Themes Flashcards
Plan for conflict essay
Opening: conflict as deep rooted
- opening brawl including Tybalt, Benvolio, personal spills into public streets
- how patriarchy instils violence
- no origins of feud, pointless
Middle: conflict within family, reasons for inner conflict (honour)
- Capulet and Tybalt arguing about fighting at Masquerade (generational differences)
- Capulet insulting Juliet about not marrying Paris (excessive power)
- shows how violence within family roots from patriarchy
- inner conflict between RJ
End: conflict as futile and detrimental
- patriarchy forces Romeo to kill Paris
- love always beating hate, two seemed intertwined
- death of Romeo and Juliet as catalysts for mending feud, younger generation has to pay for older gen conflict -> no origins
Plan for family essay
Opening: family as disjointed
- Juliet closer to Nurse, Juliet not comfortable to express her emotions
- Romeo closer to Friar
- Montague employs Benvolio to find out about melancholy of Romeo (lack of fatherly presence)
Middle: patriarchy instilled in family/ generational divide within family
- Capulet becoming aggressive against Juliet
- Lady Capulet defends but then follows patriarchy
- family going from loving to controlling
End: demonstrates how a family should be (obsession over obedience< love, affection)
- breakdown of family relationships causing destruction
- death of RJ, acts as a catalyst for families to change their old ways
- peaceful with other families, no conflict
Plan for love essay
Opening: lustful view of love - toxic masculinity
- Romeo’s lustful love for Rosaline which paints love as painful (petrarchan lover)
- Mercutio’s view of love being sex
Middle: generational views of love
- Romeo and Juliet genuine love for each other, defying societal norms
- Nurse lies with older generation but still helps Juliet
- Capulet seeing love as a means of preserving honour
End: love as powerful, ruling their minds, transformative
- Romeo and Juliet’s death
- love supersedes hate as seen with mending of feud, instils a live between families
Plan for fate essay
Opening: fate as prewritten and structurally embedded
- prologue shows fate fate as unchangeable
- dramatic irony created
- removes suspense to shift focus on how it happens, inevitability of fate
Middle: fate’s power shown through coincidences and mistiming
- Romeo meets illiterate servant who invites him to Capulet ball
- killing in A3S1 sets of a chain of emotion by chance
- plague in Mantua prevents FL’s letter reaching Romeo, massive consequences
End: didactic
- fate as tangible force
- becomes moral forcing older generation to see consequences of feud
- fate punishes collective responsibility not just individuality, importance of community
- cyclical structure - power of fate
- speed of play (4-5days) sense of inevitable momentum, fate is rushing things
Plan for generational divide
Opening: power of older generation, patriarchy (differing views on honour)
- controlling Tybalt
- submission of Tybalt to Capulet
Middle: differing views on love (status vs happiness)
- Capulet sees it as a means to increase honour or transactional
- RJ see love as a genuine bond
- FL and Nurse act as bridges who side with younger despite more traditional beliefs, shows ability for understanding despite differences
End: impulsivity of younger generation
- lack of acceptance from older gen causes impulsivity of RJ
- R&J’s ability to transcend social construct of feud is learnt by older gen
Essay plan for honour
Opening: generational divide on honour
- Tybalts belief of Romeo threatening his honour of family
- Capulet preserving honour (social status/appearance) by controlling Tybalt
- honour seen through impulsive vs performative
Middle: honour through love
- Capulet sees honour through the transactional marriage
- RJ see it through genuine connection
- traditional love forces rebellion not support
End: redefined honour - peace, love, empathy
- RJ show the skewed definition of honour as not important
- death of RJ leads to understanding of what true honour is
