Romeo and Juliet Flashcards
What is the reference to astrology/occult in the Prologue?
star-crossed lovers
What troubadour theme is most illustrated in this Romeo quote? “Why, then, O brawling love, O loving hate, O anything of nothing first create! O heavy lightness, serious vanity, Misshapen chaos of well-seeming forms…
contradiction
To whom is Romeo referring when he says, “… she hath Dian’s wit”?
Rosaline
Who says this and in what context?
Romeo; He is comparing love to religion.
He is telling Benvolio he cannot forget Rosaline because it would be a heresy and Benvolio tells him to find someone else to love.
Romeo says love makes him feel, “Shut up in prison”. That can be interpreted as a reference to what aspect of medieval culture?
Cathars
What kind of humor is illustrated when the Nurse remembers Juliet’s age by recalling, “I laid wormwood to my dug?”
bodily interruption
Who uses the following book metaphor for love? “read o’er the volume… book of love”
Lady Capulet
In what scene do we get an example of carnival interruption?
The scene where Romeo and his friends cousins wear masks into the Capulet’s ball.
What is meat by “bawdy innuendo” as theme in passage like the following? “… if love be rough with you, be rough with love! be rough with love”
wordplay
“inappropriate”
PG13 humor
Mercutio mocks love by referencing what character from English folklore?
Queen Mab
Identify the formal elements of the sonnet.
Line numbers:
Rhyme scheme:
Line numbers: 14 lines (4, 4, 4, 2)
Rhyme scheme: abab…cc
In his famous speech, Romeo says, “Juliet is the sun.” In what sense is that the dominant symbol and theme of the play?
He is saying that Juliet is attainable, marriable, and natural. The sun is the opposite of the unattainable moon.
Complete the statement, which is a dominant metaphor for Juliet, “My bounty is as boundless as the…”
sea
Who speaks the following, and what theme does it represent? “Virtue itself turns vice, being misapplied, And vice sometimes by action dignified. [examining a flower] Within the infant rind of this weak flower Poison hath residence and medicine power.”
Friar Lawrence; alchemy, in nature you have forces that are good and bad depending on the situation.
Who are “Laura, Cleopatra, Helen and Hero,” and who makes a reference to them and for what reason?
They are famous lovers and Mercutio makes a reference to them to mock Romeo and his romance.
Who says, “Now art thou what thou art?” and why (in what context)?
Mercutio; he let’s Romeo know that he is still one of the guys because he can do body innuendo.
When Juliet says, “Love’s heralds should be thoughts” what does it tell us about her character at this moment?
She is being romantic and feminine.
Who says, “Beautiful tyrant! fiend and what archetype is represented?
Good- bad boy
What is the symbolism in the following bird references? “It was the nightingale, and not the lark, That pierced the fearful hollow of thine ear.”
lark=day, nightingale=night
lark= attainable, nightingale= unattainable
It shows contrast.
Troubadour
What aspects of Juliet’s character do we see in this quote: “Or hide me nightly in a charnel-house O’er- covered quite with dead men’s rattling bones, With reeky shanks and yellow chapless skulls.”
Gothic imagination
