friendship in r&j Flashcards
male friendship thesis
Shakespear presents the overbearing importance of upholding ones social nobility and pride as being the deciding factor between bachelor friendships and how easily the concept of hegemonic masculinity can dictate how men behave
male pride paragraph
- a plauge on both your houses
- under your arm
- ancient grudge
- calm dishonerable vile submission- list shows bewhilderment, loyalty as he steps in to romeos place in order to avenge his family and friends
friendship between adult and child paragraph
- romeo seeks out a father figure in the friar whom he does not have the comfortability with with his hard valued upper class paretns nor his masculine friends, romeo does not wholey abide to the friar showing he views him more as a confidant and friend
- theres a clear class differnce between the lady and lords and the nurse and friar that would not be crossed in elizabethan society
- romeo calls the friar ‘father’ which is a term typically reserved for clergy meaning that it could allude to how he sees the friar as a genuine parental guidance, similarly the friar refers to him as ‘son’
- theres a deep level of trust between the two, Romeo tells no one of his love as it is much purer and more sacred than his prior relationship but he informs the father showing trust and also shows how the friar is relgiosuly pure- the influence of religion and would show the audeince the fairness of romeo and julliettes affair/ importace of human relations
- in turn the friar is kind and helpful to romeo, asking god to ‘pardon sin’ when he learns of wrongs, he is secretive and caring- hes also trusted he knows that ‘romeo hath not been in bed’
- very similarly juliet and the nurse, her inferior in society, have a very trusted and loving relationship thats almost very casual through the nurses bawdy jokes- a contrast to the awkward relations between lady c and juliet
- the nurse views jeliet as a replacement for her own daughter susan and julliet certainly sees her in a motherly fashion
- often in elizabtthan england a wet nurse would stay with a girl and form a strong bond, the nurse si far more loyal to juliet than her employers- delivering messages back and forth from romeo against soceities will. ‘seek happy days to happy nights’
- theres a confusing mixture of parental language and also a sense of intense trust and loyalty- showing the betrayal of parents and the need for a figure of guidance and friendship
friendship age gap thesis
In the play there is a parralel of friednship between the nurse and juliet, and romeo and the friar, both of whom are viewed by their youthful compaion as both a figure of advice and a parental guidance but also a deeply trusted confidante- showing the importance of human relations even those that defy societal exceptations
masculine friendships neg thesis
Throughout the text shakespear presents the mass contrast of masculine friendship as fitting into the dual aspect of the play- the contrast between passion and reason as shakespear urges for people to persue their real human emotions regardless of their logic
theres a paradoxal issaue in the male friendships as many of the males act in rash and dislogical manners and yet their attidudes deparately warn their countrerparts from acting in a similar manner, with no one listening to their friends
masculine paradox paragraoh
- benvolio is a very clear symbol for the paradoxal issue of masculine friendship, he is seen in any summary as being a level headed man who does not partake in brawls and acts in amuch more reasoable way than his counterparts, hes seen to get involved in brawls to break them up, commanding ‘part fools’ between the early fights
- howevere ironically benvolios strong advice for his peers is not matched wholey by his own behaviors, indeed he openly steps into the heat of trouble when conducting the plan to sneak into the capulet ball, something that could easily end in violence, hes the first one to make the plan to wear masks showing hes not just complacent but active in creating drmaa and havoc. Shakespear warns against the hipocracy of benvolios attitude through the reprocussions as his arrival to the ball ultimately ends in the death of his two best friends
- romeo is enraged and in refual about his friends claims that he is naive and fickle and may see hiswan a crow’ when he discovers more women, however that evening he forgets rosaline and does not mention her again showing the paradoxal contrast between logic and passion
- even older men like the friar tell romeo that he has sinned and warns him that those ‘stumble if they run fast’ showing that rash decisions end in destruction- so he has the knoweleg and acts as foreshadoiwng- however he cannot follow his own advice and marries them against the sociteal issues it will cause
