Romeo and juliet
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- Created on: 28-01-18 13:01
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- Romeo + Juliet
- Characters
- Romeo M
- Romantic-"love is smoke made with the fume of sighs"
- Hot Headed-"fire-ey'd fury be my conduct now!
- Respected-"a virtuous governed youth"
- Childish and Unrealistic-"thy love did not read by rote"
- Romeo thinks he knows love form the books but has never experienced it
- Juliet C
- Beautiful-" The brightness of her cheek would shame those stars"
- Romantic-"love is smoke made with the fume of sighs"
- Romantic-"My bounty is boundless as the sea, My love as deep: the more i give to thee The more i have, for both are infinite.
- Independent-"My dismal scene i needs must act alone"
- This means that no-one else can know about her faking her death
- Brave-"go get thee hence, for i will not away"
- young-"Not fourteen"
- This tells us that in the modern day she is to young to get married.
- In context with the era is was not un-usual for a girl to get married so young and too an older man
- In context with the era is was not un-usual for a girl to get married so young and too an older man
- This tells us that in the modern day she is to young to get married.
- Beautiful-" The brightness of her cheek would shame those stars"
- Merctio
- Lively-"you have dancing shoes With nimble soles"
- Talkative-"Peace, peace, Merctio, peace. Thou talk'st of nothing"
- Cynical attitude to love and can be a bit rude to romeo.
- Tybalt-Juliet's cousin
- agressive- "...talk of peace? i hate the word"
- Loyal-" Now by the stock and honor of my kin"
- He kills Merctio and Romeo kills him in revenge
- Benvolio- Romeo's cousin
- Peaceful-"i do but keep the peace, put thy sword"
- Kind-"What sadness lengthens Romeo's hours?"
- Romeo M
- Context
- The Church had a big influence in the 16th century
- You had to pay a fine if you didn't go to church.
- Both romeo and Juliet commit suicide and it was seen as a sin
- The Church had a big influence in the 16th century
- You had to pay a fine if you didn't go to church.
- The Church had a big influence in the 16th century
- Marriage
- sometimes marriage was for money not for love
- Family and marriage is normally positive.
- Shakespeare has used this to represent the feud and love and honor can cause conflict.
- Conflict
- Everyone cares about honor and this makes it hard to Romeo and Juliet t be together.
- Shakespeare shows that the families are drawn into duels and find it hard to ignore duels.
- Romeo and Juliet die because of the conflict between the families, because honor is more important that lives.
- The Church had a big influence in the 16th century
- Themes
- Love
- Romeo thinks he is in love with Rosaline this can be shown by "in sadness"
- Romeo doesn't know what love is he has only read about it
- "you kiss by the book"
- Romeo is a good kisser but has no emotion yet because they only just met.
- The love in the play can seem like a love so strong that they can't live without it or can seem as though it is immature madness.
- Romeo thinks he is in love with Rosaline this can be shown by "in sadness"
- Fate
- Romeo thinks he can feel "some consquence yet hanging in the stars" and he worries that fate is against him.
- This darkens the play and adds a sense of not accepting responsibility for his decisions.
- Friar Laurence suggest a dangerous plan and doesn't think through the dangers that could happen.
- Romeo and Juliet were to in love to make decisions and should have taken things slower.
- Juliet parents didn't pay attention to what Juliet wanted
- Romeo thinks he can feel "some consquence yet hanging in the stars" and he worries that fate is against him.
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