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Romeo and Juliet Flashcards

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Unrequited love Scene 1 Romeo juxtaposition

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“O brawling love, O loving hate”

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Unrequited Love 1.1 Romeo imagery

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“Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs”

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Fate Romeo 1.4

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“Some consequence yet hanging in the stars,… some vile forfeit of untimely death”

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Fate Romeo 3.1

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“Then I defy you, stars!”

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Romantic love for Juliet 2.2

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“The brightness of those cheeks would shame those stars”
-hyperbole

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Romantic Love for Juliet 5.3

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“Here lies Juliet, and her beauty makes this vault a feasting presence full of light”

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Facing conflict Romeo 3.1

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“O sweet Juliet, thy beauty hath made me effeminate”

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Romantic love for Romeo 2.2

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“My bounty is as boundless as the sea, my love as deep”

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Practical attitude to Love Juliet 2.2

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“It is too rash, too unadvised, too sudden, too like…like lightning”

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Love and Death Juliet 1.5

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“If he be married, my grave is like to be my wedding bed”

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Love and Hate Juliet 3.2

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“O serpent heart, hid with a flowering face”
“Dammed saint, honourable villain”

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Love and Death Juliet 5.3

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“O happy dagger”

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Who is Benvolio’s foil?

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Tybalt

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Benvolio 1.1

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“I do but keep the peace. Put up thy sword or manage it to part these men with me”

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Benvolio 3.1

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“I pray thee, good Mercutio, let’s retire… these hot days is the mad blood stirring”

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Tybalt 1.5

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“Now by the stock and honour of my kin to strike him dead I hold it not a sin”

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Capulet 1.2

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“And too soon marred are those too early made”

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Capulet 3.5

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“Hang thee, young baggage, disobedient wretch!”

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Lady Capulet 1.3

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“Read o’er the volume of young Pari’s face, and find delight writ there with beauty’s pen”

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Lady Capulet 3.5

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“I would the fool were married to her grave”

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Nurse 3.5

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“I think it best you married with the county.Romeo’s a dishclout to him

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Friar Lawrence 2.3

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“Wisely and slow, they stumble that run fast”

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Friar Lawrence 2.6

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“These violent delights have violent ends”

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Friar Lawrence 3.3

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“Art thou a man? Thy tears are womanish”

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Mercutio 1.4

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“If love be rough with you, be rough with love”

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Prince 5.3

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“What a scourge is laid upon your hate that heavens finds a means to kill your joys with love!”

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Paris 1.2

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“Younger than her are happy mothers made”

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Possessive love Romeo 2.6

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“Love devouring death so what he dare, It is enough I may but call her mine”

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Keeping the peace Romeo 3.1

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“I do protest I never injured thee, but loved thee better than thou canst devise. “

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Capulet 3.4

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“I think she will be ruled in all respects by me”

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What sort of audience is Shakespeare writing to?

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a cross class audience

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How does Shakespeare write to a cross class audience?

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includes bawdy humour and refined language

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Definition of Catharsis

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purging of pity and fear among the audience

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Example of Catharsis in the play

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Juliet’s death “O happy dagger,/This is thy sheath”

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Definition of Hamartia

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tragic error made by the character

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Example of Hamartia

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Romeo’s Hamartia is being “too rash” as he falls in love quickly with Rosaline and the Juliet

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What is the hot temperature of Verona associated with?

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increased passion

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Why would have the Elizabethan audience viewed the setting with distrust?

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Italy was known for its Catholicism and England’s national religion was Protestantism at the time

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What would the Elizabethan audience’s religious stance been?

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-suicide was seen as a moral evil
-it would have been a sin for Juliet to disobey her father
-the couple would have been viewed as epitomising the sin of Hubris(one of the Seven Deadly sins)

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How may the Elizabethan audience have interpreted the ending?

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as a manifestation and re-assertion of traditional Christian Divine Justice

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Queen Elizabeth’s famous statement

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“I have the body of a weak and feeble woman; but I have the heart and stomach of a king”

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What is the male-female active-passive dichotomy based on?

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Augustinian teachings

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What archetype does Shakespeare draw heavily on?

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The Petrarchan lover

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