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Juliet Flashcards

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When we first meet Juliet she is presented by Shakespeare as…?

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Confident, witty, with a mind of her own

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Capulet is initially a thoughtful and kind father, shown by his answer to Paris’ suit that…

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His ‘child is yet a stranger in the world’ and ‘my will to her consent is but a part’

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Juliet has a formal relationship with her mother, calling her ‘Madam’ and saying [of the marriage proposal]…

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‘It is an honour that I dream not of’

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the line, ‘it is an honour that I dream not of’ suggests…

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Juliet is able to stay independent whilst seeming to be a respectful and dutiful daughter

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Lady C presents Paris as J’s potential suitor through an elaborate…?

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Conceit - comparing Paris to a beautiful book

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Unlike Romeo who is relatively free to walk where he likes, Juliet is largely scene in domestic scenes apart from when she goes to…

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Shrift (confession), showing Shakespeare’s awareness of the contrasting freedoms of young men and women in this period

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Juliet agrees she will ‘look to like’ but commits no further to anything with..?

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Paris

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At the party in 1.5, Juliet spontaneously shares…?

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A sonnet and a kiss with Romeo (their language and use of religious imagery is both elevating and romantic but also playful and witty )

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Juliet picks up Romeo’s imagery (‘ay, pilgrim ‘, showing their connection, as well as sharing …?

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Lines

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Juliet successfully and wittily parries Romeo’s attempts to…’

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Kiss her - ‘lips that they must use in prayer’/‘palm to palm is holy palmers kiss’

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In the rising action both Romeo and Juliet are like characters from a…?

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Comedy - they are in love, but their parents object to the match

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From his first sight of her, Romeo compares J to a series of…?

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radiant objects - torches, moon, stars etc

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Romeo’s use of light imagery and hyperbole creates an impression that Juliet is…?

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Extraordinary…almost otherworldly in her beauty

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R’s language about Juliet contrasts with the negative and contradictory language he uses about…?

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Rosaline, suggesting that Juliet has unlocked something for him

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In 2.2 (Balcony scene) Juliet is…?

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Wary and anxious about Romeo’s safety

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Romeo is very poetic and exuberant but Juliet wants him to stop…?

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Swearing and using poetic expression - instead asking for direct answers: ‘Do not swear at all’/‘Dost thou love me?’

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Juliet’s directness can be summed up in her contrasting language…eg?

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‘if they (Capulet/his men) do see thee they will murder thee’

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Juliet uses a famous antithesis about her love for Romeo, linking it to…?

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The feud: ‘My only love sprung from my only hate’

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When she declares her love for Romeo she compares is to…

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‘The sea’ and says it is ‘infinite’

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Romeo and Juliet also see themselves as…

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A falconer and a baby hawk (R calls J his ‘niesse’

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Juliet’s scene with the Nurse in 2.5 shows Shakespeare exploring the theme of…?

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Age vs youth: J’s impatience contrasts with the Nurse’s tiredness

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J’s soliloquy (something which helps Shakespeare to develop her characterisation) is full of references to…and..?

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Refs to time, classical allusions, references to age vs youth

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J compares the Nurse to an appropriately comic thing…what is it?

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She wishes the Nurse were a tennis ball that her words could ‘bandy her’ to Romeo

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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…

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To R climbing ‘a bird’s nest’ in the dark and J bearing ‘the burden (R) soon at night’

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These crude expressions of the Nurse remind the audience of the story of J that she endlessly tells/repeats, restarts about…?

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J when she fell forwards when young and that she will ‘fall backwards’ when she knows better (i.e. into bed)

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Wedding scene 2.6 FL sees J and reinforces our sense from R’s language about her that she is…?

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So beautiful as to be a bit otherworldly…’so light a foot’

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FL’s homily refers to R and J as…?

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‘Powder and fire’ and makes references to time and love -‘violent delights have violent ends’

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When R is finally moved to fight in 3.1, he feels that J’s beauty has made him…?

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‘Effeminate’ and blocked his courage, honour and ability to fight

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How effective is love (FL’s plan) at stopping the feud as shown in 3.1?

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Not very, although R uses words of love towards Tybalt as a cousin, T rejects them and Mercutio calls them a ‘vile submission’

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3.2. Sees J’s second soliloquy but for the audience there is…?

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Dramatic irony

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The second soliloquy in 3.2 is full of references to…

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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’

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The soliloquy in 3.2 is a kind of epithalamium or…

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Wedding song

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J initially thinks R is…?

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Dead, when the Nurse uses the pronoun ‘He’ rather than a name

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When J finds out that R has killed Tybalt (her ‘dearest cousin’), she uses antiheses to describe R as…?

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‘O serpent heart hid with a flowering face’ and oxymorons: ‘damned saint’ showing her contradictory emotions

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When she speaks to her mother who is grieving for T, she uses ambiguous phrasing so that she seems to be..’

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Condemning Romeo whilst actually praising him

36
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In 3.3 we see Romeo acting very similarly to Juliet…how?

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Both want to die, are crying and exclaiming and using hyperbole

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As the play develops, R and J become…

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More alike -as shown in parallel scenes and reinforced by the Nurse and FL

38
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3.4 see Capulet make a ‘desperate tender’ or offer of…?

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Juliet’s hand in marriage to Paris (without first checking with her)

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From this point in the play (3.4) Capulet shifts into being a tyrannical patriarch, showing Shakespeare explores…

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Both sides of the father/daughter relationship - positive and negative

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3.5 sees R and J’s last scene together before the scene in the tomb: they use…?

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Contradictory language and antitheses - larks and toads, etc tonal shifts

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3.5 sees J using the ambiguous phrasing to her mother about Romeo eg…?

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‘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

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Capulet compares J to a…?

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‘Conduit’ or fountain and a ship in rough seas because she cries so much

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Capulet calls J’s respectful refusal of the suit…?

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‘Chopt logic’ and mocks her

44
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C uses abusive language about J…eg?

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‘Mistress minion’ ‘baggage’, green-sickness carrion’ (misogynistic lang)

45
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Lady C and the Nurse are used to show that C is going too far…eg?

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‘Are you mad’, ‘you are too hot’

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Capulet wants to hit J, saying…?

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‘My fingers itch’

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J is framed by Shakespeare using pathos…

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She kneels and says, ‘Is there no pity sitting in the clouds…’

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Capulet’s long monologue makes it sound as if it’s difficult to be a father with a daughter…eg?

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‘Day, night, hour, tide, time..still my care hath been to have her matched’

49
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J uses exclamations to the Nurse after her father has left…?

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‘O God!’O Nurse!’ But the Nurse replies counselling that she marry Paris (typically down to earth, pragmatic advice)

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When the Nurse calls R ‘a dishclout’ it is a crucial plot point as it…?

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Estranges J from her last close support and makes her death more inevitable

51
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J calls the Nurse, ‘Ancient damnation’ and…?

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‘A wicked fiend’

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4.1 sees Juliet increasingly using totally negative language and…?

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Gothic language

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In 4.1 J sounds very similar to…?

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Romeo, with the knife she carries and her refs to wanting to die

54
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J is what when the potion plan is proposed?

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Brave but impulsive and hyperbolic

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In the ‘O bid me leap speech’ in 4.1., J uses lots of emotive language and refs to…

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Gothic elements - ‘charnel houses’, ‘rattling bones’ ‘roaring bears’ etc

56
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When J appears to be reconciled to marrying P, Capulet says his…?

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‘Wayward girl is…reclaimed’

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4.3 J’s final soliloquy features…?

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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

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J’s final scene - she is once again compared to…

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Light

59
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She is brave, contrasting with the cowardly…?

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FL, in an age vs youth reversal

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Her final words are brief because of time pressures (the watch is coming)…

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‘o happy dagger…there rust and let me die’

61
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Montague offers to make a gold statue of J…

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But this is more one upmanship

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In the final scene, the Prince calls it a…

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‘Glooming peace’

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