Themes Flashcards

All 16 cards in this deck

Love: whom does Romeo forget the moment he sees Juliet?

Rosaline.

Love: who warns that “These violent delights have violent ends”?

Friar Lawrence, just before the wedding (Act 2 Scene 6).

Love: which character speaks the Queen Mab speech, mocking dreams of love?

Mercutio (Act 1 Scene 4).

Conflict: which character says he hates peace as he hates hell?

Tybalt (Act 1 Scene 1).

Conflict: what insult does Sampson use to provoke the Montague servants?

He bites his thumb at them (Act 1 Scene 1).

Conflict: what does Tybalt call Romeo to provoke him in Act 3 Scene 1?

A villain.

Fate: what does the Prologue call Romeo and Juliet?

A pair of “star-cross’d lovers”.

Fate: who senses some consequence “hanging in the stars” on the way to the feast?

Romeo (Act 1 Scene 4).

Fate: which chance event stops Romeo learning of the Friar’s plan?

The plague quarantine that holds Friar John.

Family: what does Capulet threaten if Juliet will not marry Paris?

To throw her out to “hang, beg, starve, die in the streets”.

Family: who says Juliet may choose for herself in Act 1 Scene 2?

Capulet, telling Paris to win her heart.

Youth and age: who warns Romeo “they stumble that run fast”?

Friar Lawrence (Act 2 Scene 3).

Death: whom does Capulet call his son-in-law when Juliet seems dead?

Death (Act 4 Scene 5).

Light and dark: whom does Romeo compare to the sun?

Juliet: “Juliet is the sun!” (Act 2 Scene 2).

Honour and masculinity: who calls Romeo’s refusal to fight a “vile submission”?

Mercutio (Act 3 Scene 1).

Religion: where does Juliet go, claiming she needs to confess, to find a way out of the marriage?

Friar Lawrence’s cell (Act 4 Scene 1).