Death and Foreshadowing

Question 1

General:

Answer 1

• The audience are told that Romeo and Juliet will die in the prologue.
• Death is mentioned throughout - there are many references and metaphors which foreshadows the end.
• Death and marriage are linked.

Question 2

Death and foreshadowing 1.1

Answer 2

‘(Prologue) A pair of star-cross’d lovers take their life.’

Question 3

Death and foreshadowing 1.5

Answer 3

‘(Juliet) If he be married, my grave is to be like my wedding bed.’

Question 4

Death and foreshadowing 3.4

Answer 4

‘(Friar Lawrence) Thou art wedded to calamity.’

Question 5

Death and foreshadowing 3.5

Answer 5

‘(Juliet) Methinks I see thee, now thou art below, As one did in the bottom of a tomb.’

Question 6

Death and foreshadowing 3.5

Answer 6

‘(Juliet) Delay this marriage for a month, a week / or, if you do not, make the bridal bed/ In that dim monument where Tybalt lies.’

Question 7

Death and foreshadowing 3.5

Answer 7

‘(Lady Capulet ) I would the fool were married to her grave.’

Question 8

Death and foreshadowing 5.1

Answer 8

‘(Romeo) I dreamt my lady came and found me dead, … but breathed such life with kisses in my lips, that I revived, and was an emperor.’