forcefulness of love

• What is the most famous love story in the English literary tradition?

  Romeo and Juliet
• What is the dominant theme of Romeo and Juliet?

  Love
• What type of love does the play focus on?

  Romantic love
• How is love described in Romeo and Juliet?

  As a violent, ecstatic, overpowering force
• What do Romeo and Juliet defy in the course of the play?

  Their social world
• What does Juliet ask Romeo to deny?

  His father and name
• Who does Romeo abandon after the feast?

  Mercutio and Benvolio
• Why does Romeo return to Verona?

  For Juliet's sake
• How does Shakespeare portray love in the play?

  As a brutal, powerful emotion
• What does love in Romeo and Juliet resist?

  Any single metaphor
• How is love sometimes described in the play?

  In terms of religion
• What does Juliet say about her love for Romeo?

  It is too great to describe
• What does Romeo and Juliet portray about love and society?

  It portrays chaos and passion
• What elements does the play combine in its portrayal of love?

  Love, violence, death, religion, family
• What is the conclusion of Romeo and Juliet?

  A tragic conclusion
• What type of passion does Romeo and Juliet experience?

  Intense passion at first sight
• What does love in Romeo and Juliet do to individuals?

  Captures them against their world
• How does Shakespeare view the portrayal of love?

  He rejects a prettied-up version