Romeo

Question 1

2.2: Angelic imagery

Answer 1

“Speak again, bright angel!”

“A winged messenger of heaven”

“Two of the fairest stars in all the heaven”

Question 2

2.2: You can’t have love without lust, Romeo and Juliet’s love is the same as Romeo’s love for Rosaline, just reciprocated

Answer 2

“Her vestal livery is but sick and green”

Question 3

1.1: Semantic field of oxymorons to express Romeo’s depression and confusion over Rosaline rejecting his lust

Answer 3

“Brawling love! Loving hate!”
Exclamation marks suggest that he is extremely desperate

“Heavy lightness”
“Feather of lead”
Suggests Romeo is feeling down / depressed

Question 4

1.1: Plato’s idea of 2 halves

Answer 4

“This is not Romeo! He is some other where!”
Love makes you feel complete

Third person emphasises that Romeo feels that he has lost his sense of self

Question 5

1.4: Romeo’s lust for Rosaline is weighing him down / hurting him

Answer 5

“I have a soul of lead / So stakes me to the ground I cannot move”

Lead is poisonous

Question 6

1.5: Form

Answer 6

Romeo and Juliet’s lines in this scene form a sonnet

Question 7

1.5: Light as a symbol for Romeo and Juliet’s love

Answer 7

“O, she doth teach the torches to burn bright!”