juliet essay plan

Question 1

intro

Answer 1

• typical young girl in patriarchal society
• naive
• subservient, obedient, lacks power
• grows to defy those who hold power over her
• shakespeare explores strict society, power imbalance, young vs old, familial expectations

Question 2

paragraph 1

Answer 2

• naive, inexperienced
• ‘my child is yet a stranger in the world’ - 1.2 - overprotective, emphasises her lack of knowledge
• ‘what’s is a name’ - 2.2 - underestimates the value of family honour

Question 3

paragraph 2

Answer 3

• obedient, lacks control, subservient
• ‘thou knowest my daughters of a pretty age’ - 1.3 - expected to fulfil her duty
• ‘madam, i am here. what is your will?’ - 1.3 - obedient, placative

Question 4

paragraph 3

Answer 4

• displays more control, impulsiveness in her actions
• ‘and i’ll no longer be a capulet’ - 2.1 - once again disregards family honour
• ‘too rash, too unadvis’d, too sudden’ - 2.2 - contradicts this
• ‘if that they bent of love be honourable, thy purpose marriage’ - 2.2

Question 5

paragraph 4

Answer 5

• end of the play - desperation, powerless so she has no choice but to take her own life
• ‘good father i beseech you on my knees’ - 3.5
• ‘delay this marriage for a month, a week’ - wants to control time, unable to defy fate
• ‘myself have the power to die’ - powerless, yet she has power to kill herself, could be the most power she’s ever held over her own life
• ‘past hope, past cure, past help’ - 4.1, anaphoric
• ‘let me die’