Romeo Flashcards
How is he presented?
As a vehicle to highlight the all-consuming effects of love upon a male character.
Why is he presented this way?
As a means to challenge stereotypical expectations of men during the renaissance.
How is this presentation of him made?
Heightened Petrarchan language and descriptions of Juliet using religious imagery.
Increasingly more irrational thinking and reckless behaviour due to the influence of love.
Exposed vulnerability through confusion due to unreciprocated love from Rosaline.
In the opening of the play…
“Tut, I have lost myself”
“O brawling love O loving hate”
“Ay me! Sad hours seem long”
“O, teach me how I should forget to think”
As the play progresses…
“It is my lady, O it is my love!”
“She speaks: O, speak again, bright angel!”
“bring shame to those stars”
“more peril in thine eye Than twenty of their swords”
“Call me but love, and I’ll be new baptised; Henceforth I will never be Romeo”
Towards the end of the play…
“There is no world without Verona walls but purgatory, torture, hell itself.”
“I defy you stars!”
“Full of light” (whilst at her tomb at night)
“My wife! My love!”
