Love Flashcards
What phrase shows Romeos infatuation for Rosaline?
“She’s fair I love”
- “fair” highlights that the love is purely based off looks, and his infatuation for her
What does Mercutio think of love?
“If love be rough with you, be rough with love”
- Mercutio’s view on love is purely sexual. He is twisting Romeo’s loving words into sexual metaphors.
- Shakespeare is criticising false ideologies of love, whilst also criticising the false advice given to Romeo regarding love
How is the love between Romeo and Juliet initially presented?
“For I ne’er saw true beauty till this night”
-Romeo has just seen Juliet and is praising her beauty. The audience have had a prolonged wait to see Romeo and Juliet together however Romeo’s first sight of Juliet is immediately juxtaposed by violence highlighting that love and hate are inextricably connected
What does Juliet warn about their love at first?
“Too rash, too unadvis’d, too sudden”
-Shakespeare warns against impulsive and reckless decisions, arguing that acting recklessly out of love can have equally negative effects to acting recklessly out of hate
What does Romeo say about Mercutio’s version of love?
“He jests at scars that never felt a wound”
-This suggests that Mercutio has never been in true love and therefore does not know the pain that comes with it
What does the Nurse say about Paris before meeting him, and what is the significance of this?
“O, he’s a lovely gentleman!”
- S he is focused on physical attraction and that is her flawed conception of love.
- Perhaps Shakespeare is suggesting that love is not purely physical, but is emotional too and is criticising society’s false conceptions of love
