Romeo and Juliet - Quotes

Question 1

Romeo:

‘ Under love’s ……… ‘

Answer 1

‘ heavy burden do I sink ‘
~love weighs him down - unrequited love/ courtly love
- personification of love as a burden
- under foreshadows death - it is controlling

Question 2

Romeo:

‘ it is the …… ‘

Answer 2

‘ east and Juliet is the sun ‘
~ courtly love - man praises woman
- metaphor - people need the sun , and Romeo needs Juliet
- Juliet is on a balcony - she is closer to the sun and heaven
- Juliet has a powerful presence

Question 3

Romeo:

‘ oh I am …..’

Answer 3

‘ fortune’s fool ‘
~ people blaming fate on their actions
- blames fate for Tybalt’s death- no responsibility
- fool describes a jester in those times - jester is there to entertain therefore Romeo must be entertaining Fate
- fortune is playing with him - like a game

Question 4

Romeo:

‘ with love’s light ….’

Answer 4

‘ wings did I o’er perch these walls ‘

• people not being able to choose their partners - alliteration ‘l’
• love makes him do the impossible
• walls - barriers - family feud
• personification of love

Question 5

Juliet:

‘ he shall not make me there ….’

Answer 5

‘ a joyful bride ‘
~ marry twice meant damnation
- women were expected to be passive and obedient
- Juliet stands up to her father - assertive that she won’t marry Paris
- shall is a modal verb
- talking to her mum about Paris

Question 6

Juliet:

‘ come gentle night […] give ….. ‘

Answer 6

‘ me my Romeo ‘
~ marriage isn’t complete until consummated
- give - imperative verb
- waiting for Romeo to come for their wedding night - after Tybalt’s death
- speaks about Romeo positively

Question 7

Lord Capulet:

‘ an you be mine, I’ll give you. To my friend; and you be not, hang …..’

Answer 7

‘ beg, starve, die in the streets ‘
~ children seen as property
- women financially dependant on their fathers
- list ~ one syllable words

Question 8

Lady Capulet:

‘ I would the fool …’

Answer 8

‘ were married to her grave’ 
~ women were expected to be passive 
- her mother follows the stereotype, Juliet doesn’t 
- wishing Juliet death
- harsh ~ doesn’t defend Juliet 
- distant family relationships

Question 9

Mercutio:

‘ O calm, dishonourable…..’

Answer 9

‘ vile submission ‘ ~ defending family honour

• masculinity means not accepting any insult
• talking about Romeo because he doesn’t want to fight Tybalt
• expects Romeo to fight

Question 10

Benvolio:

‘ part fools ! Put up …’

Answer 10

‘ your swords. You know not what you do ‘

• thinks the feud is stupid
• benvolio is a peacemaker

Question 11

Tybalt:

‘ Peace ! I hate the word …’

Answer 11

‘ as I hate hell all montagues and thee.

• aggressive, villainous character
• hates hell and peace
• he thinks peace is stupid

Question 12

Friar Lawrence:

‘ households rancour ….’

Answer 12

‘ to pure love ‘

• rancour means hatred
• foreshadows the end of the feud
• naïve - thinks marriage will end the feud and doesn’t consider possibilities to if it will happen or not

Question 13

Nurse:

‘ you are to blame my lord… ‘

Answer 13

‘ to rate her so ‘

- defends Juliet

Question 14

Prince:

‘ three….. ‘

Answer 14

‘Civil brawls, bred of an airy word ‘

• the families are fighting over nothing
• street fights in England and Italian being hot headed

Question 15

Prince:

‘ you men, ….’

Answer 15

‘ you beasts ‘

• the men are uncontrollable
• whatever they have done is horrible
• untamed characteristics
• being manly meant never accepting an insult
• England had street fights and Italians were hot headed

Question 16

Juliet:

‘ my bounty is as ….’

Answer 16

‘ boundless as the sea ‘

• her love can’t be measured. ~ ‘as boundless as the sea’
• courtly love
• people at the time we not able to choose their partners
• simile ~ moving too fast
• links the passion in their relationship

Question 17

Capulet:

‘ let two more summers wither in their pride, ere we may think her …’

Answer 17

‘ ripe to be a bride ‘

• marriage was seen as a business arrangement
• marriages needed parental consent
• children were seen as property
• Capulet thought Juliet was too young to get married ( 13 at the time )

Question 18

Lady Capulet:

‘But she will none ….’

Answer 18

‘ she gives you thanks ‘

• Capulet thinks Juliet is being disobedient ~ doesn’t want to marry Paris
• use of dramatic irony ~ we know Juliet is already married
• marrying twice meant damnation at the time

Question 19

Capulet:

‘ disobedient …’

Answer 19

‘Wretch ‘

• ‘wretch’ ~ someone who is unfortunate ~ implies that Capulet calls Juliet bad luck. - links to fate
• ‘disobedient’ ~ adjective used to describe Capulet’s anger coz Juliet disobeys him
• Juliet testing her father’s role as head of the family

Question 20

Capulet:;

‘Young …..’

Answer 20

‘Baggage ‘

• metaphor used to describe Juliet as a burden
• links with children being seen as property
• baggage is portable ~ links to women being financially dependant on their fathers and then husbands ~ links to ‘ I’ll give you to my friend’ quote

Question 21

Prince:

For never was a story of more woe than…..

Answer 21

this of Juliet and her Romeo

• no other tale has been as sad as this
• tragedy
• woe: great sorrow or distress

Question 22

Juliet:

What’s in a name? That which we call a rose,By any other……

Answer 22

word would smell as sweet

• Juliet has modern ideas ~ your name does not define you
• in her time the family you come from sets out how people viewed you

Question 23

Juliet:

Good Night, Good night! Parting is such ……..

Answer 23

sweet sorrow, that I shall say good night till it be morrow

• ‘sweet’ they next time they meet will be their wedding day
• Juliet expresses her sorrow of being away from Romeo

Question 24

Gregory:

‘Do you bite your……

Answer 24

thumb at us, sir?

• insult
• males cannot accept an insult
• male aggression

Question 25

Prologue:

‘A pair of star-crossed……

Answer 25

‘Lovers take their life’

• fate
• tragedy

Question 26

Prologue:

‘ their death……

Answer 26

‘Mark’d love ‘

- tragedy

Question 27

Romeo:

‘Brawling love! O ……

Answer 27

loving hate! ‘

• oxymoron
• talking about Rosaline

Question 28

Romeo:

‘Feather of lead, bright smoke……

Answer 28

Cold fire, sick health!

• talking about Rosaline
• oxymoron

Question 29

Lord Capulet:

‘ my child is yet a…..

Answer 29

Stranger in the world’

• talking about Juliet being to young to get married
• stranger ~ too young

Question 30

Lord Capulet:

‘ my will to her consent …..

Answer 30

Is but a part’

- gives Juliet consent

Question 31

Juliet:

‘My only love sprung……

Answer 31

From my only hate! ‘

• talking about Romeo
• when she fights out he is a Montague
• family feud separates them

Question 32

Friar Lawrence:

‘To turn your households’ ….

Answer 32

Rancour to pure love’

• Friar Lawrence thought the marriage would end the feud ~ naïve
• didn’t think it through

Question 33

Friar Lawrence:

‘Young men’s love then lies/ not truly in their hearts…..

Answer 33

But in their eyes’

• men are more concerned with women’s looks
• Friar Lawrence talking to Romeo

Question 34

Mercutio:

‘A plague…..

Answer 34

O’ both your houses’

• curse on both houses
• he is blaming the feud for his death

Question 35

Juliet:

‘He shall not make …..

Answer 35

There a joyful bride’

• sure of herself
• doesn’t want to marry Paris

Question 36

Romeo:

‘Tybalt that an hour hath ………

Answer 36

Been my Kinsman’

• the conflict has caused Romeo to get married in secret
• Shakespeare’s show that the conflict has led to lots of secrecy

Question 37

Mercutio:

‘They have made…..

Answer 37

Worms meat of me’

• Mercutio lost the fight between him and Tybalt ~ he has lost his honour
• Mercutio is loyal coz he stands up for Romeo

Question 38

Romeo:

‘ o sweet Juliet, thy beauty hath….

Answer 38

Me effeminate’

- this shows Romeo has become weak