Essay 3 ( Juliet and mother relationship + Lack of understanding ) Flashcards
What do Juliet and her mother’s interactions reveal to the audience about their relationship at this point in the play?
6 - 8 quotes
'Tell me, daughter Juliet' 'Here in Verona' 'I was your mother much upon these years' 'A man, young lady! Lady, such a man' 'Volume of //Written in // Unbound Lover // Cover' 'Gold clasps' 'Women grow by men' 'Your consent'
‘Tell me, daughter Juliet’
‘Daughter’ -> Reminds of Juliet’s filial duty
Imperitive-> ‘Tell me’ unloving + cold
Relationship = dutiful, cold?
‘Here in Verona ‘
Hints at corruption in Verona —-> young women married off to old men uno
Juliet’s mother -> perpetuates the corruption by reminding Juliet of the institutionalised beliefs of women
Juliet = different to her mother
irreconcilable differences?
’ I was your mother much upon these years’
Reminds of duty
Limits Juliet’s prospects to that to just become a mother, have children
‘A man, young lady! lady,such a man’
Exclaimed repeated phrase, statement of a man, juxtapostion of lady and man
-> nurse = breathless excitement at Paris
Excited for Juliet’s potential happiness
Nurse = foil for mother, more loving reltionship, who Juliet will listen to
‘Volume of, Written in, Unbound lover etc’
Mother metaphorically links Paris to like a book
Trying to get Juliet to like him?
Using romantic language to persuade her?
(Nurse undercuts this with language Juliet will relate more to)
‘Gold clasps’
Mother favours Paris’ wealth rather than his personality,
Husband = commodity
‘Women grow by men’
Nurse undercuts mother’s speech / power over her daughter
Duaghters duty is to have children
Both remind Juliet of this
‘Your consent’
Will do whatever mother says
Is dutyful daughter
Loses this when she meets Romeo
How is the relationship presented?
Juliet = submissive and dutiful daughter
Mother’s formal and cold speech is undercut by nurse’s bawdy humour
How Shakespeare present the lack of understanding between the older and younger generations?
(4 Paragraphs)
- Through the perpetuated violence
- Through the view on marriage
- Juliet + mother / parents
- As a positive thing for future generations
Quotes for lack of understanding presented through violence
‘Draw, if you be men’
‘Peace! I hate the word’
’ Draw, if you be men’
- Conditional, threatening conjunctive
- Taunts opposition -> ultimate goal = manly, ultimate diss = womanly
- Don’t understand why they are fighting anymore, violence for the sake of violence + pride
Lack of understanding = younger generations not thinking for themselves anymore or fighting for the feud just fighting for fighting?
‘Peace! I hate the word’
- Sibilance hissing sound
- Peace is something new and unnatural to Tybalt?
- The perpetuated violence has caused the younger gen. to grow up doing things for the sake of it?
- perpetuate endless cycle of violence could show no lack of understanding or a lack of understanding of why the violence is occuring
Quotes for lack of understanding presented through beliefs on marriage!
’ think of marriage now ‘
‘shall have the chinks’
‘holy shrine’
