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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)
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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

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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
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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

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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
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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)

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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’

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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

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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)

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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

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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

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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
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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
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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

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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?

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  • Greek for protect the king
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What does the name Benvolio have connotations with?

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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?

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  • 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?

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  • Scales = brings justice

- price’s speech claims authority

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What does the name Montague have connotations with?

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  • Italian for mountain

- shows size, strength and status

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What does the name Romeo have connotations with?

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  • Means Pilgrim from Rome
  • spiritual meaning
  • Juliet is his shrine
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What quote suggests that time was passing slowly for Romeo in the start?

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  • Sad hours seem long

- ‘this love feel I, that feel no love in this’ = series of oxymorons

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What quote shows us that Romeo is serious about Rosaline?

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  • ‘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?

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  • 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
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What first impression of tybalt do we have?

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  • impulsive (misunderstood that they were fighting)

- honour matters - I hate hell as I hate thee and all Montagues

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What quote shows the relationship between a child and their parents in terms of marriage?

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‘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
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Quotes that give a sexual love from Mercutio’s point of view

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  • 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…

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  • ‘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)
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Quotes from Act 1 Scene 5 which show imagery of light and dark

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  • ‘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
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Quote that shows Romeo’s hubris as soon as he sees Juliet

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‘Did my heart love till now’

  • love at first sight
  • similar to what he said about Rosaline
  • makes audience question him
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Theme of spirituality and religion in Act 1 Scene 5

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  • 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
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How does the structure at the end of Act 1 Scene 5 reflect the theme of love?

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  • 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?

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  • 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’
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How is Rosaline’s love compared to Juliet?

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‘ he will sit under medlar tree’

- Mercutio’s sexual imagery juxtaposes Romeo’s pure love for Juliet

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What blazon is used to represent light and dark imagery in Act 2 Scene 2?

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  • Juliet is the sun - idolatry
  • ‘what light through wonder breaks?’ - she is radiant
  • idealistic love = shows his fickleness
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What quotes display Juliet’s beauty

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  • 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
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How do we know Romeo is bewildered to see Juliet in Act 2 Scene 2?

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  • 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
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Religious imagery of Juliet

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‘Bright angel’ = out of reach and as beautify, as an angel

‘Love’s light wings’ = Romeo flew to Juliet with

48
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How does Juliet recognise Romeo is Act 2?

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‘Art thou not Romeo, a montague’ (by his voice)

49
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Why role does the darkness play in Act 2?

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‘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
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How has love affected Romeo in Act 2?

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‘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
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How does Juliet instantly change after meeting Romeo in Act 2 Scene2?

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  • ‘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
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What quotes show Juliet’s maturity in Act 2 Scene 2?

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‘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
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How does time pass until Act 2?

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  • Act 1 - A2S2 = Sunday

- time passes slowly = no haste

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How is the idea of patriarchy introduced in Act 2?

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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

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Which quotes suggest that the Friar represents the middle ground?

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‘The grey-ey’d morn’ = voice of moderation

56
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What quote suggests that both sides of passion are destructive?

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  • 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`
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What exchange between Romeo and the Friar displays his hubris?’

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’ 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

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Quote showing Rosaline knew about Romeo’s hubris

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’ O she knew well’ = knew it wasn’t real love or he was trying to sleep w her

59
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What quote shows Friar’s warning

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’ 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?

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Quotes suggesting love is a sort of madness

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  • ’ 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?

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’ Prince of cats’ - TYBZ and ‘captain of compliments’

‘Good King of Cats’ (A3 S1)

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Relationship bw Romeo and the Nurse

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  • 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?

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  • ‘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?

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  • 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

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  • 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
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How is tension created at the end of Act 2?

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  • 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
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In Act 3 Scene 1 how does Benvolio introduce the idea of passion?

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  • 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
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What proves that Mercutio is uncontrolled

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  • 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
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How is Tybalt cowardly?

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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)
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How is Romeo loyal to Juliet?

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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?

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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?

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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
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Theme of light and dark in A3S2?

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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?

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  • ‘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

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’ 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

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How does Juliet echo Romeo’s oxymorons?

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  • ‘serpent heart’ hid with ‘flowering face’

- ‘beautiful tyrant’, ‘fiend angelical’

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How does take Juliet the news of Romeo’s banishment?

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  • ’ 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?

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  • ’ 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
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Role of men is Elizabthen society?

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  • strong and macho

- Frair accuses Romeo of being weak

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How does take Friar the news of Romeo’s banishment?

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  • 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
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How does the audience take the news of Romeo’s banishment?

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  • ‘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?

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  • 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?

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  • ‘she will be rul’d’ = (father = king)

- daughter = possession

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Idea of of haste in A3?

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  • 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

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  • ’ 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

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  • Lady C- ‘he shall soon keep Tybalt company’ = send someone to kill R
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How does Juliet showcase her maturity by talking with her mother in Act 3 Scene 5?

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  • ‘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?

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  • ‘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
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How is Capulet’s role as a father emphasised in Act 3 Scene 5?

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  • 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’
90
Q

How is Juliet’s relationship with Lady Capulet?

A
  • 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
Q

Juliet’s relationship with Nurse in Act 3 Scene 5?

A
  • 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
Q

How is the idea of haste introduced in Act 4?

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  • ‘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
Q

How does Juliet keep her locality to Romeo in Act 4?

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  • 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!’
94
Q

How does Friar come across in Act 4?

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  • 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
Q

How does the imagery surrounding Juliet change in Act 4?

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  • ‘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)
96
Q

How does Capulet come across in Act 4?

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  • ‘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
Q

How does the relationship between man and woman change in Act 4?

A
  • 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
Q

How does Juliet further detach herself from her childhood in Act 4?

A
  • 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
Q

Why does Juliet act mad in Act 4?

A
  • 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
Q

How does each the Nurse and Lady C react to Juliet’s death?

A
  • 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!’
101
Q

How is imagery of death and Juliet related in Act 4?

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  • 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)
102
Q

Why does Romeo seem childish I’m Act 5?

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  • ‘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)
103
Q

What suggests the feud started due to money?

A

‘Thy gold, worse than poison to men’s souls (R in A5S2)

- is money source of feud

104
Q

How does Shakespeare create tension in Act 5?

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  • 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
Q

Imagery surrounding Juliet in act 5?

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  • 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
Q

What role does fate play in Act 5?

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  • ‘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
107
Q

How does Romeo create the idea of love in the afterlife in Act 5?

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  • ‘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
Q

How does Juliet show the idea their love is everlasting in Act 5?

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‘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)
109
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How do the characters react to R+J’s deaths in the last act?

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  • 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

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