themes

Question 1

love

Answer 1

“O brawling love, O loving hate” - romeo
“Is love a tender thing? It is too rough,
Too rude, too boisterous, and it pricks like thorn”
“My life were better ended by their hate,
Than death proroguèd, wanting of thy love”
“My love as deep; the more I give to thee,
The more I have: for both are infinite” - juliet
“Look, love, what envious streaks” - romeo 3.5
“My only love, sprung from my only hate!” - juliet
“The reason I have to love thee
Doth much excuse the appertaining rage” - 3.1 romeo

Question 2

hate

Answer 2

“I do bite my thumb, sir”
“What, drawn, and talk of peace? I hate the word,
As I hate hell, all Montagues, and thee”
“O loving hate”
“My life were better ended by their hate”
“appertaining rage”
“O calm, dishonourable, vile submission!”
“Well, peace be with you, sir”
“fury of a beast”
“My only love, sprung from my only hate!”

Question 3

death

Answer 3

“Turn thee, Benvolio; look upon thy death”
“Poison hath residence”
“you shall find me a grave man”
“Mercy but murders, pardoning those that kill”
“Then, window, let day in, and let life out”
“Thus with a kiss I die”
“Come, bitter poison, come”
“O serpent heart hid with a flowering face”
“The fearful passage of their death-marked love”
“Once more, on pain of death, all men depart”
“My life were better ended by their hate,
Than death prorogued wanting of thy love”
“‘Zounds, a dog, a rat, a mouse, a cat, to scratch a man to death!”
“let me be put to death”

Question 4

fate

Answer 4

“star-crossed lovers take their lives”
“their children’s end, nought could remove”
“Wisely and slow: they stumble that run fast”
“This day’s black fate on more days doth depend:
This but begins woe others must end”
“O, I am Fortune’s fool”
“These violent delights have violent ends”
“Some consequence, yet hanging in the stars”
“she doth teach the torches to burn bright” - torches in the tomb
“O happy dagger…there rest and let me die” - both R + J have succumbed to their fate

Question 5

conflict

Answer 5

"therefore turn and draw"
"Do you quarrel, sir?"
"Thou villain Capulet"
"the reason I have to love thee
Doth much excuse the appertaining rage"
"A plague o' both your houses"
"For blood of ours shed blood of Mountague"
"ancient grudge"
"Uncle, this is a Mountague, our foe"

Question 6

masculinity

Answer 6

"Art thou a man?"
"Thy tears are womanish...
Unseemly woman in a seeming man"
"Out, you baggage"
"having now provided
A gentleman of noble parentage"
"Have at thee, coward"
"Boy"

Question 7

honour

Answer 7

"civil blood makes civil hands unclean"
"I will bite my thumb at the, which is a disgrace to them if they bear it."
"Of honourable reckoning are you both"
"by the stock and honour of my kin,
To strike hime dead I hold it not a sin"
"In my behalf, my reputation stained"
"both alike in dignity"

Question 8

treatment of women

Answer 8

“she is rich in beauty, only poor”
“she is too fair, too wise, wisely too fair”
“Ere we may think her ripe to be a bride”
“Younger than she are happy mothers made”
“bright angel”
“Unworthy as she is”
“Speak not, reply not, do not answer me!”
“Whiter than new snow”
“women grow by men”
“within her scope of choice”