Theme of love:

Question 1

How is sex represented in Romeo and Juliet?

Answer 1

Sex is paired with violence throughout Romeo and Juliet

Question 2

What does the sex between Romeo and Juliet represent ?

Answer 2

How even the sex between Romeo and Juliet brings violence between their families.

Question 3

The Nurse is forever making sexual puns and innuendoes. She repeats with relish her husband’s joke when the baby Juliet falls down:

‘’A was a merry man – took up the child.
‘Yea,’ quoth he, ‘dost thou fall upon thy face?
Thou wilt fall backward when thou hast more wit.
Wilt thou not, Jule?’ (I.3.41–4)
The point of the joke is, of course, that Juliet will lie on her back when a man makes love to her. The Nurse anticipates the sexual pleasures of Juliet’s wedding night with Romeo (II.5.75) and with Paris (IV.5.5–7) with the same glee. Why is this important?

Answer 3

Radiantly love is to be courtship but Shakespeare is represented it as crude and saying the only thing that matters between a man and a women is sex.

Question 4

‘From forth the fatal lions of these two foes’ What does the alliteration draw our attention to.

Answer 4

Fatal, Shakespeares creates a primary effect.

Question 5

“Heres much to do with hate, but more with love. “

Answer 5

-Juxtaposition.

Question 6

So shows a snowy dove tropping with crows.

Answer 6

This is Romeo describing Juliet.