Juliet Flashcards
When we first meet Juliet she is presented by Shakespeare as…?
Confident, witty, with a mind of her own
Capulet is initially a thoughtful and kind father, shown by his answer to Paris’ suit that…
His ‘child is yet a stranger in the world’ and ‘my will to her consent is but a part’
Juliet has a formal relationship with her mother, calling her ‘Madam’ and saying [of the marriage proposal]…
‘It is an honour that I dream not of’
the line, ‘it is an honour that I dream not of’ suggests…
Juliet is able to stay independent whilst seeming to be a respectful and dutiful daughter
Lady C presents Paris as J’s potential suitor through an elaborate…?
Conceit - comparing Paris to a beautiful book
Unlike Romeo who is relatively free to walk where he likes, Juliet is largely scene in domestic scenes apart from when she goes to…
Shrift (confession), showing Shakespeare’s awareness of the contrasting freedoms of young men and women in this period
Juliet agrees she will ‘look to like’ but commits no further to anything with..?
Paris
At the party in 1.5, Juliet spontaneously shares…?
A sonnet and a kiss with Romeo (their language and use of religious imagery is both elevating and romantic but also playful and witty )
Juliet picks up Romeo’s imagery (‘ay, pilgrim ‘, showing their connection, as well as sharing …?
Lines
Juliet successfully and wittily parries Romeo’s attempts to…’
Kiss her - ‘lips that they must use in prayer’/‘palm to palm is holy palmers kiss’
In the rising action both Romeo and Juliet are like characters from a…?
Comedy - they are in love, but their parents object to the match
From his first sight of her, Romeo compares J to a series of…?
radiant objects - torches, moon, stars etc
Romeo’s use of light imagery and hyperbole creates an impression that Juliet is…?
Extraordinary…almost otherworldly in her beauty
R’s language about Juliet contrasts with the negative and contradictory language he uses about…?
Rosaline, suggesting that Juliet has unlocked something for him
In 2.2 (Balcony scene) Juliet is…?
Wary and anxious about Romeo’s safety
Romeo is very poetic and exuberant but Juliet wants him to stop…?
Swearing and using poetic expression - instead asking for direct answers: ‘Do not swear at all’/‘Dost thou love me?’
Juliet’s directness can be summed up in her contrasting language…eg?
‘if they (Capulet/his men) do see thee they will murder thee’
Juliet uses a famous antithesis about her love for Romeo, linking it to…?
The feud: ‘My only love sprung from my only hate’
When she declares her love for Romeo she compares is to…
‘The sea’ and says it is ‘infinite’
Romeo and Juliet also see themselves as…
A falconer and a baby hawk (R calls J his ‘niesse’
Juliet’s scene with the Nurse in 2.5 shows Shakespeare exploring the theme of…?
Age vs youth: J’s impatience contrasts with the Nurse’s tiredness
J’s soliloquy (something which helps Shakespeare to develop her characterisation) is full of references to…and..?
Refs to time, classical allusions, references to age vs youth
J compares the Nurse to an appropriately comic thing…what is it?
She wishes the Nurse were a tennis ball that her words could ‘bandy her’ to Romeo
When the Nurse finally and after comic delays (which also reinforce the theme of age versus youth) tells J the plan for the wedding night, she makes yet another crude sexual reference…
To R climbing ‘a bird’s nest’ in the dark and J bearing ‘the burden (R) soon at night’
These crude expressions of the Nurse remind the audience of the story of J that she endlessly tells/repeats, restarts about…?
J when she fell forwards when young and that she will ‘fall backwards’ when she knows better (i.e. into bed)
Wedding scene 2.6 FL sees J and reinforces our sense from R’s language about her that she is…?
So beautiful as to be a bit otherworldly…’so light a foot’
FL’s homily refers to R and J as…?
‘Powder and fire’ and makes references to time and love -‘violent delights have violent ends’
When R is finally moved to fight in 3.1, he feels that J’s beauty has made him…?
‘Effeminate’ and blocked his courage, honour and ability to fight
How effective is love (FL’s plan) at stopping the feud as shown in 3.1?
Not very, although R uses words of love towards Tybalt as a cousin, T rejects them and Mercutio calls them a ‘vile submission’
3.2. Sees J’s second soliloquy but for the audience there is…?
Dramatic irony
The second soliloquy in 3.2 is full of references to…
Time, classical allusions, apostrophes (‘Come night’), longing to lose her virginity with R, repetitions, romantic language ‘when I shall die/Take him and cut him out in little stars’, as well as slightly jarring refs to her as an ‘impatient child’
The soliloquy in 3.2 is a kind of epithalamium or…
Wedding song
J initially thinks R is…?
Dead, when the Nurse uses the pronoun ‘He’ rather than a name
When J finds out that R has killed Tybalt (her ‘dearest cousin’), she uses antiheses to describe R as…?
‘O serpent heart hid with a flowering face’ and oxymorons: ‘damned saint’ showing her contradictory emotions
When she speaks to her mother who is grieving for T, she uses ambiguous phrasing so that she seems to be..’
Condemning Romeo whilst actually praising him
In 3.3 we see Romeo acting very similarly to Juliet…how?
Both want to die, are crying and exclaiming and using hyperbole
As the play develops, R and J become…
More alike -as shown in parallel scenes and reinforced by the Nurse and FL
3.4 see Capulet make a ‘desperate tender’ or offer of…?
Juliet’s hand in marriage to Paris (without first checking with her)
From this point in the play (3.4) Capulet shifts into being a tyrannical patriarch, showing Shakespeare explores…
Both sides of the father/daughter relationship - positive and negative
3.5 sees R and J’s last scene together before the scene in the tomb: they use…?
Contradictory language and antitheses - larks and toads, etc tonal shifts
3.5 sees J using the ambiguous phrasing to her mother about Romeo eg…?
‘I never shall be satisfied/with R till I behold him - dead -is my poor heart for a kinsman vexed’ showing her wit and intelligence
Capulet compares J to a…?
‘Conduit’ or fountain and a ship in rough seas because she cries so much
Capulet calls J’s respectful refusal of the suit…?
‘Chopt logic’ and mocks her
C uses abusive language about J…eg?
‘Mistress minion’ ‘baggage’, green-sickness carrion’ (misogynistic lang)
Lady C and the Nurse are used to show that C is going too far…eg?
‘Are you mad’, ‘you are too hot’
Capulet wants to hit J, saying…?
‘My fingers itch’
J is framed by Shakespeare using pathos…
She kneels and says, ‘Is there no pity sitting in the clouds…’
Capulet’s long monologue makes it sound as if it’s difficult to be a father with a daughter…eg?
‘Day, night, hour, tide, time..still my care hath been to have her matched’
J uses exclamations to the Nurse after her father has left…?
‘O God!’O Nurse!’ But the Nurse replies counselling that she marry Paris (typically down to earth, pragmatic advice)
When the Nurse calls R ‘a dishclout’ it is a crucial plot point as it…?
Estranges J from her last close support and makes her death more inevitable
J calls the Nurse, ‘Ancient damnation’ and…?
‘A wicked fiend’
4.1 sees Juliet increasingly using totally negative language and…?
Gothic language
In 4.1 J sounds very similar to…?
Romeo, with the knife she carries and her refs to wanting to die
J is what when the potion plan is proposed?
Brave but impulsive and hyperbolic
In the ‘O bid me leap speech’ in 4.1., J uses lots of emotive language and refs to…
Gothic elements - ‘charnel houses’, ‘rattling bones’ ‘roaring bears’ etc
When J appears to be reconciled to marrying P, Capulet says his…?
‘Wayward girl is…reclaimed’
4.3 J’s final soliloquy features…?
Apostrophising (the vial -‘Come vial’, a knife, fears that FL has given her poison, an extended metaphor of the vault as a mouth, Gothic visions of mandrakes and fears that she will go mad and play with her ancestors bones
J’s final scene - she is once again compared to…
Light
She is brave, contrasting with the cowardly…?
FL, in an age vs youth reversal
Her final words are brief because of time pressures (the watch is coming)…
‘o happy dagger…there rust and let me die’
Montague offers to make a gold statue of J…
But this is more one upmanship
In the final scene, the Prince calls it a…
‘Glooming peace’
