Mercutio Flashcards

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Be rough..

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Be rough with love, prick love for pricking, you will beat love dowm

Useless as a battle, something that must be approached violently to prevent vulnerability and the fear of getting hurt

Sexual connotations, sexual innuendo, objectifying women

Aggressive and violent

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His name

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Connect, lively, quickwitted with magnetic personality

Likes to mecurial prone to sudden unpredictable erratic character is perhaps un stable

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Quean mab

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Put on both ways, we are slang in Elizabeeth in era as well for prostitute sexualise. View of love

Symbolise that, romantic love, is an illusion or a fairytale rather than something real

Speech is disturbing in nature and highlight on stable nature contains Imogen about violence sex and fantasy

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When nurse asked to speak to Romeo?

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A bawd hide her face

Only values women on the aesthetic and youth he is cold and insensitive

exclamatory shows he is immature and misogynistic

Prostitute disrespectful towards women

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Seeing Romeo refuse to fight

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O calm, dishonourable, vile submission

He views violence as essential, and believes men who refuse to fight is shameful

Patriarchal ideas of patriarchal, masculinity

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After he has been been stabbed

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Scratch., scratch

Unable to acknowledge vulnerability, he does not want to seem week so plays down injuries

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Ask for me tomorrow, and you will find me a grave man

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Pun, concealing weakness again he cannot face vulnerability

Foreshadowing death

Connotations of death

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A plague, both your houses

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He is irresponsible, impulsive and rash, which is what caused him to die

He is cursing the houses planes stand for more down to earth does not blame Faith or supernatural force

Seafood as an infectious disease that causes suffering

Elizabeth on Spotify, live through the plate, so emphasises the grave nature of conflict

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Cupids wongs..

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You are a lover borrow Cupid wings and so beyond common, bound

Repeatedly mocking Romeos, feelings, metaphor, a magical imagery, soar -, lovers imaginary

Saying Romeo is understanding, love wrong love could be another world love freezes the mood

His tone is deterministic deems is Romeo as a lover, as though people are set, and have any free will to do anything else

Cupid was actually blind in Roman mythology, making arrows of love that he shoots seeming random and rules out by chance, which is a pessimistic way a viewing, something traditionally, romantic

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