Themes

Question 1

Death

Answer 1

Love leading people to death:
“Condemned villain, I do apprehend thee”
Honour leading people to death:
“Now by the name and honour of my kin, to strike him dead I hold it not a sin.”
Death is Inevitable:
“From forth the fatal loins of these two foes/ a pair of star-cross’d lovers take their life.”
“I fear to early for my mind miss-gives/ some consequence yet hanging in the stars/ shall bitterly begin this fearful date.”
“My grave is like to be my wedding bed”

Question 2

Love

Answer 2

Unrequited Love:
“Out of her favour, where I am in love”
“Well in that hit you miss, she’ll not be hit with Cupid’s arrow”
“This love I feel, I feel no love in this”
Parental Love:
“Thou wast the prettiest babe e’er I nursed”
“O, lamentable day”
“For Juliet’s sake, for her sake, rise and stand”
“She’s not fourteen”
“That’s my good son”
Friendship:
“My friend hath got his mortal hurt on my behalf”
“O Tybalt, Tybalt, the best friend I had”
“Vile submission” - Willing to fight for Romeo

Question 3

Violence

Answer 3

Opening with violence:
“Do you bite your thumb at us, sir?”
“Ancient grudge”
“Thrust his maid to the wall”
Violence + Love:
“O brawling love, O loving hate.”
“If love be rough with you, be rough with love”
“Thrust his maids to the wall”
Tybalt:
“Now by the name and honour of my kin, to strike him dead I see it not a sin”
“I hate all Montagues”
“Turn and draw”
“Peace? I hate that word”

Question 4

Fate

Answer 4

Fate of R+J’s deaths:
“A pair of star-cross’d lovers take their life”
“My grave is like to be my wedding bed”
“I fear to early for my mind miss-gives/ some consequence yet hanging in the stars/ shall bitterly begin his fearful date”
Fate can’t be resisted:
“Then I defy you, stars!”
“I could not send it”
Karma:
“Civil blood makes civil hands unclean”
“But thou slowest Tybalt”