Act I Scene IV

Question 1

Outline what happens in this extract

Answer 1

1. Benvolio, Mercutio and Romeo go to the ball
2. Queen Mab speech in response to Romeo being lovesick
3. Romeo foreshadows death

Question 2

Why does mercutio sarcastically use conventional images of petrarchan infatuation in the queen map speech?

Answer 2

To underline Romeo’s nieve view of love

Question 3

Give a quote from the queen mab speech

Answer 3

“She gallops night by night Through lovers brains, and then they dream of love”

Question 4

What tells us that Mercutio is an anti-romantic and doesnt believe in love?

Answer 4

in the queen Mab speech, he described love as a fantasy and a dreamscape people inhibit as they sleep. (not real)

Question 5

What quote shows Romeo’s foreshadowing of death and what does this quote refer to?

Answer 5

“Some consequence hanging in the stars”

This quote refers to the prologue “Star cross’d lovers”