Romeo and Juliet

Question 1

Romeo quotes

Question 2

Capulet Quotes

Question 3

Fate

Question 4

Toxic mascuinity

Question 5

Fate why

Answer 5

Shakespeare argues that fate if often self inflicted, brought about by a failure to recognise our own flaws or moderate our behaviour

Question 6

Romeo and Juliet why

Answer 6

Romeo and Juliet serve as a warning to the audience against dreaming and behaving impulsively without properly considering actions and their potential consequences

Question 7

Dramatic irony

Answer 7

Through the use of dramatic irony, Shakespeare provides the audience a platform to interrogate the actions of each character and identify how particular decisions lead to tragic outcomes, perhaps in the hope this growing awareness of the correlation between action and repercussion will prompt the audience to be more mindful when making their own decisions

Question 8

Poor advice why

Answer 8

Shakespeare criticises those within society who fail the vulnerable by providing poorly considered advice, even those with ostensibly good intentions

Question 9

Excessively passionate behaviour

Answer 9

Criticises excessively passionate behaviour, highlighting how acting reckless es our if love can have equally negative consequences as acting recklessly out of hate

Question 10

Conflict

Answer 10

Emphasises the futility of conflict , stressing how the feud between the two families continues out of stubborn refusal to forgive or seek forgiveness, rather than for genuine irreconcilable differences

Question 11

Violence why

Answer 11

Highlights how quickly violence spreads , ultimately infiltrating every aspect of society

Question 12

Toxic masculinity

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Criticises toxic masculinity, whereby all men are eventually drawn into libidinal competitiveness and violence for the sake of male bravado

Question 13

Limitations of women

Answer 13

Exposes the limitations places on women within a patriarchal society, whereby women have little autonomy over their own lives or futures

Question 14

Love and violence

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Highlights that love and violence are inextricably connected, suggesting that while love can be exhilarating and transformative, it can also be destructive and chaotic

Question 15

romeo intro

Answer 15

• vehicle to satirise the courtly notion of love, and emphasises the transformative power of true love through his relationship with Juliet
• ATPC… Romeo becomes frequenlty blinded by love snd frequently behaves in a rash and impusilve manner
• enabling Shakespeare to advance his criticsm of behaving recklessly, which often leads to tragic outcomes
• ETP…. Romeo adds to the death count of lives futilley squandered due to the ongoing feud between the two families
• although sacrifice leads to reconciliation in Verona
• shakespeare emphasies that this is a high and unnescary price to bring about peace

Question 16

romeo paraph 1

quote 1

Answer 16

introduced as a sullen and morose individual, pining over his unrequinted love for Rosaline
* oxymoron shows his conflicted state
* feather of lead
* “feather” suggests that love schould be liberating
* “lead”brings about a heaviness
* TT oxymoron, state of turmoil, as this sense of pain is causing him pain and anguish.
* suggests that love is not living up to his expectations of love

Question 17

romeo paragraph 1

quote 2 & 3

Answer 17

continues to mimic petrachen soneteers
* “she hath Dian’s wit”
* mythical allusion to allusive Godess of virginity Diana
* empahsising her chasity and overall unattainability
* “fair
* fixated upon her physical beauty
* driven by more physical and sexual means

Question 18

romeo paragrpgh 1

quote 4

Answer 18

insincenrity is evident
* question
* “where shall we dine”
* sudden change in tone shows how quickly his trains of thoughts shift from rosaline
* love is presented as fickle and fleeting, implying that Romeo is experiencing infatutaion rather than genuine love
* although his melodramatic and immature behaviour would have provided comic relief for Shakespeare’s contemporary audience, perhpas wanted to make a deeper point about Romeo’s limited understanding of love, empahsing the lack of positive, loving role models in hate fuelled Verona for Romeo to look up to, leaving him with little option but to resort to the mimicking the language of the love poetry he has read

Question 19

Romeo paragraph 2

quote 1

Answer 19

ATPC… Romeo matures as a charcter replacing his infatuation for Rosaline with more sincere feelings for Juliet
* metaphor “holy shrine
* “holy suggests that she is pure are therefore spititually and morally superior
* as she is a “shrine” he worships her, an idolation that vrges on blasphemy for a predominatly Christian audience
* This sacreligious language could warrent divine retribution, as such the play could be interprested as a cautionary tale
* Shakespeare uses Romeo’s deification of Juliet, to warn the audience of the danger sof excessively passionate behaviour

Question 20

romeo paragrpah 2

quote 2

Answer 20

nonetheless, th compatibilty of Romeo and Juliet is emphasised through Juliet’s response
* “palm to palm gestural diaxis
* here Juliet intiaites physical contact, suggesting a sense of autonomy and consent
* Juliet is depicted as distinctivly different from the unrequinted distant muses in petrachen poetry
* Rather than abstracted blazon, Shakespeare depicts a symbiotic relationship-with minds meeting at the same time as hands ot words

Question 21

romeo paragraph 2

quote ….

Answer 21

• this is further reinforced through the use of the shared sonnet form
• the monosyllabic rhymes create a sense of harmony
• emphasisng the compatibility and dynamic energy between the couple
• allows reader to draw parallels to the prolouge, recalling that this fledging love is doomed to fail due to the toxic Violence, within verona
• the transcendent and all consuming love of Romeo for Juliet, heigtens th tragedy of thier death as they are needlessly and arbritarily seperated on accout of familial ties

Question 22

romeo pragrph 3

quote 1

Answer 22

impetuousness culminates to the death of Tybalt. The death of Mercrutio serves as a catalyst to his downfall as he falls victim to his harmatia and responds rashly in pursuit of vengance
* having commited murder, feels as though he has acted unwisley by becoming “fortune’s fool”
* fate is used as an easier scapegoat to blame to justify his reckless decisions
* begs the question as to whether it was truly the actions of fate or Romeo’s own imprudence and rashness taht brought about his downfall

Question 23

romeo paragrapgh 2

Answer 23

Clear the romeo’s actions are disctated by the societal expectations of masculinity within Verona where men are drawn into violence and acts of vengance for the sake of male bravado
* juliets beauty “hath made me effeminate
* adjective “effeminate” suggests that her lov has feminised and weakended him. Sugessting how he feels love has induced a sense of cowardice within him, reducuing his sense of Male bravado
* Here, Romeo represents how violence mbroils all aspects of society, as he quickly discovers that it is impossible to live by a world governed by hatred and violence

Question 24

romeo paragraph 2

quote 3

Answer 24

• romeo is shown to b overcome by his emotions
• exclamation “fired- eye fury be my conduct now!”
• dismissing any mercy or deliberation
• evolkes “fury” and rage, showing his desire to be ovrocme by passion
• perosnfication of fury being “fired-eyed” suggests how one is unable to see clealry, mirroring how Romeo wants to blinded and overcome by his rage
• Through Romeo’s banishment, Shakespeare uses him to critisise reckless and impulsive ehaviour, which has ngative consequences whether drivn by love or hate

Question 25

romeo pargraph 4 | quotes

Answer 25

ATE romeo is prsnted as a scarificial figure * plays the **"forfeit** * of capulet and Montague's** "enemity" ** prompting thir reconciliation and restoring of peace in Verona * his suicide reveals his depth of love for juliet **"the sun"** * metahorically th sun is used as a source of life for earth, mirroring how he depended on her for survival * shakespeare uses his tragic death to condemn the violence and the resultant futile squandering of young lives, which warning against immoderate, impetous behaviour

Question 26

fate intro

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* uses the play as a vhicle to debate the concept of free will verssu determinism * ultinamtely suggest that a pron's fate is usually self inflicted, brought about by rash and poorley considered decisions * sahespeare also explors the ways which character's fates can be taken out of their own hands as a result of the societal pressures of the woeld around them * as appears to be the case for Romeo and Juliet, whoe's parentage means they were born into a society brimming with violence and animosity * ceratibly for juliet as a women within a 16th century Elezabetjian societ, her fate was largely dictated by th men who governed her life and decisions * shakespeare implies taht fate is largely dictated by human choices, rather than being predestined celestial forces

Question 27

fate paragraph 1 | quote 1

Answer 27

in his prolouge, the eponymous characters Romeo and Juliet are introduced as **"a pair of star crossed lovers"** * the adjective **"star crossed"** implyis that thir romance is doomed from the start of the play, with their tragic futures determined prior to their first meeting

Question 28

fate paragraph 1 | quote2

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this oestensibily suggests that fate is conspiring against R+J * however the later referrence to their **"parents stife"** * empasisises that is this persistant antagonism that leads to their downfall, rather than cosmic forced

Question 29

fate paragraph 1 | quote 3

Answer 29

this is futher corroborated at the end of the play, when C+M finally reconcile their differences and Capulet laments that their children were **"poor sacrifices of our enemity"** * inclusive pronoun "my" he accepts responsibility, suggetsing that the tragic deaths of R+J were not steered bu invinvible, inescapable forces controlling thir fates, but by human action and their parent's obstinacy

Question 30

fate paragraph 2 | quote 1

Answer 30

* "fortunes fool" * laments having comminted the act he knew he had to commit all along: killing the man who killed his best friend * having commited murder, feels h has acts unwisley by playing into fate's hands * begs the question as to whether it was truley the pull of fate or Romeo's own imprudence and downfaal

Question 31

fate paragraph 2 | quote 2

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* exclamtion that **"juliet's beauty hath made me effeminate"** * "efeminate", feminised and weakened him, reducing his sense of male bravado * actions dictated by societal expencations * men are drawn into acts of violence and and vengance for the sake of male bravado

Question 32

fate paragraph 2 | quote 3

Answer 32

* death is predicated on his failure to recieve Friar Lawrences letter, outlining Juliet's feigned suicide. * Hoever doesn't take inot account the poorly considered human decions that ld to tis moment * both the idalism of the friar's plan and the rasness of Romeo led to th tragedy, allwoing shakespeare to advance his message that fate is often self inflicted due to a failure to moderate our behaviour and emotions

Question 33

fate paragraph 3 | quote 1

Answer 33

* contrastinglty Jliet seems to have very little power to dictate her own path * due to the limitations placed on women in Elizabethian Engalnd * "**i expext in all respects that she will b ruled by me"** * confidence that Juliet will submit to his authority * verb **"ruled"** position of dominace and control in her life, which is reiterated by the fact that we have seen Juliet's future discussed in her abscence

Question 34

fate paragrph 3 | qoute 2

Answer 34

* refusal to adhere to her fathers demands * ultimatum **"hag, beg, die in the streets"** * asyndetic list empasises the bleak lack of options availiable to women who challenged male authority and attempted to take ocntrol of their own desires within a patriachal scoiety * juliet is stipped of agency and autonomy to the extent she feels ending her life is the only option availible to her * However, made clear that this is a consequence of human action and societal control of women, rather than celestial forced that fated her to die

Question 35

fate paragraph 4

Answer 35

* use of dramatic irony by informing his audienc abou the untimley death of R+J * shakespeare affords his audience a platform to inttergograte the actions of the different characters that need to take accountability and recognise that all actions come with consequences.

Question 36

capulet

Answer 36

* vehicle to condemn the corruptive obsession with power and social standings, ultimatley causing Capult to lose his only daughter * throughout the play, is presented as a convulated charcter, who although oestensibly has good inetntions * in the openning lines of th play, Capulet is presnted as a loving father * origintaor of the feud

Question 37

friar into

Answer 37

* crtise those within socity who fail teh vunerable by proving poorly considered adive, even thos who have oestnsible good intentions * condemn the lack of role models within an elizabethian sociey * a mature and authorative figure, who advocates moderation * hoever as the play progresses, lik eevry other character in the play gets caught up in his dream * eventually leading to the deaths of romeo and juliet, * allowing shakespeare to critise rash and impulsive nature,highlighting how it often leads to stragic outcomes * at the end of the play, through the Friars refusal to accept towards responsibility and instead scapegoat of fate, Shakespeare

Question 38

frair p1

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* authoritive, infulential figure and matture character * "**young son"**, father * lack of role models in society * virtue turns to vice *

Question 39

frair p2

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* Thesis: As the play progesses Frair is presented as a failure, who eveenually ** * "in one respect i thy'll assistant be"** * facilitator of forbidden love * **"household rancour to pure love"** * **"we can find a time"** ambigious, unsuitable for romeo. R+J just pawns in his game

Question 40

friar p3

Answer 40

* failure to take direct responsibility, more concieted character * **"unhappy fortune"**, blames fate and not his convoluted, problmatic solution * "**i'll dispose of thee"** act of self preservation * **"i dare no longer stay"** abandoning those who are vunrable. Emotions of fear overpowered his morals as a leader * critisms of christanity and faith, prying on vunerable youngsters

Question 41

capulet p1

Answer 41

* "**fetch me my long sword ho"** * hypathoa, violnce is first instinct * long sword" ancient weapon, continuallu empasis of his age, is uss ironically as his behabiour is so immature * fulitlety of the feud

Question 42

capulet

Answer 42

* critissm of power, obession with power and need for preservation of social repuattion overshadows his love for his famiily, ultimatley naking him pay a price * lack of role models in veronana society

Question 43

capulet p2

Answer 43

relationship with juliet * "my will is but a consent to her part" * i expect in all respects that she will be ruled by me" * dominace * "hang beg starve die" * asyndetic list * bleak options provided * lack of care