Romeo Flashcards
How is R presented in Act 1?
Depressed as Rosaline doesn’t love him-“One fairer than my love? The all-seeing sun
Ne’er saw her match since first the world begun.”
Fickle (Goes from R to J quickly)-
“Did my heart love till now? Forswear it, sight!
For I ne’er saw true beauty till this night.”
Changeable- “I have forgot that name and that name’s woe.”
Introvert: he is alone and uninterested in the family battles
How is R presented in Act 2?
Obsessive- “It is the east and Juliet is the sun.”
“See how she leans her cheek upon her hand!
O that I were a glove upon that hand,
That I might touch that cheek!”
Lovesick- “The brightness of her cheek would shame those stars
As daylight doth a lamp; her eye in heaven
Would through the airy region stream so bright
That birds would sing and think it were not night.”
How is R presented in Act 3?
Helpless- This day’s black fate on more days doth depend.
Thus but begins the woe others must end”
“Oh, I am a fortune’s fool.”
Childish and ungrateful- “‘Tis torture, and not mercy. Heaven is here,
Where Juliet lives, and every cat and dog
And little mouse, every unworthy thing,
Live here in heaven and may look on her.
But Romeo may not.”
How is R presented in Act 5?
Paranoid- “I dreamt my lady came and found me dead -
Strange dream,that gives a dead man leave to think!”
Desperate- “The doors of breath, seal with a righteous kiss
A dateless bargain to engrossing death! Come, bitter conduct, come, unsavoury guide!
Thou desperate pilot, now at once run on
The dashing rocks thy seasick weary bark!
Here’s to my love!”
Key plot points:
1.Romeo Montague and his friends gatecrash a Capulet party and Romeo meets Juliet Capulet. He falls in love with her instantly. They are shocked to discover they are sworn enemies due to their feuding families. Friar Laurence marries Romeo and Juliet.
2.Romeo goes to celebrate his marriage with his friends, Mercutio and Benvolio, but gets into a fight with Juliet’s cousin, Tybalt. Tybalt kills Mercutio and Romeo avenges his death by killing Tybalt.
3.The Prince banishes Romeo because he killed Tybalt. Both Romeo and Juliet are heartbroken.
4.Juliet fakes her death and lies in a tomb waiting for Romeo to come so they can run away together. Romeo doesn’t receive the message about the plan, so thinks Juliet has actually died. He goes to Verona and sees Juliet in her tomb, ‘dead’.
5.Romeo drinks poison so he can be with Juliet in death. She wakes up to discover Romeo is dead. Juliet kills herself with his dagger.
