Mercutio Flashcards
Be rough..
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
His name
Connect, lively, quickwitted with magnetic personality
Likes to mecurial prone to sudden unpredictable erratic character is perhaps un stable
Quean mab
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
When nurse asked to speak to Romeo?
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
Seeing Romeo refuse to fight
O calm, dishonourable, vile submission
He views violence as essential, and believes men who refuse to fight is shameful
Patriarchal ideas of patriarchal, masculinity
After he has been been stabbed
Scratch., scratch
Unable to acknowledge vulnerability, he does not want to seem week so plays down injuries
Ask for me tomorrow, and you will find me a grave man
Pun, concealing weakness again he cannot face vulnerability
Foreshadowing death
Connotations of death
A plague, both your houses
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
Cupids wongs..
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