Juliet Flashcards
Relationship with mother
“Madam”, “mother” - A1S3
Cold and formal relationship with LC, not close, no mother-daughter bond
Sacrifice relationship with family to be with Romeo
“Deny thy father and refuse thy name…be but sworn my love And Ill no longer be a Capulet” - A2S2
Love for Romeo is already very strong, willing to disown family just be with Romeo
Wishes Romeo was not a Montague
“Though not a Montague. What’s Montague? Nor arm nor face, nor any other part Belonging to a man”, “O be some other name! Whats in a name”, “Romeo, doff thy name” - A2S2
Wishes he wasn’t a Montague and wants him to leave the name behind; his family name doesn’t define him
Asks if Romeo loves her
“Dost thou love me? I know thou wilt say Ay And I will take thy word”, “O gentle Romeo, If thou dost love, pronounce it faithfully” - A2S2
Tells Romeo to declare his love for her
The moon
“Oh swear not by the moon, the inconstant moon That monthly changes” - A2S2
The love between them would diminish and change, like the phases of the moon
Romeo is her God
“Thy gracious self, Which is the God of my idolatry” - A2S2
Blasphemy, replaces God with Romeo, her lord
Juliet’s love
“My bounty is as boundless as the sea, My love as deep; the more I give to thee, the more I have, for both are infinite” - A2S2
Her love for Romeo is eternal, never-ending, as large as the sea, and will only continue to grow
Annoyed that Nurse hasn’t returned, impatient
“The clock struck nine when I did send the Nurse, In half an hour she promised to return”, “O she is lame!”, “Three long hours yet she is not come”, “Old folks, many feign as if they were dead, unwieldy, slow, heavy, and as pale as lead”, “Is thy news good or bad…Let me be satisfied, is it good or bad” - A2S5
She is anxious and impatient for information and for the Nurse to return - is angry that she is still not back
Makes fun of old people
Addressing the Nurse
“O honey Nurse!”, “good sweet Nurse”, “good good Nurse”, “Sweet sweet sweet Nurse” - A2S5
Loving tone - contradicts cold tone between LC and J, this is more close, warmer relationship
Motherly figure, replacing LC
Desperate for news about Romeo
“What devil are thou that dost torment me thus?”, “Hath Romeo slain himself”, “If he be slain, say ay, or if not, no”, “Is Romeo slaughtered, and is Tybalt dead” - A3S2
Rhetorical questions repeated show nervousness and desperation
Romeo > Tybalt
“My dearest cousin, and my dearer lord” - A3S2
Superlative vs comparative - rejects family, loyal to Romeo, put him higher than her family
Angry at Romeo
“O serpent heart, hid with a flowering face”, “Beautiful tyrant, fiend angelical”, “Dove feathered raven”, “Despised substance of divinest show”, “Just opposite to what thou seemed”, “A damned saint, an honourable villain”, “Book containing vile matter so fairly bound”, “Deceit dwelling in a gorgeous palace” - A3S2
- Oxymorons used to show two faced nature of Romeo - outside is good vs inside is evil
- Conflicted mind - whether to trust and love Romeo or not
- Regretful, resentful, and conflicted tone
- Assumed that he was good because he looked good (physiognomy)
Her loyalty still lies with Romeo
“Shall I speak ill of him that is my husband?” - A3S2
Conflicted, even though she knows he is two-faced, she cannot be without him, shows bond they have
Reaction to banishment
“That banished, that one word banished”, “Will be rank with other griefs”, “ ‘ Romeo is banished’ to speak that word is father, mother, Tybalt, Romeo, Juliet, all slain, all dead”, “There is no end, no limit, measure, bound” - A3S2
Repetition shows shock and she is unable to take it in, banishment worse than all her family dead (Romeo > family)
Doesn’t want Romeo to leave her
“Wilt thou be gone? It is not yet near day”, “Therefore stay yet, thou needst not to be gone”, “O thinks thou we shall ever meet again?”, “I hope thou [Fortune] will not keep him long” - A3S5
In denial, doesn’t want to be without Romeo
Questions if they will see each other again
Powerless in the household
“Good father I beseech you on my knees Hear me with but to speak a word” - A3S5
Has to beg for permission to speak, shows her lack of power
Rational and calm, mature compared to elders
Would die rather than marry Paris/be without Romeo
“I long to die…if what thou speaks not of remedy”, “O bid me leap off…the battlements of any tower”, “O give me, give me! O tell me not of fear “ - A4S1
Death is her remedy, better option than marrying Paris
Foreshadowing before taking the potion
“Farewell! God knows when we shall meet again”, “I wake before the time Romeo comes”, “die ere my Romeo comes” - A4S3
Suspecting of the Friar
“What if it be a poison which the Friar hath ministered to have me dead?” - A4S3
Suspecting of the Friar - he is not to be trusted - administered ‘illegal’ marriage
Repercussions of potion
“What if it be a poison?”, “strangled in the tomb before Romeo comes?”, “The horrible conceit of death and night”, “shrieks like mandrakes torn out of the Earth”, “living mortals hearing them run mad”, “madly play with my forefathers joints”, “pluck the mangled Tybalt”, “dash out my desperate brains” - A4S4
Rhetorical questions repeated - conflicted about what to do, thinks through repercussions, rationally
Dedication to Romeo
“Romeo, Romeo, Romeo! Here’ drink - I drink to thee” - A4S4
Dedication to Romeo > all the repercussions possible, family, life
