Romeo and Juliet

Question 1

LOVE: Astrological imagery (2)

Answer 1

ACT 2 SCENE 2
Juliet is the “sun”
Her eyes contain “two of the fairest stars in the heaven”

Question 2

LOVE: Contrast of other characters to Romeo

Answer 2

Sampson - ACT 1 SCENE 1

He talks about “thrust[ing] maids to the wall”

Question 3

LOVE: Romeo’s true intentions with Juliet (2)

Answer 3

ACT 1 SCENE 1
Rhymes “waste” with Mercutio saying “chaste”
ACT 2 SCENE 2
Says virginity is “sick and green” and says Juliet should “Cast it off!”

Question 4

LOVE: Romeo’s oxymoron

Answer 4

ACT 1 SCENE 1
“O brawling love! O loving hate!”
He speaks of love as something so powerful that has thrown the universe of its axis and has left him speaking in exclamatives

Question 5

FATE: Prologue (2)

Answer 5

PROLOGUE
“star-crossed lovers”
14 lines = Sonnet

Question 6

FATE: Romeo + (2)

Answer 6

ACT 1 SCENE 4
“Some consequences yet hanging in the stars”
“But He, that hath the steerage of my course, direct my sail!”

Question 7

FATE: Romeo -

Answer 7

ACT 5 SCENE 1

“I defy you stars!”

Question 8

CONFLICT: The two families

Answer 8

PROLOGUE

An “ancient grudge” has caused conflict between the two households

Question 9

CONFLICT: Mercutio (2)

Answer 9

ACT 3 SCENE 1
The men fight for their honour and family - Romeo try’s to make peace with Tybalt but Mercutio calls him “Dishonourable” and “draws”

Question 10

CONFLICT: Romeo fight (2)

Answer 10

ACT 3 SCENE 1
To Tybalt, “Either thou or I, or both, must go with him”
[kills Tybalt] “O I am fortune’s fool” shows his naivety.

Question 11

CONFLICT: Romeo love

Answer 11

ACT 1 SCENE 1

Mental conflict through oxymorons “O brawling love! O loving hate!” Shows his conflicting thoughts

Question 12

CONFLICT: Tybalt honour

Answer 12

ACT 1 SCENE 5

“By the stock and honour of my kin, to strike him dead I hold not a sin”

Question 13

CONFLICT: Tybalt hate for Montagues

Answer 13

ACT 1 SCENE 1

“Peace? I hate the word, as I hate hell, all Montagues, and thee”

Question 14

POWER: Prince is not a good leader (2)

Answer 14

ACT 3 SCENE 1
“Who are the beginners of this bloody fray?”
“Where the vile beginners of this fray?”
Repeats interrogatives which shows he knows nothing and nobody respects him

Question 15

POWER: Prince is a coward

Answer 15

ACT 3 SCENE 1
“Nor tears, nor prayers shall purchase out abuses”
Seems ruthless but he doesn’t stick to his word and only exiles Romeo

Question 16

RELIGION: Friar ignores his mistakes

Answer 16

ACT 5 SCENE 3

“I dare no longer stay”

Question 17

RELIGION: Friar wanted goodness

Answer 17

ACT 2 SCENE 3

He thought their marriage would turn “rancour to pure love”

Question 18

GENDER: Nurse

Answer 18

ACT 1 SCENE 3

“Women grow by men”

Question 19

Gender: Capulet exclamatives

Answer 19

ACT 1 SCENE 1

“Give me my long sword, ho!”

Question 20

Gender: Capulet imperatives

Answer 20

ACT 3 SCENE 4

“Wife, go you to her”

Question 21

When was Romeo and Juliet written?

Answer 21

The Elizabethan era / the 16th century

Question 22

What type of writer was Shakespeare?

Answer 22

A renaissance writer