Juliet

Question 1

When we first meet Juliet she is presented by Shakespeare as…?

Answer 1

Confident, witty, with a mind of her own

Question 2

Capulet is initially a thoughtful and kind father, shown by his answer to Paris’ suit that…

Answer 2

His ‘child is yet a stranger in the world’ and ‘my will to her consent is but a part’

Question 3

Juliet has a formal relationship with her mother, calling her ‘Madam’ and saying [of the marriage proposal]…

Answer 3

‘It is an honour that I dream not of’

Question 4

the line, ‘it is an honour that I dream not of’ suggests…

Answer 4

Juliet is able to stay independent whilst seeming to be a respectful and dutiful daughter

Question 5

Lady C presents Paris as J’s potential suitor through an elaborate…?

Answer 5

Conceit - comparing Paris to a beautiful book

Question 6

Unlike Romeo who is relatively free to walk where he likes, Juliet is largely scene in domestic scenes apart from when she goes to…

Answer 6

Shrift (confession), showing Shakespeare’s awareness of the contrasting freedoms of young men and women in this period

Question 7

Juliet agrees she will ‘look to like’ but commits no further to anything with..?

Answer 7

Paris

Question 8

At the party in 1.5, Juliet spontaneously shares…?

Answer 8

A sonnet and a kiss with Romeo (their language and use of religious imagery is both elevating and romantic but also playful and witty )

Question 9

Juliet picks up Romeo’s imagery (‘ay, pilgrim ‘, showing their connection, as well as sharing …?

Answer 9

Lines

Question 10

Juliet successfully and wittily parries Romeo’s attempts to…’

Answer 10

Kiss her - ‘lips that they must use in prayer’/‘palm to palm is holy palmers kiss’

Question 11

In the rising action both Romeo and Juliet are like characters from a…?

Answer 11

Comedy - they are in love, but their parents object to the match

Question 12

From his first sight of her, Romeo compares J to a series of…?

Answer 12

radiant objects - torches, moon, stars etc

Question 13

Romeo’s use of light imagery and hyperbole creates an impression that Juliet is…?

Answer 13

Extraordinary…almost otherworldly in her beauty

Question 14

R’s language about Juliet contrasts with the negative and contradictory language he uses about…?

Answer 14

Rosaline, suggesting that Juliet has unlocked something for him

Question 15

In 2.2 (Balcony scene) Juliet is…?

Answer 15

Wary and anxious about Romeo’s safety

Question 16

Romeo is very poetic and exuberant but Juliet wants him to stop…?

Answer 16

Swearing and using poetic expression - instead asking for direct answers: ‘Do not swear at all’/‘Dost thou love me?’

Question 17

Juliet’s directness can be summed up in her contrasting language…eg?

Answer 17

‘if they (Capulet/his men) do see thee they will murder thee’

Question 18

Juliet uses a famous antithesis about her love for Romeo, linking it to…?

Answer 18

The feud: ‘My only love sprung from my only hate’

Question 19

When she declares her love for Romeo she compares is to…

Answer 19

‘The sea’ and says it is ‘infinite’

Question 20

Romeo and Juliet also see themselves as…

Answer 20

A falconer and a baby hawk (R calls J his ‘niesse’

Question 21

Juliet’s scene with the Nurse in 2.5 shows Shakespeare exploring the theme of…?

Answer 21

Age vs youth: J’s impatience contrasts with the Nurse’s tiredness

Question 22

J’s soliloquy (something which helps Shakespeare to develop her characterisation) is full of references to…and..?

Answer 22

Refs to time, classical allusions, references to age vs youth

Question 23

J compares the Nurse to an appropriately comic thing…what is it?

Answer 23

She wishes the Nurse were a tennis ball that her words could ‘bandy her’ to Romeo

Question 24

When the Nurse finally and after comic delays (which also reinforce the theme of age versus youth) tells J the plan for the wedding night, she makes yet another crude sexual reference…

Answer 24

To R climbing ‘a bird’s nest’ in the dark and J bearing ‘the burden (R) soon at night’

Question 25

These crude expressions of the Nurse remind the audience of the story of J that she endlessly tells/repeats, restarts about…?

Answer 25

J when she fell forwards when young and that she will ‘fall backwards’ when she knows better (i.e. into bed)

Question 26

Wedding scene 2.6 FL sees J and reinforces our sense from R’s language about her that she is…?

Answer 26

So beautiful as to be a bit otherworldly…’so light a foot’

Question 27

FL’s homily refers to R and J as…?

Answer 27

‘Powder and fire’ and makes references to time and love -‘violent delights have violent ends’

Question 28

When R is finally moved to fight in 3.1, he feels that J’s beauty has made him…?

Answer 28

‘Effeminate’ and blocked his courage, honour and ability to fight

Question 29

How effective is love (FL’s plan) at stopping the feud as shown in 3.1?

Answer 29

Not very, although R uses words of love towards Tybalt as a cousin, T rejects them and Mercutio calls them a ‘vile submission’

Question 30

3.2. Sees J’s second soliloquy but for the audience there is…?

Answer 30

Dramatic irony

Question 31

The second soliloquy in 3.2 is full of references to…

Answer 31

Time, classical allusions, apostrophes (‘Come night’), longing to lose her virginity with R, repetitions, romantic language ‘when I shall die/Take him and cut him out in little stars’, as well as slightly jarring refs to her as an ‘impatient child’

Question 32

The soliloquy in 3.2 is a kind of epithalamium or…

Answer 32

Wedding song

Question 33

J initially thinks R is…?

Answer 33

Dead, when the Nurse uses the pronoun ‘He’ rather than a name

Question 34

When J finds out that R has killed Tybalt (her ‘dearest cousin’), she uses antiheses to describe R as…?

Answer 34

‘O serpent heart hid with a flowering face’ and oxymorons: ‘damned saint’ showing her contradictory emotions

Question 35

When she speaks to her mother who is grieving for T, she uses ambiguous phrasing so that she seems to be..’

Answer 35

Condemning Romeo whilst actually praising him

Question 36

In 3.3 we see Romeo acting very similarly to Juliet…how?

Answer 36

Both want to die, are crying and exclaiming and using hyperbole

Question 37

As the play develops, R and J become…

Answer 37

More alike -as shown in parallel scenes and reinforced by the Nurse and FL

Question 38

3.4 see Capulet make a ‘desperate tender’ or offer of…?

Answer 38

Juliet’s hand in marriage to Paris (without first checking with her)

Question 39

From this point in the play (3.4) Capulet shifts into being a tyrannical patriarch, showing Shakespeare explores…

Answer 39

Both sides of the father/daughter relationship - positive and negative

Question 40

3.5 sees R and J’s last scene together before the scene in the tomb: they use…?

Answer 40

Contradictory language and antitheses - larks and toads, etc tonal shifts

Question 41

3.5 sees J using the ambiguous phrasing to her mother about Romeo eg…?

Answer 41

‘I never shall be satisfied/with R till I behold him - dead -is my poor heart for a kinsman vexed’ showing her wit and intelligence

Question 42

Capulet compares J to a…?

Answer 42

‘Conduit’ or fountain and a ship in rough seas because she cries so much

Question 43

Capulet calls J’s respectful refusal of the suit…?

Answer 43

‘Chopt logic’ and mocks her

Question 44

C uses abusive language about J…eg?

Answer 44

‘Mistress minion’ ‘baggage’, green-sickness carrion’ (misogynistic lang)

Question 45

Lady C and the Nurse are used to show that C is going too far…eg?

Answer 45

‘Are you mad’, ‘you are too hot’

Question 46

Capulet wants to hit J, saying…?

Answer 46

‘My fingers itch’

Question 47

J is framed by Shakespeare using pathos…

Answer 47

She kneels and says, ‘Is there no pity sitting in the clouds…’

Question 48

Capulet’s long monologue makes it sound as if it’s difficult to be a father with a daughter…eg?

Answer 48

‘Day, night, hour, tide, time..still my care hath been to have her matched’

Question 49

J uses exclamations to the Nurse after her father has left…?

Answer 49

‘O God!’O Nurse!’ But the Nurse replies counselling that she marry Paris (typically down to earth, pragmatic advice)

Question 50

When the Nurse calls R ‘a dishclout’ it is a crucial plot point as it…?

Answer 50

Estranges J from her last close support and makes her death more inevitable

Question 51

J calls the Nurse, ‘Ancient damnation’ and…?

Answer 51

‘A wicked fiend’

Question 52

4.1 sees Juliet increasingly using totally negative language and…?

Answer 52

Gothic language

Question 53

In 4.1 J sounds very similar to…?

Answer 53

Romeo, with the knife she carries and her refs to wanting to die

Question 54

J is what when the potion plan is proposed?

Answer 54

Brave but impulsive and hyperbolic

Question 55

In the ‘O bid me leap speech’ in 4.1., J uses lots of emotive language and refs to…

Answer 55

Gothic elements - ‘charnel houses’, ‘rattling bones’ ‘roaring bears’ etc

Question 56

When J appears to be reconciled to marrying P, Capulet says his…?

Answer 56

‘Wayward girl is…reclaimed’

Question 57

4.3 J’s final soliloquy features…?

Answer 57

Apostrophising (the vial -‘Come vial’, a knife, fears that FL has given her poison, an extended metaphor of the vault as a mouth, Gothic visions of mandrakes and fears that she will go mad and play with her ancestors bones

Question 58

J’s final scene - she is once again compared to…

Answer 58

Light

Question 59

She is brave, contrasting with the cowardly…?

Answer 59

FL, in an age vs youth reversal

Question 60

Her final words are brief because of time pressures (the watch is coming)…

Answer 60

‘o happy dagger…there rust and let me die’

Question 61

Montague offers to make a gold statue of J…

Answer 61

But this is more one upmanship

Question 62

In the final scene, the Prince calls it a…

Answer 62

‘Glooming peace’