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Romeo and Juliet Flashcards

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What is the theme 1?

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Love

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Describe the Love.

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The love is both amazing and destructive.
Its so pure but also chaotic, bringing death to their friends, family and to themselves.

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Mercutio

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  • Pleasure
  • No deeper meaning
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How the different characters see love:

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Lady Capulet

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  • Wealth
  • Social Status
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Frair Lawrence

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  • Recognizes love
  • Warns of its consequences and responsibilities.
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Lord Capulet

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  • Duty
  • Societal Order
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Paris

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Sees it as something he can control or manipulate for his own power.

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What is theme 2?

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Fate

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How is fate portrayed?

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It is displayed as an unstoppable force.

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What are some examples of fates influence in Romeo and Juliet?

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  • In the intro, it states that there will be a tragic end.
  • No matter how much the lovers plan or love each other, fate is always against them.
  • Romeo and Juliet’s determination to struggle against fate to be together, whether in life or death, shows passion and it makes love eternal.
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How did the audience experience fate?

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Foreshadowing

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13
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Theme 3?

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Individuals vs society

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Who is Romeo and Juliet against?

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Religion
Political Authority
Family
Friends

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How do they try avoid the conflict?

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By hiding and escaping from it. They prefer the privacy of the nighttime rather than the public world of daytime.

  • They speak to one another in puns and so they can publicly say one thing while meaning another.
  • On the night of their marriage they even pretend that day is night.
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In what way do they volunteer to give up their names, and social identity, to be together?

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Romeo tries to stop being a Montague and doesn’t want to fight Tybalt, but fails.

Juliet tries to not be a Capulet and stands against her father in order not to be married to Paris.

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How do Romeo and Juliet preserve their love?

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By doing the ultimate act of independence: suicide

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Theme 4?

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Violence and Death

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19
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Who died while Romeo is present?

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Mercutio

Romeo kills Tybalt, Romeo banished

Lady Montague dies of a brocken heart due to the banishment

Juliet will fake her death to be with Romeo at the tomb.

Romeo didnt get the message and kills Paris and himself.

20
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How does Romeo and Juliet end the cycle of violence?

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Revenges Tybalt’s death with his own.

Juliet kills herself making her the final price of the constant grudge between families.

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Key Facts:

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22
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What is the full title?

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The Most Excellent and Lamentable Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet

23
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When Written:

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early to mid 1590s

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When Published

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1597

25
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Juliet

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The beautiful thirteen-year-old daughter of Capulet
and Lady Capulet, and cousins with Tybalt. The Nurse is her
closest friend and advisor. Juliet is naïve and sheltered at the
beginning of the play, and has given almost no thought to love.
But as soon as she meets and falls in love with Romeo she
quickly develops into a woman of remarkable strength and
resolve in pursuing what she wants. Like Romeo, she is willing
to face all obstacles of society, fate, and death to be with her
love. Yet even while head over heels in love, Juliet remains
more grounded than Romeo. She even calls him on his silliness
when he gets overly poetic. It seems possible to attribute much
of Romeo’s transformation from a callous youth to a passionate
lover to Juliet’s influence.

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The Nurse

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The Nurse is a servant who nursed Juliet as a baby (the Nurse’s own baby died just before Juliet was born), and raised her through childhood. She is Juliet’s best friend and confidante, and in many ways is more her mother than Lady Capulet is.

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Mercutio

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Romeo’s close friend, and a kinsman of Prince Escalus. Mercutio is a wild, antic, and brooding youth. He is a whiz with wordplay and is constantly dropping sexual puns, but beneath this playful and sarcastic veneer lies a bitter world-
weariness. Mercutio hates romantic ideals of any sort, whether about honor or love, and mercilessly mocks those who hold
them.

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Friar Laurence

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A Franciscan monk and a friend to both
Romeo and Juliet. He preaches moderation because he understands that intensity of any kind of emotion, good or bad, can lead to disaster. Yet he gets caught up in his own hope for ending the feud between Montagues and Capulets. In the
process, he shows himself to be quite a schemer.

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Capulet

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Juliet’s father, Lady Capulet’s husband, and Tybalt’s uncle. He is the leader of the Capulet family and an enemy of
Montague. Capulet tries to appear like an even-minded and
loving man, and he certainly does love his daughter, but he
believes he knows what’s best for her, never consults her about
her feelings, and is quick to anger when crossed or disobeyed.

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Lady Capulet

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Juliet’s mother, and Capulet’s wife. A woman who married Capulet when she was Juliet’s age (thirteen), she
loves her daughter but is a flighty woman and an ineffectual mother who left most of the raising of her daughter to the
Nurse. When it comes to marriage, Lady Capulet believes more
in the material happiness a “good match” can bring than in love.

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Romeo

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The sixteen-year-old son of Montague and Lady Montague. He is cousins with Benvolio, and friends with Mercutio and Friar Laurence. Romeo’s defining characteristic is the intensity of his emotions—whether in anger, love, or
despair. Romeo is also intelligent, quick-witted, loved by his friends, and not a bad swordsmen. Over the course of the play,
Romeo grows from a an adolescent who claims to be in love with Rosaline, but in reality seems more in love with the idea of
love and with being a miserable wretch in the mold of classical love poets, to a young man who shares a deep and passionate
love with Juliet and is willing to face the obstacles of friends, family, the law, fate, and, ultimately, death in order to be with
her.

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Benvolio

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Montague’s nephew, Romeo’s cousin., and
Mercutio’s friend. Of the three boys, he is the most calm and the least quick-witted. On a few occasions, he tries to keep the peace rather than fight. Yet Benvolio is seldom successful in his peacekeeping efforts and will fight if pushed.

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Tybalt

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The nephew of Capulet, and Juliet’s cousin. A hothead consumed by issues of honor and well known for his skill with a sword, Tybalt hates the Montagues with a profound passion. He seems to look for excuses to fight.

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Paris

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A kinsman of Prince Escalus who wants to marry Juliet. Paris is a good-looking and wealthy man, but is rather pompous,
a tad boring, and lacks Romeo’s passion. His love for Juliet seems genuine, but, like Capulet, he seems to think he can
make Juliet’s decisions for her.

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Prince Escalus

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The Prince and leader of Verona. Escalus is
concerned primarily with keeping order in the city. He will do anything in his power to stop the feud between the Montagues
and Capulets from affecting the other citizens of the city.

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Montague

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Romeo’s father, Lady Montague’s husband, and Benvolio’s uncle. The leader of the Montague household, and quick to anger at his bitter rival, Capulet.

37
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Lady Montague

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Montague’s wife and Romeo’s mother. She
barely appears in the play.

38
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Friar John

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A Franciscan friar.

39
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Balthasar

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Romeo’s servant

40
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Samson and Gregory

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Capulet servants.

41
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Abraham

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Montague’s servant.

42
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Peter

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An illiterate Capulet servant.

43
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The Apothecary

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A poor apothecary (a drug seller) in Mantua.

44
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Rosaline

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A young woman who has taken a vow of chastity, yet with whom Romeo is infatuated at the beginning of the play.

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The Chorus

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An on-stage commentator on the events of the play (usually a single person).

46
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Theme 4?

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LANGUAGE AND WORD PLAY

47
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Theme 5?

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SERVANTS

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