romeo and juliet

Question 1

romeo start

Answer 1

bright smoke ,cold fire ,sick health

Question 2

romeo start analysis

Answer 2

courtly lover -obsession with rosaline /emotionally volitile character -list of oxymorons the established lover contrasts to feud - shakeshpere

Question 3

romeo middle

Answer 3

it is east and juliet is the sun

Question 4

romeo middle analysis

Answer 4

his true love for juliet sun-bright /hope
contrasts to rosaline -romeo is a petrachan lover
shakesphere shows his passion for j

Question 5

romeo at the end

Answer 5

will i set my everlasting rest and shake the yoke of inauspicious stars

Question 6

romeo end analysis

Answer 6

romeo is determined to die - impression created due to tone of dialouge and confidence towards dying - adjective everlasting -r is aware of permanance of death-modal verb - will- adds declarative nature -shakeshere does this to show extent of passion for j

Question 7

juliet start

Answer 7

riped to be a bride

Question 8

juliet start analysis

Answer 8

riped -compared to fruit objectifies her
voiceless and controlled by men -doesnt have a say - shakesphere shows how patriachal society limited womens say

Question 9

juliet middle

Answer 9

o swear not by the moon the inconstant moon

Question 10

juliet middle analysis

Answer 10

shows juliet is pragmatic -rather romeo use literal term /fustrated by r highly poetic lang -inconstant changing /unstbale -used to thinking of love in courtly not romantic -this is why r has a profound effect

Question 11

juliet end

Answer 11

oh happy dagger

Question 12

juliet end analysis

Answer 12

commitment driven her to desperation -suicide proves her passion for r -she must be with him in afterlife -oxymoron suggests shes happy to die -accosiated deadly weapon with joy -shakepher does this to show love can be deadly and to show j has been killed by her maturity -not to grow up too quick

Question 13

tybalt at the start

Answer 13

what drawn and talk of peace i hate the word as i hate hell all montegues and thee

Question 14

tybalt start analysis

Answer 14

shows tybalts hatred of peace -repitition of emotive verb hate to describe how he feels about peace -list of three-his detestation is that strong-compares hell to peace -extreme coparison given verona religious context /embodies fued -reluctant to see it end

Question 15

tybalt middle

Answer 15

king of cats

Question 16

tybalt middle analysis

Answer 16

tybalt is mocked because he shares a name from a character-ppl mocking him shows his bad reputation in verona
cats has connatations of sly-bad reputation in shakesphere time-partially responsible for black death associated with witches-tybalt embodies these negative qualitites

Question 17

mercutio middle

Answer 17

king of cats

Question 18

mercutio middle analysis

Answer 18

shows how mercutio i immature because hes engaging in playground name calling when mocking tybalt

Question 19

tybalt end

Answer 19

tybalt the kinsman of old capulet hath sent a letter to his house

Question 20

tybalt end analysis

Answer 20

contradicts tybalts violence at beggining .violence is soemwhat civilised cos he follows ettiquette. pronoun ‘his’ refferring to romeo . by formally inviting romeo to a jule instead of attacking him we see tybalt being civilised

Question 21

mercutio start

Answer 21

nay gentle romeo we must have you dance

Question 22

mercutio start analysis

Answer 22

mercutio is a supportive freind
the adjective gentle implies him and romeo have a close freindship . mercutios supportiveness reinfored when he insists romeo to dance at capulet ball-trying to cheer r up from roasline-model verb must shows romeo choice to dance isnt negitiable - shows mercutio as somewhat forceful

Question 23

benvolio start

Answer 23

part fools !put up your swords you know not what you do

Question 24

benvolio start analysis

Answer 24

imperitve verbs to put weapons down shows benvolio as a peacemaker-benvolio associates violence with ideocy -reinforces him being peaceful

Question 25

friar lawrence

Answer 25

poisen hath residence and medicine power

Question 26

friar analysis

Answer 26

shows his wiseness -shows natural world can both heal and harm -indirectly foreshadows the future things in the play -power-shows emphasises the significance of the meaning from what friar is saying

Question 27

nurse

Answer 27

nurse where is my daughter call her forth

Question 28

nurse analysis

Answer 28

lady c refers to nurse as her proffession instead of name putting her in position of servitude and reduces her autonomy -bossed around and dehumanised -audience can sympathise with her - nurse is more maternal to j compared to lady c

Question 29

lady c

Answer 29

nurse wheres my daughter call her forth to me

Question 30

lord c

Answer 30

riped to be a bride

Question 31

lord c

Answer 31

my fingesrs itch- threatans j when she disobeys that he is wants to be violent towards her at this moment
way of saying you wanted to slap someome-makes his extreme dispeasure known-resorts to violence when he doesnt get his own way -aggressive bully