romeo character profile

Question 1

What is his role in Romeo and Juliet?

Answer 1

A tragic hero

Question 2

Verona brags of him, bears him… - described as someone with self control and a sense of propriety

Answer 2

Verona brags of him, bears him like a partly gentleman.

Question 3

What is Romeos tragic flaw?

Answer 3

He falls in love too easily and is impetuous and impulsive

Question 4

Who outlines his flaw, give a quote?

Answer 4

The friar - “love moderately.”

Question 5

What two things does Romeos name mean?

Answer 5

Wandered and Palmer

Question 6

Sick… , “Cold…” and “Loving…”- shows his youth and idealised notions of romance

Answer 6

Sick health, “cold fire”, “loving hate.”

Question 7

Brawling… - shows love and violence is intertwined

Answer 7

Brawling love. - two key themes

Question 8

What verse does he speak in in comparison to how he speaks to Juliet? - shows his deep and true love for Juliet

Answer 8

Blank verse

Question 9

Vanity. - Who is this about and why?

Answer 9

Rosaline. Lack of real value, showing his love for Rosaline wasn’t truthful and just desire

Question 10

How does Romeo objectify Rosaline?

Answer 10

Never mentioning her as a person and just an appearance

Question 11

Not truly in … - shows young men (Romeo) love superficially and not in their hearts

Answer 11

Not truly in their hearts, but their eyes.

Question 12

Snowy… - symbolises innocence and peace. What else does the final word symbolise?

Answer 12

Snowy dove. - the goddess of love, sexuality and war.

Question 13

Rich jewel… - contrasts light and dark, and shows Juliet is precious and all over

Answer 13

Rich jewel in Ethiopes ear.

Question 14

True… - Romeo and “True…” - Juliet. Shows the love was honest and honourable, and links to courtly love.

Answer 14

True beauty. And “True Knight.”

Question 15

Holy… - shows the sacred love and how Juliet was godly and he was devoted and dedicated to her. What does this mean for the audience and conflict?

Answer 15

Holy shrine. - it’s blasphemous and he is now in conflict with religion

Question 16

What might be the symbolism of the blasphemy?

Answer 16

The gods are punishing them for it, fate and love

Question 17

Juliet is… - describes her as a celestial being, he can’t live without her and foreshadows his death

Answer 17

Juliet is the sun.

Question 18

Arise, fair sun.. - shows the goddess of virginity and how the gods are envious of their romance - contrasts light and dark

Answer 18

Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon.

Question 19

What is the moon as a goddess? What’s her name?

Answer 19

Diana

Question 20

I am… - impetuous and impulsive and feels fate controls him

Answer 20

I am fortunes fool.

Question 21

Adjective that describes him as losing his masculinity

Answer 21

effeminate.

Question 22

What two situations show the two sides to Romeo? Which conflict is this?

Answer 22

When he refuses to fight tybalt, then kills him after he slaughters mercutio- shows his conflicts with masculinity

Question 23

Why does his death seem effeminate?

Answer 23

He died without pain, and he died quietly and not fighting

Question 24

Her beauty makes… - she is a source of light in the darkness of the tomb

Answer 24

Her beauty makes/ This vault a feasting presence full of light.

Question 25

That unsubstantial… - dramatic irony as she isn’t dead , shows he died in passion

Answer 25

That unsubstantial Death is so amorous.

Question 26

How does Romeo speak of Juliet? Where does this link back to? What does it mean?

Answer 26

In sonnets and iambic pentameter - the prologue, intertwined fate and love

Question 27

What shows Romeo knows love by poems and books but not real life? “Thy love..”

Answer 27

Thy love did read by rote.

Question 28

You kiss… - Juliet thinks he’s a good kisser but lacks emotion

Answer 28

You kiss by th’book.

Question 29

Some consequence… - darkens atmosphere, fate is against him

Answer 29

Some consequence yet still hangs in the stars.