R+J Flashcards
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What quote shows that for Romeo, Juliet is the light?
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‘But what soft light through yonder window breaks?’ It is the east and Juliet is the sun’
Shows that Juliet = new light and radiance and BLAZON (idolatry)
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What quote shows that Juliet is beautiful in Romeo’s eye?
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- moon is ‘sick and pale’ with Grieg and ‘sick and green’
- moon is jealous of her that’s how radiant she is
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What quote shows Juliet as a cosmic being?
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- two of the fairest stars in heaven (eyes are brighter than stars)
- bright angel (out of reach)
- she leans her cheek upon her hand( human after all)
4
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How do we know Romeo hasn’t experienced real love before Juliet
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Juliet says he ‘kisses by th’book’
- not very emotional
5
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How do we know Romeo is romantic?
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‘ Love is a smoke made with the fume of sight’
- rushes into love and is passionate ‘fire-ey’d fury be my conduct now’
- but a ‘young wavered’ = hubris is fickleness
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How do we know Romeo is not as mature?
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- doesn’t listen to friar telling him to go ‘wisely and slow’
- Romeo thinks he is ‘fortunes fool’
- impulsive = kills Tybz
7
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What quote shows night hides Romeo and Juliet?
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- ‘night’s cloak’ (Romeo)
- ‘mask of night is on my face’ (Juliet)
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How does Juliet show maturity in the balcony scene?
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- ‘fain would I dwell on form, fain, fain deny’ = she retreats saying he love to Romeo as she is conflicted between her independence and loyalty to her father
- ‘o swear not by the moon, the inconstant moon’ = wants him to spiritually connect
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How do we know Juliet is passionate about Romeo in the balcony scene?
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- ‘my tru love passion’ (to Romeo) = she is too fond of Romeo
- ‘god of idolatry’ = is her measure of devotion for Romeo
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Why is Juliet not happy in the balcony scene?
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‘ it is too rash, too unadvis’d too sudden, too like the lighting which do cease to be’ and lighting = very passionate for a short while
- ‘ the bud of love’ needs time to grow into a beautiful flower
11
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What quote shows the patriarchy in Elizabethan times?
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- bondage is Hoarse = imprisoned or controlled by her father
- twisted Gyges = imagery of imprisonment
12
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What quote shows Friar Lawrence as the voice of moderation?
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- the grey eyed moon (between light and dark)
- talks about how one thing can have a positive and negative affect (love)
13
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What shows Romeo’s fickleness?
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When asked about his love for Rosaline by the Friar he says ‘I have forgot that name and that name’s woe’
14
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What quote shows Friar’s doubt for Romeo?
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‘women may fall when there’s no strength in men’ = accusing him of being weak and inconsistent
- he knew Romeo ‘doted’ not ‘loved’ Rosaline (for infatuation) and he says that Rosaline ‘knew well’ about this
15
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Which quote shows the warning of being hasty?
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‘Wisely and slow, they stumble that run fast’ (Friar to Romeo)
16
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Which quotes support love is a type of madness?
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‘Rosaline torments him so he will sure run mad’ (Mercutio to Romeo)
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How do we know Mercutio is a playful character?
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- mocks tybz as ‘Prince of cats’
- calls Tybz ‘courageous captain of compliments’ and says that Tybalt exploits the rules for his advanced
18
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What technique does Shakespeare use to add comic relief to the play?
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- introduces humour through Nurse
- uses malapropism (wrong words which sound similar) e.g. invite and indite/ propose and protest
19
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What is the relationship of Romeo and Juliet like on Act 2?
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‘Is news good or bad?’ - J acts childish and impatient and rude which contrasts from start where she was eloquent and romantic (reminds us she is only 13 so does she really love Romeo?)
- she’s growing away from Nurse into womanhood OR less mature
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What quote shows that the Friar thinks this love will have a bad ending?
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‘ these violent delights have violent ends’
‘Die like fire and powder’ (extinguished as soon as They are lit)
- ‘ o so light a food’(Friar to Juliet) = her path is difficult
21
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What quote introduces the idea of fate in the play?
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- a pair of star crossed lovers
- death marked love
- fatal loins
22
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What does the name Sampson have connotations with?
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- character in bible associated with strength
- sexual view of love
23
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What does the name Gregory have connotations with?
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- watchful and vigilant
- armed with weapons = conflict (introduces theme)
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What does the name Abram have connotations with?
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Hebrew for he who flies
- ‘no sir’ = mocks the Montagues
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What does the name Balthasar have connotations with?
- Greek for protect the king
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What does the name Benvolio have connotations with?
Latin word for good
| - ‘you do not know what to do’ = similar to words of Jesus
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What does the name Tybalt have connotations with?
- character from ‘Reynard the cat’ who is a sly cat
| - violent dialogues ‘heartless hinds’
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What does the name Escales have connotations with?
- Scales = brings justice
| - price’s speech claims authority
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What does the name Montague have connotations with?
- Italian for mountain
| - shows size, strength and status
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What does the name Romeo have connotations with?
- Means Pilgrim from Rome
- spiritual meaning
- Juliet is his shrine
31
What quote suggests that time was passing slowly for Romeo in the start?
- Sad hours seem long
| - ‘this love feel I, that feel no love in this’ = series of oxymorons
32
What quote shows us that Romeo is serious about Rosaline?
- ‘she hath Dian’s wit’ = mythological reference
- Romeo is shy and introverted in scene 1
- introduced to his hubris of fickleness
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What does the name Paris have connotations with?
- character form a Greek mythology who was invited to a feast to look at beautiful women
- keen to marry Juliet - Capulet wants him to be less passionate
- Capulet tells Paris to chill just like Benvolio tells Romeo
34
What first impression of tybalt do we have?
- impulsive (misunderstood that they were fighting)
| - honour matters - I hate hell as I hate thee and all Montagues
35
What quote shows the relationship between a child and their parents in terms of marriage?
‘Pretty fool, it’s tinted and said ‘ay’’
- women would be reflect and illegal to marry without parental consent
- prepares for domestic life (thou will fall backward - have sex)
- tension as she’ll have to break the law to marry Romeo
36
Quotes that give a sexual love from Mercutio’s point of view
- prick love for pricking (turns everything Romeo says into sexual)
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Mercutio’s playful character can be seen in the Queen Mab speech when he says...
- ‘empty hazel-nut’ = fairy and childlike imagery
- ‘they dream of love’ = gets darker
- speech gets more chaotic symbolising his character and foreshadows him being out of order (juxtaposes Romeo’s love)
38
Quotes from Act 1 Scene 5 which show imagery of light and dark
- ‘she teach the torches to burn bright’ and ‘hangs upon the cheek of night’ = is the light to his darkness
- ‘a rich jewel in an Ethiop’s ear’ = reinforces the contrast
39
Quote that shows Romeo’s hubris as soon as he sees Juliet
‘Did my heart love till now’
- love at first sight
- similar to what he said about Rosaline
- makes audience question him
40
Theme of spirituality and religion in Act 1 Scene 5
- Romeo says he ‘profane’ and ‘my lips, two blushing pilgrims’
- ‘this holy shrine’
- ‘smooth that rough touch with a tender kiss’ = asks her to kiss on hand = religious contrasts with earlier sexual imagery
41
How does the structure at the end of Act 1 Scene 5 reflect the theme of love?
- R +J make a sonnet with first 14 lines together = incomplete without each other
- sonnet is an extended Christian metaphor
- iambic pentameter
- Juliet copy’s Romeo’s rhyming style (abab and she does cbcb) suggesting she’s naïve and he’s leading her on
- Juliet doesn’t have the maturity to make her own style
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What does the chorus at the end of Act 1 show?
- sonnet form = love
- actual sonnet is filled with language related to death and sex - foreshadows that their love will bring them to their demise
- ‘fearful’, ‘foe s’upposed’ ‘steal love’s sweet bait’
‘ but passion lends them power’
43
How is Rosaline’s love compared to Juliet?
‘ he will sit under medlar tree’
| - Mercutio’s sexual imagery juxtaposes Romeo’s pure love for Juliet
44
What blazon is used to represent light and dark imagery in Act 2 Scene 2?
- Juliet is the sun - idolatry
- ‘what light through wonder breaks?’ - she is radiant
- idealistic love = shows his fickleness
45
What quotes display Juliet’s beauty
- moon is ‘sick’ and ‘pale’ with grief
- brighter than ‘two of the fairest stars in heaven’ (cosmic love)
- ‘o that I were a glove upon that hand’ = earthly idea of love
- of mortals that fall back - reminds us she is human
46
How do we know Romeo is bewildered to see Juliet in Act 2 Scene 2?
- O it is my love:’ - caseura adds more weight to the following ‘O that she knew she were’
- trimeter (3 metrical feet per line) = breathless
47
Religious imagery of Juliet
‘Bright angel’ = out of reach and as beautify, as an angel
| ‘Love’s light wings’ = Romeo flew to Juliet with
48
How does Juliet recognise Romeo is Act 2?
‘Art thou not Romeo, a montague’ (by his voice)
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Why role does the darkness play in Act 2?
‘Night’s cloak p to hide me’ (Romeo) = place of sanctuary and is safe (normally dangerous)
‘Mask of night’ = surrounded by it
- ‘o blessed night’ - afraid this is a dream ( night is so perfect)
50
How has love affected Romeo in Act 2?
‘by Love’ and ‘he lent me counsel’
- personification of love makes it seem like love is making him do things
- under love’s control
51
How does Juliet instantly change after meeting Romeo in Act 2 Scene2?
- ‘Fain would I dwell on form, fain and deny ‘ = regrets confessing (torn bw family and Romeo)
- ‘i am too fond’ = direct and bold ‘my true love passion’ by giving in I’m not a flirt’
- ‘god of idolatry’ (J to R)
- ‘my lord’= he has control over her
- ‘ a thousand times good night!’ hyperbole shows her excitement
52
What quotes show Juliet’s maturity in Act 2 Scene 2?
‘O swear not by the moon, the inconstant moon’ - wants spiritual love
- ‘ too rash too Unadvised too sudden’ = conflicted bw obedience to family and love
- ‘bud of flower ... beauteous flower when we next meet’ = love needs time to grow
53
How does time pass until Act 2?
- Act 1 - A2S2 = Sunday
| - time passes slowly = no haste
54
How is the idea of patriarchy introduced in Act 2?
Act 2 S2 - 'bondage is a hoarse' = controlled by her father
'like a poor prisoner in his twisted gyes' = imagery of imprisonment
'such sweet sorrow' = sibilance but oxymoron
55
Which quotes suggest that the Friar represents the middle ground?
'The grey-ey'd morn' = voice of moderation
56
What quote suggests that both sides of passion are destructive?
- describes dual qualities of a flower
- 'virtue itself turns vice, being misapplied/ and vice sometimes by action dignified' good can be bad and bad can be good
- ' being tasted stays all senses with the heart' - foreshadows romeo's FATE = predetermined and can't be avoided`
57
What exchange between Romeo and the Friar displays his hubris?'
' I have forgot that name, and that name's woe' (Friar knew ab Rosaline = knows he's fickle
' Women may fall when there is no strength in men' = accuses him of being weak
'For doting, not for loving pupil mine' = Knew he was infatuated w Rosaline but didn't love her
58
Quote showing Rosaline knew about Romeo's hubris
' O she knew well' = knew it wasn't real love or he was trying to sleep w her
59
What quote shows Friar's warning
' Wisley and slow, they stumble that run fast.' = similar to Juliet to wait for the love to blossom
- but in 24 hours they've decided their marriage = love or hubris? haste?
60
Quotes suggesting love is a sort of madness
- ' he will sure run mad' - Mercution ab Romeo
| - Romeo loves love and Tybalt loves hate
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How does Mercution mock the other characters?
' Prince of cats' - TYBZ and 'captain of compliments'
| 'Good King of Cats' (A3 S1)
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Relationship bw Romeo and the Nurse
- Nurse is proctective of Juliet so tells Romeo to be responsible because 'gentlewomen is young' and as he's older
- Romeo makes fun of her as she uses MALAPROPISM to decrease the tension in the play
- Nurse thinks 'Paris is the properer man' = better for Juliet
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How does Juliet's relationship w the Nurse change in Act 2?
- 'is thy news good or bad? Answer to that' - her relationship with the Nurse deteriorates as she becomes more rude, childlike and impatient and before she was eloquent (but only 13)
- growing into woman or more childlike
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Foreshadowing by Friar in Act3?
- heaven 'smiles' upon them
- ' death do what he dare' (Romeo when getting married)
- ' violent delights have violent ends'
- Juliet's 'o so light a foot' - too dainty for the journey ahead
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Quotes suggesting love dies as soon as it comes
- Friar = ' die like fire and powder' = extinguished as soon as it's lit
- Juliet = ' too like the lighting which doth cease to be' = haste and passion
66
How is tension created at the end of Act 2?
- If the audience know about plays - would know about Aristotle's format of dramatic structure in tragedies and know that climax is coming and problems occur
- Exposition, Rising Action, Climax (upcoming), Falling action and Denouement
67
In Act 3 Scene 1 how does Benvolio introduce the idea of passion?
- mad blood stirring
- hot day = pathetic fallacy for fiery passion
- 'reason coldly' = cold = peace and calm and hot = passion
- R nd Tybz fight - 'they go like lighting' (similar to what Juliet said ab Romeo's love) - passion and intense emotions
68
What proves that Mercutio is uncontrolled
- he always talks in prose = informal
- he says to Benvolio 'thy head is full of quarrels' = opposite to what everyone thinks = wrong
- 'be my head' (B) and M replies w 'be my heels' = doesn't care = reckless
- M replies to Tybz in prose (disrespectful) and Tybz follow w prose -> draws him in
69
How is Tybalt cowardly?
A3S1
- hot headed and motivated
- 'follow me close' to servants cowardly and careful
- 'thou art a villian' = dramatic irony
- master swordsman? --> fights like a street fighter (knew he would win anyway but still cheats)
- 'unruly spleen' = ungovernable hatred for R (in b's account of what happened)
70
How is Romeo loyal to Juliet?
A3S1 - Tybz fights
- 'tender as dearly as my own' = values Tybz name (changed as a character as all he feels is love)
- delayed gratification of killing Tybalt adds tension and makes it more powerful
- 'Forbid this bandying in Verona' = acting as Prince Escalus
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How is Mercutio's personality reflected in his demise?
A3S1 - he dies
- 'a plague upon both your houses'
- ' find me a grave man' = pun and euphemism for death = verge of death and making jokes
- 'book of arithmetic' = R kisses by the book and Tybalt fights by the book = parallel
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How does Mercutio's death change Romeo?
A3S1
- 'my reputation stain'd' - rethinks love (conflict bw love and honour)
- 'thy beauty has made me effeminate' - J has made him less tough (society = men - tough and macho)
- 'day's black fate' = foreshadows start of misery
- ' fire eyed fury' = R lets anger guide his actions
73
Theme of light and dark in A3S2?
Juliet says - ' gallop apace you fiery footed steeds' - tells Sun to go away and night to come (night = sex love and death)
- 'civil night' and 'matron all in balck'
- ' cut him out in little stars' = same imagery as R said for J in A2S2 = 'two little spheres' (calls her eyes stars)
- 'all the world will be in love with night' (R=light)
- 'lovers can see to do their amorous rites by their own beauties' - love is radiant enough to consummate their marriage
- 'Come Romeo thou day in night'
- 'More light and light, more dark and dark our woes!' (A3S5)= (By romeo) = more light = more problems
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Juliet's passion in A3?
- 'leap to these arms'
- ' hood my unmann'd blood' = she doesn't want to embarrass herself with the passion she has for Romeo (blushing)
- ' I shall die' = euphemism for orgasm
- 'O' = similar to R's O
- ' to an impatient child that hath new robes but may not wear them' = unmann'd blood and ungovernable spleen (B earlier ab Tybalt) = both passion are destructive in contralibilty
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Cosmic comparisons
' Can heaven be so envious' (J) similar to R saying ab the 'envious moon' = angry with fate
- 'i shall poison more than eye of the cockatrice' = more poisonous than an evil snake = rage
76
How does Juliet echo Romeo's oxymorons?
- 'serpent heart' hid with 'flowering face'
| - 'beautiful tyrant', 'fiend angelical'
77
How does take Juliet the news of Romeo's banishment?
- ' blister'd be thy tongue' = when Nurse took his name in vain (relationship deteriorating ) - J doesn't need N
- J behaves more mature than whimery Romeo
- ' villain cousin would have kill'd my husband' = instantly reasons and wise enough to make her own decisions
- 'back foolish tears' (of joy not sorrow)
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How does take Romeo the news of Romeo's banishment?
- ' what sorrow craves aquaintence' = expect him to be happier that he's not punished to death just banishment
- ' do not say banishment' = dramatic, reaction to rather die is crazy
- ' no world without Verona walls' = narrow minded and dull
- ' thou seest it not' (by Friar) - says Romeo is selfish
- 'But Romeo may not' (anaphora) = self [it and victimizing
- Friar calls him a 'fond mad man' = love is mad
79
Role of men is Elizabthen society?
- strong and macho
| - Frair accuses Romeo of being weak
80
How does take Friar the news of Romeo's banishment?
- done with Romeo
- 'what rouse thee man! thy Juliet is alive'
- anaphora of 'there art thou happy' = comforts R
- says R is behaving like a 'mishaved and sullen wench' = like a father to R
- R is infeminate and childish and needs calming down but J doesn't
81
How does the audience take the news of Romeo's banishment?
- 'how well my comfort is recieved by this' (R)
| - losing patience with R as his emotions fluctuate (even here he is elated after hearing that J wants to see him)
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How does Capulet act in A3S4?
- in A1S2 = tells Paris - 'she's too young'
- A3S4 ' I will make a desperate tender' = doesn't ask J
- 'she will be rul'd in all respects by me'
- 'nay more, I doubt it not' = dramatic irony (confidence in Juliet's obedience = expected)
- sudden change in mood = rash, hot-headed and contradictory (explains feud)
- builds tension bw Juliet and Capulet for audience
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Role of father in Elizabethan society?
- 'she will be rul'd' = (father = king)
| - daughter = possession
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Idea of of haste in A3?
- Capulet --> ' do you like this haste'
| - opp to Friar (slowly and wise) = even adults don't agree on advice and can't stop fate happening
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Idea of fate
- ' all men call thee fickle'
| - ' as one dead in the bottom of a tomb'(J to R) = foreshadows
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Idea of violence in Act 3 Scene 5
- Lady C- 'he shall soon keep Tybalt company' = send someone to kill R
87
How does Juliet showcase her maturity by talking with her mother in Act 3 Scene 5?
- 'till i behold him - dead- is my poor heart' = her heart is dead until she sees him to she will be happy when he's dead = outwits her mother
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How does Juliet showcase her maturity by talking with her father in Act 3 Scene 5?
- 'but thankful that you have' = courteous and polite declining
- ' I beseech you on my knees' = kneels down (mature)--> modern - side w J and old = side w J's dad but old lower class = Side w J
- 'make the bridal bed in that dim monument Tybalt lies' = stands up to him = bold
89
How is Capulet's role as a father emphasised in Act 3 Scene 5?
- asks Lady C if she's told J Capulet's 'decree' = decision = definite = power over her
- 'how how...chopt logic' - instantly furious
- mocks J -'I thank you'/.. not'
- 'drag thee on a hurdle thither' and 'my fingers itch' = violence
- 'you baggage' = dehumanising her
- Lady C says 'are you mad' = passion in fatherly love and 'you are too hot' = passion
- 'wilding' = worthless if no use to Capulet
- makes me 'mad'
-
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How is Juliet's relationship with Lady Capulet?
- Lady c - 'talk not to me for I'll not speak a word'
- left with no parental support
- Juliet is confused and isolated
- never needed her much before but now, she's completely separated
91
Juliet's relationship with Nurse in Act 3 Scene 5?
- Nurse says she should marry Paris
- 'well thou has comforted me marvellous much' =Julet is angry, sarcastic and relationship goes downhill
- ' thou and my bosom henceforth shall be twain' = J officially separates from Nurse = disowns childhood and adolescence
' If all shall fail, myself I have power to die;' = foreshaodws and 'myself' after caseura = weighted and shows its not a tantrum and she means it
92
How is the idea of haste introduced in Act 4?
- ‘am I nothing slow to slack his haste’ = time moves fast
- anaphora of ‘haste’ by Paris = theme is more apparent
- ‘in this so sudden business’ (Juliet to mother and nurse) = too unadvised?
- ‘make haste, the bridegroom he is come already’ = he’s talking ab Paris but Juliet has already taken the potion = death is his son in law - tension at the end of A4S3 as we don’t know what happens to J until A4S5
93
How does Juliet keep her locality to Romeo in Act 4?
- Outwits Paris when she tells him ‘I confess to you that I loved him’ (could be R or Friar?)
- ‘more price being spoken behind your back’ = allows her to be more honest to herself
- suicide - ‘and with this knife I’ll hold it presently’
- ‘unstained wife’ = marrying Romeo was no sin to Juliet
- desperate for potion- ‘give me give me!’
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How does Friar come across in Act 4?
- wise but giving strange advice
- ‘ I already know thy greif’ = persuading Juliet
- ‘my resolution wise’ = she will do anything if Friar gives her blessings
- blind trust in him as J calls him a ‘holy man’
- he says in their love for their child they run ‘mad’ and calls LadyC,C, and Nurse unreasonable and to ‘dry up your tears’ = extreme just to make himself right
95
How does the imagery surrounding Juliet change in Act 4?
- ‘covered with dead man’s rattling bones’
- ‘yellow chapless skulls’
- dark image compared to her earlier ‘cosmic’ and bright angel comparisons
- ‘madly play with my forefather’s joints’ = crazy thoughts (diff from eloquent Juliet at the start of the play)
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How does Capulet come across in Act 4?
- ‘he may chance do some good on her’ ab Friar and Juliet = wrong = Shakespeare mocks him
- Juliet kneels down to him (King Capulet) and ‘I am forever ruled by u’
- ‘I’ll have this knot knit up by tomorrow’ = earlier by a day = more tension
- ‘my heart is wondrous light’ = happy he has power back - says he’ll sort everything out - dramatic irony - C is not as smart as he thinks
97
How does the relationship between man and woman change in Act 4?
- Capulet ignores Lady C about time
- Wives had no power over any decisions
- Juliet is making her decisions but it ironically goes wrong for her = woman shouldn’t rebel against the role as they’re submissive or that society needs to change for woman to have a happy life
98
How does Juliet further detach herself from her childhood in Act 4?
- Tuesday night = middle of night = mad in love
- ‘leave me to myself tonight’ to Nurse
- ‘no madam’ to mother (formal considering this is the last time they see each other)
- ‘let Nurse this night sit up with you’ = turned independent = her fake death = death of childhood
- ‘Nurse! - What should she do here?’ = conflict and panic but stops herself
99
Why does Juliet act mad in Act 4?
- worried about going into the tomb
- ‘there’s a fearful point!’ As she’s scared she’ll suffocate
- ‘hearing them run mad’ = passion of love
- almost deranged way of speaking = ‘and plucked the manga led Tybalt from his shroud’
100
How does each the Nurse and Lady C react to Juliet’s death?
- Lady C = ‘my only life!’ ‘Look up or I will die with thee!’= audience is shocked OR she’s thinking selfishly that J is the only will carrying her family forward so if she dies, her family line does too
- Nurse = trying to be sincere = but came out hysterical and like in a panotmime = not authentic ‘O woe! O woeful woeful woeful day!’
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How is imagery of death and Juliet related in Act 4?
- Capulet - ‘death is my son in law’ = death has taken her virginity = haste of marriage was due to need of heir —> correlates death to sexual imagery (links fo A3S2 = Juliet saying if not Romeo, death take my Maidenhead = weird for modern audience but common euphemism for death and virginity)
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Why does Romeo seem childish I’m Act 5?
- ‘then I defy you stars’ = blaming fate = immature and temperamental
- ‘Juliet I will lie with thee’ = his downfall is due to his own rash decisions
- apothecary = irrational and fickle (distraught when Rosaline didn’t love him and now distraught when banished)
- love is a madness ‘or am I mad hearing him speak of Juliet’ (R ab Paris)
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What suggests the feud started due to money?
‘Thy gold, worse than poison to men’s souls (R in A5S2)
| - is money source of feud
104
How does Shakespeare create tension in Act 5?
- everything is up to fate as letter wasn’t delivered
- Shakespeare uses filler scenes = structure while audience want to get to last scene
- death has ‘no power upon thy beauty’ (Romeo about Juliet). - audience hopes they escape fate
105
Imagery surrounding Juliet in act 5?
- poor living corpse (Friar ab J)= oxymoron
- ‘a lantern slaughtered youth’ = Juliet’s light turns dark churchyard into a palace of light (transforms it into heaven)
- ‘unsubstantial death is amorous’ = Romeo personifies death
106
What role does fate play in Act 5?
- ‘fly hence and leave me’ (Romeo to paris) = fate causes him to involve din fights even though he doesn’t want to
- ‘inauspicious stars’ = he’s controlled by fate
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How does Romeo create the idea of love in the afterlife in Act 5?
- ‘I will stay with thee’
- ‘everlasting rest’ = refusing death as it’s not the end as love is everlasting (death is escape from their fates)
- ‘dateless bargain’ with death = has cheated death out of its contract = shows his passionate nature with exclamations
- ‘I dreamt my master and another fought’ (Balthasar - R’ servant) = blurred lines of reality and dreams
108
How does Juliet show the idea their love is everlasting in Act 5?
‘Make me die with a restorative’ = died in such a way so it restores their love (same as Romeo)
- ‘O happy dagger’ = more gruesome death than Romeo = more courageous and honourable = more mature but R acted childish
- J stabs herself = death is an act of love as death consummates their love (death is my son in law and death as Juliet’s lover)
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How do the characters react to R+J’s deaths in the last act?
- Friar = ‘I am the greatest, able to do least’ and be sacrificed ‘into the rigour of the severest law’= he accepts responsibility
- Prince - ‘ sun for sorrow will not show its head’ = not heat left in the play (was a hot day before but now no passion left)
- happens like a dream/fantasy = M and C make up
