (e-metaphor)

death compared to new life = duality of good + evil = nature used improperly lead to misfortune (natural law of order) = link to Juliet + Romeo dying as rebelled against their families too much.
(fragility of love)

Question 32

Romeo : ‘‘The sweeter rest …’’.

(act2,3)

(love + isolation)

Answer 32

'’The sweeter rest was mine.’’

claims sleeplessness due to love was ‘sweeter’ than sleep.

comparative adj. = cements this showing him to be a petrarchan as all his natural facilities have been disrupted by this love.
was speaking in prose when sad and melancholy but now in verse showing how this love has improved emotional sate showing importance of love.

Question 33

Friar Lawrence : ‘‘Young men’s love then lies not …’’

(act2,3)

(love)

Answer 33

'’Young men’s love then lies not truly in their hearts, but in their eyes.’’

pun on lies = doesn’t believe love is genuine but is comprised of ‘lies’
rejects this as true love but as lust

Question 34

Nurse : ‘‘Doth not rosemary and Romeo/ …’’

(act2,4)

(gender roles)

Answer 34

'’Doth not rosemary and Romeo/ begin doth with a letter ?’

(don’t rosemary and romeo begin with the same letter)

highlights parallels between romeo + rosemary = female imagery of flowers or because it is associated with love/ lust perhaps made to question sincerity of R’s love = or flower as a representative of mourning = proleptic irony of his ending

Question 35

Juliet : ‘‘Love’s heralds should be thoughts which ….’’

(act2,5)

(love + fate)

Answer 35

'’Love’s heralds should be thoughts which ten times faster glide than the sun’s beams driving back shadows.’’

natural + pleasing imagery = missing from other scenes showing different kinds of love that their relationship take on
ominous undertone = juxtaposition between ‘shadows which ‘should be’ driven back but aren’t = degree of childness in her love.
or
how their love will not be long lasted.

Question 36

Nurse : ‘‘He is not the flower of courtesy, but …’’.

(act2,5)

(love + conflict)

Answer 36

'’He is not the flower of courtesy, but I’ll warrant him as gentle as a lamb.’’

objective descriptions = recognise innocence + brashness.
simile = christ like = lamb of God = saviour but also sacrifice
repetition of lamb = calls J it at start = her loving nature

Question 37

Friar : ‘‘So smile the heavens upon this holy act that …’’

(act2,6). So that afterwards nothing happens to make us feel sorrowful about it

(religion + love)

Answer 37

'’So smile the heavens upon this holy act that after hours with sorrow chide us not.’’

sorrow = imposes tragic atmosphere thus proleptic of tragic downfall or tempting of fate
after hours = motif of time + little time they have left

Question 38

Friar : ‘‘You shall not stay alone till holy …’’

(act2,6)

(religion + love)

Answer 38

'’You shall not stay alone/ till holy church incorporates two in one.’’

rhyming couplet = sense of coupling between ‘one’ ‘alone’

not full rhyme = undermines security of their coupling
Also preposition = sense of belonging in their love

Question 39

Mercutio : “O calm dishonourable, ____ submission ! Alla …”

(act3,sc 1)

(oppositions + conflict)

Answer 39

“O calm dishonourable, vile submission ! Alla stoccata carries it away”

power of three = relaying the audience’s belief about the nature of peace
‘Alla stoccata’ = move used in fencing, perhaps he think’s Romeo’s peace is a disease which the only cure is to fight.

Question 40

Mercutio : “A plague a’ …”

(act3,sc1)

(conflict + fate)

Answer 40

“A plague a’ both your houses”

could be argued that this poignant phrase is a catalyst for Juliet’s and Romeo’s downfall.
Or foreshadowing as fate is already written.
Shakespearian audience = strong insult as recent history for them with the plague.
repetition of this phrase is used throughout scene

Question 41

Romeo : “O sweet Juliet beauty hath made me effeminate and …”

(act3,sc1)

(when talking about the reason for Mercutio’s death/ slander)

(gender roles + love)

Answer 41

“O sweet Juliet beauty hath made me effeminate and in my temper softened valor’s steel !”

hyperbole ‘effeminate’ = believes women are weak (dehumanisation)
metaphor ‘valor’s steel’ = believes himself to be a man of steel (patriarchal expectations)

Question 42

Montague : “Not Romeo, Prince, he was Mercutio’s friend. His fault concludes but …”

(act 3,sc1)

(love + conflict)

Answer 42

“Not Romeo, Prince, he was Mercutio’s friend. His fault concludes but what the law should end, the life of Tybalt”

strong rhyming couplets = could show the passion and protection he has over Romeo
or authority he holds
A03 = laws of the time as revenge was thought to be a kind of justice, and so the actions of Romeo were justified.

Question 43

Juliet : “Give me my Romeo, and when i shall ___, take him and cut him out into little stars, and …”

(act3,sc2)

(love + fate)

Answer 43

“Give me my Romeo, and when i shall die, take him and cut him out into little stars, and he will make the face of heaven so fine that all the world will be in love with night”

foreshadow their death as ‘star cross’d lovers’ as well as biblical imagery ‘heaven’
‘die’ = euphemism of orgasim to make her whole universe as Romeo
motif of ‘night’ = sanctuary of love

Question 44

Juliet : “O serpent heart hid with …”

(act3,2)

(oppositions + love + conflict)

Answer 44

“O serpent heart hid with a flowering face !”

oxymoronic language = duality of love and conflict creating contradictory images of Romeo.
metaphor = showing Juliet’s love to be unrealistic and a young children’s infatuation which is binding them (they have not known each other for long enough)

Question 45

Nurse : “There’s no trust, no _____, no________ in men. All perjured, …”

(act3,2)

(gender roles + oppositions)

Answer 45

“There’s no trust, no faith, no honesty in men. All perjured, all forsworn, all naught, all dissemblers”

a-syndetic listing = overwhelming concept that men’s faults are endless
alternatively saying Romeos’ flaws are not his own fault, but his won biology and the influential patriarchal society around him at the time.

Question 46

Friar Lawrence : “Thou art wedded …”

(act3,3)

(fate + conflict)

Answer 46

“Thou art wedded to calamity”

literally = married to disaster, but binding so no escape
ironic = he was the one who married them
metaphorically = Juliet causing the chaos, links to views of patriarchal society at the chaos women bring
accusational tone towards ‘ancient grudge’
overall foreshadows to “death mark’d love”

Question 47

Romeo : “There is no world without Verona walls, but …”

(act3,3)

(isolation + love)

Answer 47

“There is no world without Verona walls, bu purgatory, torture, hell itself”

hyperbole to exaggerate solemn atmosphere = however Elizabethan era = scarce transport links so perhaps not exaggeration
power of three = cements catholic doctrine
shows the deep love he feels as without verona = no Juliet

Question 48

Romeo : “There is no world without Verona walls, but …”

(act3,3)

(isolation + love)

Answer 48

“There is no world without Verona walls, bu purgatory, torture, hell itself”

hyperbole to exaggerate solemn atmosphere = however Elizabethan era = scarce transport links so perhaps not exaggeration
power of three = cements catholic doctrine
shows the deep love he feels as without verona = no Juliet

Question 49

Nurse : “Blubbering and weeping, weeping and ___________ . Stand up, …”

(act3,3)

(talking about Juliet, but telling this to Romeo)

(gender roles + love)

Answer 49

“Blubbering and weeping, weeping and blubbering. Stand up, stand up an you be a man.”

antimetabole + polysyndetic listing = emphasize Juliet’s strong emotions
However repetition = could show how Nurse is tired of Juliet
dynamic verbs ‘stand’ + ‘rise’ = connote going above and beyond for Juliet, ironic as when the Nurse arrives, he is on the ‘ground weeping’ paralysed due to the pain.
However ‘stand’ + ‘rise’ = sexual innuendo for erection reveal bawdiness.
imperative = traditional idea of masculinity

Question 50

Nurse : “Here, sir, a ring …”

(act3,3)

(love)

Answer 50

“Here, sir, a ring she bid me give you.”

ring = symbolises a circle representing their eternal and endless love

Question 51

Lady Capulet : “She is mewed …”

(act3,4)

(love + isolation)

Answer 51

Lady Capulet : “She is mewed up to her heaviness.”

‘mewed’ = confined to her own sadness. isolated in her pain of love but also isolated from her family
iceberg quote = a lot more to it

Question 52

Capulet : “I think she will be …”

(act3,4)

(gender roles)

Answer 52

“I think she will be ruled in all aspects by me”

dramatic irony = already married to Romeo so cannot marry Paris as bigamy was a mortal sin.
S. also wants to show the clear patriarchal structure, in Brooke’s poem, Lady Capulet was organising this but S. chooses to have Capulet arranging it.

Question 53

Romeo : “Let me be put to death. I am …”

(act3,5)

(love)

Answer 53

“Let me be put to death. I am content, so thou wilt have it so.”

infatuation of Juliet = die for her, foreshadowing their ‘death mark’d love’.
let me = surrender = submission for Juliet uncommon in Elizabethan era

Question 54

Lady Capulet : “I’ll send to one in _______… “That he shall soon keep Tybalt __________”.

(act3,5)

(conflict + fate)

Answer 54

“I’ll send to one in Mantua…“That he shall soon keep Tybalt company”.

send someone to Mantua to poison Romeo
Lady Capulet’s word echoe what Romeo said before his death

Question 55

Capulet : “The ship is your body which is … The wind are your _____. Your sighs and your tears … Unless you calm down, tears and sighs will …”

(act3,5)

(gender roles)

Answer 55

“The ship is your body which is sailing on the salt flood of your tears. The wind are your sigh’s. Your sighs and your tears are raging. Unless you calm down, tears and sighs will overwhelm your body and sink your ship”.

extended metaphor of sea = illustrate Juliet’s emotions that are taking over her and making her drown in them.
however the metaphorical language also shows the lack of understanding with Juliet whilst also objectifying her.
Montague’s description of Romeo in act 1 as his tears as ‘dew’ and sighs as ‘clouds’ = being cut from the same cloth reaffirming them as ‘star cross’d lovers’

Question 56

Capulet : “hang, ___, starve, ___ in the _______”

(act3,5)

(gender roles)

Answer 56

“hang, beg, starve, die in the streets”

a-syndetic listing harsh verbs = Capulet word’s as sharp and quick reflecting the way in which the words may have affected Juliet like strategically aimed bullets.
disowned if disobeys
patriarchal environment

Question 57

Nurse : “I think it best you married with the county. Oh he’s a …”

(act3,5)

(love + oppositions + gender roles)

Answer 57

“I think it best you married with the county. Oh he’s a lovely gentleman. Romeo’s a dishclout to him. An eagle.”

choice of Paris proves a moral conundrum as bigamy if marry Paris.
objectification ‘dishclout’ = ironic as Romeo is high status but Nurse depicts as if a peasant, show’s Nurse’s disapproval despite saying she’ll warrant him earlier in play.
metaphor ‘eagle’ = pride + agency = Juliet will have more freedom if marry Paris whereas R + J have to hide in the dark.

Question 58

Friar : “You say you do not know the Lady’s mind ;/ uneven is …”

(act4,1)

talking with Paris

(oppositions + love)

Answer 58

“You say you do not know the Lady’s mind ;/ uneven is the course; i like it not”.

caesura 2nd line = ominous prolepsis is foregrounded
adjective ‘uneven’ = pertinent to Elizabethan audience as it is a representation of a disruption of the Great Chain of being.

Question 59

Juliet : “O bid me leap, rather than marry _____ …“or walk in ________ ways […] serpents […] roaring ______ […] bones […] _____”

(act4,1)

(love + oppositions)

Answer 59

“O bid me leap, rather than marry Paris…“or walk in thievish ways […] serpents […] roaring bears […] bones […] skulls”

macabre (disturbing because of death images) lexis = images of death leek into her language.
potential harmful nature of petrarchan love
‘serpents’ = links to Adam and Eve, she’d rather go against christianity that marry Paris.

Question 60

Juliet : “If thou cans’t give no _____…"”with this knife I’ll …”

(act4,1)

talking with Friar

(violence + love)

Answer 60

“If thou cans’t give no help…"”with this knife I’ll help it presently”

‘knife’ = depths of her sorrow
however also
euphemism ‘help it’ = juxtaposition between her innocence and suicidal intent whilst aso showing strength of R + J’s love as Romeo threatened the same thing earlier on.

Question 61

Juliet : “Pardon, I ________ you. Henceforth I …”

(act4,2)

(gender roles + oppositions)

Answer 61

“Pardon, I beseech you. Henceforth I am ever rul’d by you”

Hyperbolic nature of apology = hinted at by hyperbolic nature
repetition of 2nd Person pronoun ‘you’ = implicity take attention away from her actions
mirrors Capulets earlier words “I think that she will be ruled by me in all respects” and Sampson’s “women being the weaker vessels”
reinforces male-female relations in patriarchal Elizabethan society by submissiveness
contrasted by her egalitarian relationship with Romeo in other scenes, demonstrating purity of their love.

Question 62

Juliet : “My dismal scene I …”

(act4,3)

(fate + love + isolation)

Answer 62

“My dismal scene I needs must act alone”

Her on stage isolation is paradoxical = S. shows that Juliet must be alone and in isolation in order to be with her one true love (Romeo).

Question 63

Juliet : “Shall i not then be stifl’d in the vault, to whose …”

(act4,3)

(isolation + fate + love)

Answer 63

“Shall i not then be stifl’d in the vault, to whose foul mouth no healthsome air breathes in”

personification of vault = almost personifies death foreshadowing fate and building tension for the tragic ending.
her fear is isolation not death = demonstrates extent of her love and how it has taken over all aspects of her life.
verb ‘stifl’d’ = connotes crowding, alluding to her life being limited as there is little space and time creating a sense of foreboding.

Question 64

Lady Capulet : “Hold, take these keys, and fetch …” Nurse : “They call for dates and …”

(act4,4)

(oppositions + isolation)

Answer 64

“Hold, take these keys, and fetch more spices, nurse.” Nurse : “They call for dates and quinces in the pastry”

banal (unoriginal) dialogue between the pair = comes immediately after Juliet’s dramatic act (“I drink to thee”)
potentially highlights conflict between her depressed state and the day to day life going around her augmenting her isolation.
semantic field of food and spices also alluding to how uncaring her family is as they are preparing for the wedding that will not happen.

Question 65

Capulet : “Come stir, __, stir ! […] spare not …”

(act4,4)

(gender roles + love)

Answer 65

“Come stir, stir, stir ! spare not for the cost”

sibilance +fragmented sentence structure + exclamative = haste depicts an image of a worried and organised father thus making the disruption of this organisation all the more impactful.
Alternatively
could be seen as young girls in Elizabethan era being signed off to another man with haste as they were just seen as objects (patriarchal society)

Question 66

Nurse : “Mistress ! What ________ ! Juliet ! […] Why, ____ !” […] why _____”

finding her on bed not breathing

(act4,5)

(love + gender roles)

Answer 66

“Mistress ! What mistress ! Juliet ! […] Why, lamb !” […] why bride”

fragmented and continuous dialogue + exclamative = realisation something is amiss
jovial tone through biblical imagery ‘lamb’ = ensures her final realisation all the more tragic
also summarises Juliet’s different identities in a patriarchal society : = ‘mistress’ = forcibly tied to men around her, ‘lamb’ + ‘lady’ = innocent, ‘bride’ = defined by marriage reaffirming societal expectations

Question 67

Nurse : “She’s dead, _________, she’s ____ ;”

(act4,5)

(love)

Answer 67

“She’s dead, decease’d, she’s dead ;”

repetition = utter shock
unpleasant dental alliteration of ‘d’ to reinforce the situation

Question 68

Capulet : “Death is my …., death is my ____; My daughter he hath ________; I will die”

(act4,5)

(gender roles + love)

Answer 68

“Death is my son in law, death is my heir; My daughter he hath wedded; I will die”

personification of death = death is present on stage foreshadows the many more deaths to come
even in death, Juliet is defined by marriage and stripped of individual identity reaffirming the patriarchal structure in society.

Question 69

Friar : “She’s not well married that lives married long, but she’s …”

(act4,5)

(love + opposition + conflict)

Answer 69

“She’s not well married that lives married long, but she’s best married that dies married young.”

couplet = applies to her marriage to Romeo making her happier than a long marriage ever would.
The dual meaning reflects The Friar’s duplicity in staging Juliet’s death.
However this couplet may also be criticizing the long and ‘ancient grudge’ between the 2 families.

Question 70

Romeo : a spirit “lifts me above the … I dreamt my Lady came and found …”

(act 5,1)

(oppositions + love)

Answer 70

“lifts me above the ground with cheerful thoughts. I dreamt my Lady came and found me dead.”

juxtaposition from unrequited love that ‘so stakes me to the ground i cannot move’.
dream mentioned = foreshadowing the events of their deaths
However also shows how fate is always set in stone as it challenges Mercutio’s earlier belief that dreams are the ‘children of an idle brain’.
Paradoxical nature of these images = the fluctuating nature of love

Question 71

Romeo : (describing the apothecary) “meagre were his ______;/ sharp misery had …”

(act5,1)

(fate)

Answer 71

“meagre were his looks;/ sharp misery had worn him to the bones”.

plethora of macabre words = representative of his own depressed state
or
proleptic for his death as his ‘bones’ will rot and die because of the poison.
He is arguably a representation of Romeo’s negative emotions so a natural place for him to visit.

Question 72

Friar John : “I could not send it […] so fearful …”

(act5, 2)

(fate + love)

Answer 72

“I could not send it […] so fearful they were of infection”

send it = Friar Lawrence wanted the letter sent from Verona to Mantua however could not be sent because of abstract noun ‘infection’
could show how R + J were not fated to be together making the depiction of their love stronger. Links back to when Romeo is told to ‘take thou some new infection to thy eye’.
or
how in Elizabethan times it was very hard to send messages because of laws preventing ongoing plague outbreaks
or
How Verona has became so infected by the conflict that no other towns want anything to do with them
However the authorities fear of infection is proleptic to their deaths establishing a setting of illness and misery.

Question 73

Romeo : “Stay not, be gone; live, and hereafter say a …”

(talking to paris in tomb)

(act5,3)

Answer 73

“Stay not, be gone; live, and hereafter say a madman’s mercy bid thee run away”.

fragmented and repetitious nature = self proclaimed madness as well as desperation
rhyming couplet = strength of his love and how ambitious and passionate he is about dying with his true love to spend the rest of his afterlife with her despite her going to wake up.

Question 74

Romeo : “Thus with a …”

(act5,3)

(love + conflict)

Answer 74

“Thus with a kiss I die”

verb ‘kiss’ = almost relates death with pleasure and happiness perhaps showing his own desire to die.
represents how R + J’s innocent love is fatal.

Question 75

Montague : “There shall no figure at such rate be …”
“As rich shall Romeo’s by his Lady lie - poor …”

(act5,3)

(conflict)

Answer 75

“There shall no figure at such rate be set as that of true and faithful Juliet. “As rich shall Romeos’ by his Lady lie - poor sacrifices of our enmity”

final reconciliation = emphasizes tragic values of recognition and there ‘alike in dignity’ (recognising their selfishness)
metaphor = shows how R + J will turn into statues, eternally objectifying them to serve their parent’s wishes, in death neither of them retain autonomy.
alludes to the prologue how the ‘children’s death will doth bury their parents’ strife”.

Question 76

Gregory : “The quarrel is between our master and …”

Answer 76

“The quarrel is between our master and us their men”.