Romeo and juliet Flashcards
Act 1
In love with rosaline in the beginning. Unrequited love. He thinks he is in love. Later changes mind. Rare for people who won’t traditionally marry for love but for money and power. Falls for juliet. Binary opposition of purity and corruption of love links to imagery of light then dark.
Sick health
Oxymoron
Sick health- he is healthy in body but he is sick with love. Love makes him sick though he is healthy. Implies love is both pleasure and pain. Further suggests that idea of human condition of letting love cause us suffering. Shows loves complexity. He’s confused
Feather of lead
Implies that love feel light as a feather but is a heavy burden. Also a love is compared to a feather gentile, light and pure. Also oxymoron. He’s confused, anxious and his mind is all over the place.
Act 1 scene 5
Capulet’s ball. Falls for juliet. Shared sonnet. Rhyming couplet. Mercurial lover. Changes feelings quickly. He is fickle. By the end of this act he is overflowing with happiness as his love this time is requited.
Capulet’s ball. Falls for juliet. Shared sonnet. Rhyming couplet. Mercurial lover. Changes feelings quickly. He is fickle. By the end of this act he is overflowing with happiness as his love this time is requited.
Act 2 scene 2
Balcony scene. Longest time that they have spent together in the entire play. Romantic in this scene. Plays role of a Petrarchan lover.
is the sun
Quote
Noun. The giver of light. Light in romeo’s life. Dark and light imagery again.
Bright angel
Angelic to him. Metaphor. Light imagery. Thinks she is perfect and special. Religious imagery. He idolises her. Celestial image implies how he elevates her to a heavenly esteem. Links to fatalism of their soon to be demise to a place such as heaven. Further emphasizes his hyperbolised display of love in his speech.
Crow and dove
In this scene there is a juxtaposition between Rosaline being a crow and juliet a dove. Doves are pure and are a symbol of peace.
Night
Night is fear and danger but for them safety and secrecy. Idea od duplicity. 2 elements to it.
Act 3
Tybalt fights Romeo. Impulsive. Acts without thinking. Tries to talk himself out of it but fights and kills Tybalt. This is because he kills Mercurtio. Didn’t mean to kill him. Tybalt- just married juliet so his cousin in law. Says i have to love thee. Mercurtio fight cos he said love had made Romeo soft.
Fortune’s fool
Romeo says o i am fortunes fool. Idiot. Doesn’t learn from it tho. He feels like he has been played by fate. There is a repetition of o and this shows he is confused, sad and sorry for himself. Impulsive and hamartia. Victim of fate. Fatal flaw. Recklessness and rash.
Act 5
He buys poison to go to her tomb and end his life. Once again rash and spontaneous as he could’ve waited and got the friars letter about the plan. Impatient. Kills Paris. Hasn’t learned from previous mistakes. Didn’t even know it was Paris until he killed him. Then he goes inside tomb then kills himself. He says thus with a kiss i die. Tragedy. Later juliet sees him dead and kills herself.
Introduction
Portrayed as handsome intelligent and sensitive character. Melancholic he is impetuous and impulsive. Fickle and rash. Also a protagonist. Isn’t interested in the feud and isn’t interested in violence. Not in opening scene.
Ending
Tragedy foretold in prologue occurs. Romeo and juliet die. Some would say romeo’s flaw ruined their love and as a result they died.
Star crossed lovers. Written in the star. Destined to be together. Fatalism and celestial love. Overall romeo is a sspontaneous and fickle character.
