Question

Read the excerpt from Act I, scene i of Romeo and Juliet. Romeo: Alas! That love, whose view is muffled still, Should, without eyes, see pathways to his will. 160 Where shall we dine? O me! What fray was here? Yet tell me not, for I have heard it all. Here's much to do with hate, but more with love: Why then, O brawling love! O loving hate! O any thing! Of nothing first create. 165 O heavy lightness! Serious vanity! Mis-shapen chaos of well-seeming forms! Feather of lead, bright smoke, cold fire, sick health! Still-waking sleep, that is not what it is! This love feel I, that feel no love in this. Dost thou not laugh? Which lines from the excerpt support the inference that Romeo is emotionally conflicted? Select 3 options. -Should, without eyes, see pathways to his will. -Yet tell me not, for I have heard it all. -O heavy lightness! Serious vanity! -Mis-shapen chaos of well-seeming forms! -Feather of lead, bright smoke, cold fire, sick health! -Dost thou not laugh?

Answer 1

Answer:

The three options which support the inference that Romeo is emotionally conflicted are:

- O heavy lightness! Serious vanity!

-Mis-shapen chaos of well-seeming forms!

- Feather of lead, bright smoke, cold fire, sick health!

Explanation:

These lines were taken from the famous tragedy by William Shakespeare, "Romeo and Juliet."

In Act I, Romeo makes it clear that he is sad and that time seems to pass slowly. The reason for that is his unrequited love. To show how emotionally conflicted Romeo is, Shakespeare makes use of a figure of speech called oxymoron, which is done by placing contrasting words together. In the three lines we have chosen, notice that the images and things Romeo describes are practically impossible. What is light is not heavy. What is serious is not vain. Smoke cannot be bright, and health cannot be sick. All those contrasting words show Romeo's emotional conflict.