Love

Question 1

Alas, that love, whose view is muffled still

Answer 1

romeo about rosaline
alas - exclamitory expression of sorrow
muffled - dull, dim, stifling / choking

Question 2

A choking gall and a preserving sweet

Answer 2

choking - muffled, shows his struggle when it comes to love
oxymoron shows he’s confused
gall - context ( 4 humors, black bile, melancholy and depression )

Question 3

loves … heavy in my breast

Answer 3

romeo about rosyline
heavy - weighing him down, bound
image recurs when in act 1 scene 4 he talks about loves heavy burden

Question 4

love is a smoke made of the fumes of sighs

Answer 4

romeo about rosaline
can be linked to how he asaid its got a “muffled veiw”
smoke, fumes, mufffled, sighs, anchor, soul of lead - semenatic feild of hardship
this attitude to love is timeless, modern day readers can draw on the feeings of a petrachan lover that romeo omits

Question 5

loves light wings

Answer 5

romeo about love for juliet
contrasts to love felt with rosalyne

Question 6

stony limits can not hold love out

Answer 6

could be talking about physical stione wall of capulet household he had to climb to get yo juliets chamber or the stony wall that seperates the capulets and montegues often refered to as the ‘ancient grudge’
romeo about love for juliet

Question 7

My bounty is as boundless as the sea,
My love as deep; the more I give to thee,
The more I have, for both are infinite

Answer 7

juliet about romeo
shows lack of experience / how shes still a ‘bud’
shows sincirity
context - very shocking as woman were subservient during shakespearean times but here she is openly experessing her feelimgs for romeo

Question 8

[this love] is too rash, too unadvised, too sudden, too like the lightning, which doeth cease to be

Answer 8

Juliet youthful passion
she cautions him against swearing by the “inconstant moon”
and by saying that their lives may be extinguished after shining brightly like a bolt of lightning she is foreshaddowing the end

Question 9

These violent delight have violent ends … therefore love moderately

Answer 9

the priest also cautions against acts of haste and reckless passion
context- delphic maxim ( nothing in excess )

Question 10

‘we met, we woo’d, we made exchange of vow’

Answer 10

aristotle 3 unities
represent a theory of dramatic tragedy – time, place and action – concentrated plot
Maintains unity of action – forbidden lovers
time - over five days
Place – majority centred in Verona, but one scene of Romeo banished to Mantua

Question 11

two blushing pilgrims, ready stand

Answer 11

delphic maxim - rever the sacred
juliet to romeo

Question 12

god of my idolatry

Answer 12

delphic maxim - rever the sacred
juliet to romeo

Question 13

palm to palm is holy palmer’s kiss

Answer 13

Requited passion
guilty of both delphic maxims ‘nothing in excess’ and ‘revere the sacred’

Question 14

sin is purged

Answer 14

Fiercely Christian society ( Italy was Catholic and England Protestant )
Implies a warning against excess and blasphemy

Question 15

dear saint

Answer 15

shocks audience
delphic maxim - rever the sacrede