love - theme

• (romeo speaking about rosaline in poetic sonnets, but uses fewer sonnets for juliet)

  shows he is maturing in how he loves people
• who are examples of platonic love?


  • mercutio to romeo
  • the nurse to juliet
  • friar lawrence to romeo and juliet
  • friar lawrence to both families
• how does friar lawrence demonstrate his friendship to romeo and juliet?

  • agreeing to marry them
  • supporting their marriage
  • helping hide romeo after being banished
  • planning juliets escape from paris and her parents (fake death)
  • trying to tell romeo the plan
  • helping juliet escape from the tomb
• "I have to love thee" (romeo)

  after romeo marries juliet he is now part of their family. when tybalt tries to provoke him into fighting he says this quote, as they are now family and should love and support each other
• when do we see the consequences of unrequited love?

  act 1
• when do we see true love and how deep this emotion is for romeo and juliet?

  act 2
• in which scenes does love cause unhappiness and death because of how strong it is?

  act 3, 4 and 5
• what do all forms of love have in the end?

  'negative ends'
• what are 4 examples of negative ends?

  • rosaline does not return romeos love
  • romeo and juliet commit suicide
  • nurse abandoning juliet and friar marrying the couple contribute to the deaths
  • the family feud is the overall cause for all the tragic ends of the protaganists
• what does the quite "violent ends" foreshadow (6 scenarios)

  • because of the marriage, romeo refuses to fight tybalt
  • because of romeo refusing, mercutio steps in to defend him
  • tybalt then kills mercutio in this fight
  • romeo becomes angry and goes after tybalt for revenge
  • romeo kills tybalt
  • romeo is banished. this means he cannot be with his wife or tell his family about their marriage
• what does the quote "violent ends" foreshadow (4 scenarios for juliet)


  • juliets parents arrange for her to marry paris
  • juliet doesnt want to commit bigamy and fakes her death
  • romeo thinks juliet is dead and kills himself
  • juliet sees romeo is dead and then kills herself