romeo character profile Flashcards
What is his role in Romeo and Juliet?
A tragic hero
Verona brags of him, bears him… - described as someone with self control and a sense of propriety
Verona brags of him, bears him like a partly gentleman.
What is Romeos tragic flaw?
He falls in love too easily and is impetuous and impulsive
Who outlines his flaw, give a quote?
The friar - “love moderately.”
What two things does Romeos name mean?
Wandered and Palmer
Sick… , “Cold…” and “Loving…”- shows his youth and idealised notions of romance
Sick health, “cold fire”, “loving hate.”
Brawling… - shows love and violence is intertwined
Brawling love. - two key themes
What verse does he speak in in comparison to how he speaks to Juliet? - shows his deep and true love for Juliet
Blank verse
Vanity. - Who is this about and why?
Rosaline. Lack of real value, showing his love for Rosaline wasn’t truthful and just desire
How does Romeo objectify Rosaline?
Never mentioning her as a person and just an appearance
Not truly in … - shows young men (Romeo) love superficially and not in their hearts
Not truly in their hearts, but their eyes.
Snowy… - symbolises innocence and peace. What else does the final word symbolise?
Snowy dove. - the goddess of love, sexuality and war.
Rich jewel… - contrasts light and dark, and shows Juliet is precious and all over
Rich jewel in Ethiopes ear.
True… - Romeo and “True…” - Juliet. Shows the love was honest and honourable, and links to courtly love.
True beauty. And “True Knight.”
Holy… - shows the sacred love and how Juliet was godly and he was devoted and dedicated to her. What does this mean for the audience and conflict?
Holy shrine. - it’s blasphemous and he is now in conflict with religion
What might be the symbolism of the blasphemy?
The gods are punishing them for it, fate and love
Juliet is… - describes her as a celestial being, he can’t live without her and foreshadows his death
Juliet is the sun.
Arise, fair sun.. - shows the goddess of virginity and how the gods are envious of their romance - contrasts light and dark
Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon.
What is the moon as a goddess? What’s her name?
Diana
I am… - impetuous and impulsive and feels fate controls him
I am fortunes fool.
Adjective that describes him as losing his masculinity
effeminate.
What two situations show the two sides to Romeo? Which conflict is this?
When he refuses to fight tybalt, then kills him after he slaughters mercutio- shows his conflicts with masculinity
Why does his death seem effeminate?
He died without pain, and he died quietly and not fighting
Her beauty makes… - she is a source of light in the darkness of the tomb
Her beauty makes/ This vault a feasting presence full of light.
That unsubstantial… - dramatic irony as she isn’t dead , shows he died in passion
That unsubstantial Death is so amorous.
How does Romeo speak of Juliet? Where does this link back to? What does it mean?
In sonnets and iambic pentameter - the prologue, intertwined fate and love
What shows Romeo knows love by poems and books but not real life? “Thy love..”
Thy love did read by rote.
You kiss… - Juliet thinks he’s a good kisser but lacks emotion
You kiss by th’book.
Some consequence… - darkens atmosphere, fate is against him
Some consequence yet still hangs in the stars.
