Violence and conflict

Question 1

Prologue- foreshadows that the ‘ancient’ grudge’ affect civilians in Verona

Answer 1

‘civil blood makes civil hands unclean’

‘From ancient grudge break to new mutiny’

Question 2

Act 1 scene 1(Sampson)-extended metaphor of thumb biting resulting to violence
clear insult to the Montagues

Answer 2

‘I do bite my thumb,sir’

Question 3

Act 3 scene 1- Benvolio’s speech full of violent imagery after Mercutio’s death

Answer 3

‘slain’, ‘piercing steel’, ‘hit the life’, ‘envious thrust’,