Question

Friar Laurence: These violent delights have violent ends, And in their triumph die, like fire and powder, Which, as they kiss consume: the sweetest honey Is loathsome in his own deliciousness And in the taste confounds the appetite: Therefore love moderately; long love doth so; Too swift arrives as tardy as too slow. What mood is created by the oxymoron and paradox in this excerpt?
A.excitement
B.chaos
C.hopefulness
D.seriousness

Answer 1

The answer would be C

Answer 2

It’s C. Hopefulness. Because they are about to marry Romeo and Juliet. And the only reason why he agreed to marry them because he thought that that would draw the families together and it would make them stop fighting.