english- romeo + juliet

Question 1

Romeo

Answer 1

• first impression- romeo is a meloncholy boy, young immature suffering from unrequited love**‘shuts up his windows, lock his fair daylight **
• ‘griefs of mine own lie heavy in my breast’-metaphorshows his misery
  -youth

Question 2

development of romeo

Answer 2

-mature romeo- Act 3 scene 1- walks away from conflict **‘i do protest i never injured thee’ **
**-his manner changes when realising mercution is dead’thy beauty hath made me effeminate’
-his response to being banished he uses death imagery

Question 3

Juliet

Answer 3

-first impression- shakespeare emphasises juliets youth
she doesnt want to get married’it is honour that i dream not until she meets romeo’
-her feelings for romeo- religous imagery-** ‘for saints have hands that pilgrims hands do touch/ and palm to palm is holy palmers kiss **
-she describes her love as ‘deep and ‘infinite’ shows she doesnt know much about love
- she is very obediant answers in short answers- until she meets romeo

Question 4

juliets development

Answer 4

-when finding out about tybalts death she replies in short sentance and using repition’o break heart. poor bankrupt, break at once’
-rhetorical questions and oxymorons-‘ ‘beautiful tyrant’oxymoron
-juliet is often alone-act** 2 scene 5 act 3 scene 2 and act 4 scene 3**
-when expressing how she wants to be with romeo she becomes headstrong showing how in love she is act 4 scene 1-threatens to kill herself
-presented in the final act –she refuses to leave the friar

Question 5

Mercutio

Answer 5

rude humour would have been popukar with the audience
-repats what romeo says changing words forming sexual innuendos’under love’s heavy burden i sink’//’and to sink in it, should you burden love too great opprezsion for a tender thing’

Question 6

tybalt

Answer 6

-presented as aggressive- first words ‘ what art thou drawn among heartless hinds’animal i agery suggests he was threatening them
how does shakes speare establish tybalts grudge

Question 7

when was it written

Answer 7

-written in 1595
-italy was considered a very fashionable place by the english and it had a reputation for passionate people and violent family rivals

Question 8

how does the story reflect elizabethan englad

Answer 8

• a commen situation from the time- the audience can relate
• ## when shakespeare was writing the play, there were lots of riots protesting againts high taxes and lack of food- influences scenes where capulets and montagues fight on the streets of verona

Question 9

how might the play affected by the expectations of elizabethan theatre

Answer 9

-rowdy audience
rude comedy such as sexual inneuendos

Question 10

lord and lady capulet

Answer 10

-lord capulet is presented as aggressive’give me my long sword.. my sword i say’
-protective of his daughter ‘my child is yet a stranger in this world
lady capulet-irresponsible with her daughter’well think on marriage now
-lady capulet changes becoming aggressive after tybalts death