Romeo and Juliet

• Why does Juliet feel conflicted?

  Because her parents want her to marry the partner they have chosen (Paris) but she is already married to Romeo and does not want to commit the sin of bigamy
• What does the quote “Juliet, I will lie with thee to-night” suggest about Romeo and Juliet’s love?

  That it’s so overpowering and uncontrollable that without Juliet he sees no reason to live
• What was Romeo’s first premonition (feeling that something bad is going to happen)? Give a quote

  Act 1, scene 4 when Romeo and mercutio are persuading Romeo to attend the capulet ball. “My mind mis gives some consequence yet hanging in the stars shall bitterly begin his fearful date”
• What is Romeo and Juliet’s post meeting premonition?

  “If he be married, my grave is likely to be my wedding bed”. this foreshadows Juliet’s death because her marriage to romeo leads of her suicide in the end
• What’s mercutios premonition?

  “A plague o’both your houses!” - both families suffer from the plague of hatred (lots of deaths by the end)
• What is the post marriage premonition?

  As Romeo goes down from Juliet’s bed chamber, Juliet says “I have an ill-divining soul, methinks I see the, now thou art so low, as one dead in the bottom of a tomb” foreshadows romeos fate in act 5
• Where is Romeo banished to?

  Mantua
• What was common for parents to arrange for their children?

  Marriages (arranged marriage)
• What did people in the Jacobean era believe about going against your family?

  It was like betraying god
• What did people think suicide and bigamy were?

  Mortal sins
• Why was still greatly linked despite science advancing?

  astronomy and astrology
• What character could be deemed a villain for killing mercutio and causing further tragedy?

  Tybalt
• What does the ’ancient’ grudge suggest about the family’s feuds?

  Nobody really knows the reason behind it anymore
• How does the play open?

  Sampson and Gregory (capulet servants) talking about how much they hate the montagues
• What do the capulets servants joke about? What does this highlight?

  Having sex with the montague women. This highlights how immature and childish these characters are.
• What do the servants from each family say to each other?

  ‘Bite‘ his ‘thumb’ at them and ‘frown at them’
• Who tries to break up the servants fight

  Benvolio
• Who immediately threatens to kill benvolio? What does this show

  Tybalt. This shows how aggressive he is
• What does the prince say to the families after breaking up the fight?

  “Enemies to peace” - if they fight in the street again they will be put to death
• What does benvolio talk to lord and lady montagne about?

  Romeo and why he has been distant lately and spending a lot a time on his own.
• Why has Romeo been acting distant lately?

  He is lovesick over Rosalin, Who does not share the feelings he feels about her.
• Who are the aggressive characters in act 1 scene 1?

  tybalt, Abra, Sampson, Balthazar and Gregory
• What does Sampson say in act 1 scene 1 and what does is trying to do?

  “I will bite my thumb at them, which is a disgrace to them, if they bear it” - he is provoking the servants of the montague family, basically swearing at them.
• How does Shakespeare show that the families loose their humanity and self control whenever they are near each-other at the start of the play?

  By using the servants as a demonstration
• What does Benvolio say to break up the fight? What is he implying?

  “Part fools! Put up your swords; you know not what you do” he implies that these men have not thought about the potential consequences of their actions
• how does benvolio act differently to tybalt?

  thinks before he acts (when telling the servants to stop fighting we can see this)
• What does tybalt say which shows how different he is to benvolio?

  “Peace! I hate the word, as I hate hell, all montague, and thee. Have at thee, coward!”
• Why does tybalt use the noun “coward”

  To try and make benvolio angry and provoke him into fighting
• What oxymoron does Romeo say in Act 1 scene 1 talking about his love for Rosaline? What does he mean?

  “O brawling love! O loving hate!” He feels love for Rosaline but is hateful, difficult love, because she does not return his feelings. He feels confused and does not know what to do because he loves Rosaline so much and she does not feel the same way
• What does the prince say after breaking up the fight, threatening both families?

  ”if ever you disturb our streets again, / your lives shall pay the forfeit of the peace”
• What does Romeo say as soon as he sees Juliet?

  “Did my heart love till now?”
• What does the quote “did my heart love till now” mean?

  He questions the love he felt for Rosaline as he recognises what he felt for her was not love, and Romeo is experiencing love at first sight
• What does tybalt say at the ball about a montague ?

  “This, by his voice, should be a montague. fetch me my rapier, boy. What dates the slave come hither”
• What does Juliet say about Romeo when she first sees him?

  “My only love sprung from my only hate!”
• What does the quote “my only love sprung from my only hate” mean?

  After finding out that the man she has fallen in love with is a montague, Juliet is devastated
• What does the quote “deny thy father and refuse thy name; / or, if thou wilt not, be but sworn my love, / and ill no longer be a capulet” mean?

  juliet complains sadly that romeo is a montague and wishes he could change this. She says she will stop being a capulet, and if frustrated that their family names will keep them apart
• What quote does Romeo say, saying that Juliet is the sun?

  “But soft! what light through yonder window breaks? / it is the east, and Juliet is the sun”
• What does romeo mean when he says Juliet is the sun?

  He suggests she brings light happiness and love to his life and without her, he feels that his life has no meaning.
• What does friar Laurence say, hoping to stop the family feud?

  “For this alliance may so happy prove, / to turn your households’ rancour to pure love”
• What quote from friar Laurence foreshadows Romeo and Juliet’s deaths?

  “These violent delights have violent ends”