RJ Quotes - Juliet Flashcards
Whats the 1st why for Juliet and why?
Romeo and juliet serves as a warning to the audience against dreaming and behaving impulsively without properly considering actions and their potential consequences
Juliets impulsively decision making like agreeing to marry romeo, quickly and trusting the friars plan blindly
What is the 2nd why for Juliet and why?
Shakespeare exposes the limitations placed on women within a patriarchal society, whereby women have little autonomy over their own lives or futures
Juliet faces immense pressure from her family to marry Paris and is forced to rebel to assert her independence
What is the 3rd why for Juliet and why?
By presenting families where parents have little idea about the feelings and needs of their children, Shakespeare may be critiquing Renaissance social arrangements
Juliet’s strained relationship with her parents, particularly her father insistence on her marriage to Paris
What are adjectives used to describe Juliet?
Young
Naïve
Passionate
Loving
Mature (towards the end)
What themes are relevant to Juliet?
Love
Fate
Youthfulness
Conflict
Death
Transformation
Unrequited love
When was this quote stated and why is it important to the themes relevant to Juliet:
‘’A pair of star-crossed lovers”
Prologue
Highlights the theme of fate and the inevitability of death due to their forbidden love, forshadows fate
When was this quote stated and why is it important to the themes relevant to Juliet:
‘’my only love sprung from my only hate! Too early seen unknown, and know too late! Prodigious birth of love it is to me, that I must love a loathed enemy”
Act 1 scene 5
Juliet expresses the painful paradox of loving romeo, a member of her family’s enemy, illustrating the conflict between love and family loyalty, as well as the tragic consequence of their love
When was this quote stated and why is it important to the themes relevant to Juliet:
‘’O Romeo, Romeo! Wherefore art thou Romeo? Deny thy father and refuse thy name; or, if thou wilt not, but be sworn my love, and I’ll no longer be a Capulet.”
Act 2 Scene 2
Juliet’s willingness to defy her family and transform her identity for the sake of her love for Romeo, highlighting the tension between love and family conflict
When was this quote stated and why is it important to the themes relevant to Juliet:
‘’That ‘banished’, that oen word ‘banished’ hath slain ten thousand Tybalts.”
Act 3 Scene 2
juliets reaction to romeo’s banishment shows her despair over them being separated, emphasising the theme of fate and death, and the consequence of family conflict
When was this quote stated and why is it important to the themes relevant to Juliet:
‘’romeo, I come! This do I drink to thee!”
Act 4 scene 3
Juliet’s willingness to take the potion and risk death to be with romeo underscores her transformation from a dutiful daughter to a woman driven by love, as well as the tragic consequence of their love story.
