Context Romeo Juliet

Question 1

Social and historical context

Answer 1

Elizabethan believed that god set an order of the great chain of being. Elizabethans were very superstitious

Question 2

The great chain of being is….

Answer 2

A social order that god created a where everybody belonged ( eg: king, queen, farmer, butcher). If disobey the monarch it’s a sin which kept everything in order.

Question 3

Patriarchy society

Answer 3

Where an individuals or individual are more superior and ruling than others.

Question 4

Elizabethan view of marriage

Answer 4

Women belonged to fathers then to their husbands. Women can’t own their own property. One reason why queen Elizabeth 1 did not marry as she did not want to give up her power to a man. Only exception was widows. Women can marry at 12 (tho mostly women from wealthy families).

Question 5

Superstition and supernatural

Answer 5

Fairies were a source of fascination, fear, evil, superstition and mystery among the people of the 16th century. Fairy belief was important to commoners.

Question 6

One theory fo fairy is….

Answer 6

Fallen angels (popular with Scottish and Irish)

Question 7

Second theory of fairy is….

Answer 7

Fairies are a source of the pagan dead destined to life of undead on earth

Question 8

The theory and beliefs of fairies were…

Answer 8

A societal issues. Ideas that they’re human like but less than human as they’re isolated and mirrored worries of discovery of aliens.

Question 9

Worries of fairies in society

Answer 9

Change and growth on children as fairies were thought to be controlled by emotions and impulse ; sometimes exact revenge on people, evil and mischievous

Question 10

Queen Mab

Answer 10

Tiny fairy that rides around in a coach made of an ‘empty hazlnut’ with spider ‘legs’ of wheel spokes, driven by an even tinier ‘grey coated gnat’ and drawn by ‘team of little atomi’.