Juliet

• madam i am here, what is your will - submissive women and the patriarchy


  addresses her mother formally using the pronoun 'mother' - poses a question, demonstrating immense respect she is expected to show as a daughter
• how art thou out of breath when thou hast breath / to say to me that thou art out of breath - submissive women and the patriarchy


  repetition sounds light hearted and she is indignant - tone she would not use with her mother - clearly closer with her nurse than her mother
• i long to die / if (...you...) speak not of remedy - submissive women and the patriarchy


  tone is far more unfiltered than it is with her father or mother - possibly more unfiltered with nurse and friar lawrence as they are of lower status
• learned (...) to repent - submissive women and the patriarchy


  'repent' - religious imagery and in context of her pretence (act) it seems she is ridiculing religion as she is ridiculing passive woman by pretending to be her - ridiculing her in the eyes of the audience
• henceforward i am ever ruled by you - submissive women and the patriarchy


  noun 'ruled' seems a superfluous addition to her lines to her father - emphasises her lack of free will but seems unnecessary to say this if not to ridicule how ridiculous her position is
• lips that they must use in prayer - folly of youth


  mention of 'saints' - parodies religion in that she is unconventionally sexually forwards and foreshadows her hastiness in her later eloping
• you kiss by the book - folly of youth


  shows she is at least a little apprehensive about rashness of their affair
• it is too rash, too unadvised, too sudden - folly of youth


  passion does not entirely consume her - seems to be aware that her professions (expressions) of desire are too hasty (quick) as she claims that - listing of reasons why they shouldn't be together shows fraction of doubt
• wedding bed / maidenhead - folly of youth


  rhyming couplets combined with imagery of love evoked by 'maidenhead' puts emphasis on line showing love to supersede hate - womens virginity was valued highly and willingness to give up her maidenhead shows extreme vulnerability and trust
• romeo (...) i drink to thee - folly of youth


  puts grim spin on convention of drinking to celebrate and drinks the potion - love shown to have made her impetuous and rash in decision making, becoming desperate and willing to risk anything to be with her love, even death
• thy lips are warm - folly of youth


  warm connotes familiarity and love validating her rashness if she gains so much out of her love for romeo - at end, we see they truly love each other deeply and rashness doesnt seem as crazy
• an honour i dream not of - juliet change


  starts play passive, using 'honour' noun to distract from idea she is not keen to marry - compliant nature indicates her to be aware of the expectations placed upon her by parents
• look to like if looking liking move - juliet change


  earliest signs of later rebellion that it to come in subtle assertion of agency - alliterative sounds show her asserting that agency over her language
• no longer be a capulet - juliet change


  shows she is wiling to forgo (renounce) her lineage (family) for this man she has just met - declaration exemplifies her to be impulsive and fervid (passionate) in the way she loves which makes the start of her change
• he shall not make me there a joyful bride - juliet change


  juxtaposition between 'not' and 'joyful bride' parodies the way women were expected to be obedient and spineless and exemplifies her change as a character - more headstrong in asserting her will
• endart mine eye, than (her father's) consent gives strength to make it fly - conflict and obligation


  juliet is conflicted through whole play - here she is inflicted between not wanting to endart her eye and also pleasing her parents - feels a sense of obligation to do as they please
• lips that they must use in prayer - conflict and obligation


  religious imagery evoked by 'prayer' shows conflict she feels between feeling lustful but wanting to remain chaste to please her parents and society
• all my fortunes at thy foot i'll lay - conflict and obligation


  'foot' reminds us that trust juliet is placing in romeo and evokes a sense of worship towards him and yet 'fortunes' reminds us of all she is risking and the conflict she feels due to the risk
• let day in, let life out - conflict and obligation


  accurately summarises obligation she feels to let romeo leave but how depressed she is about it - she is haunted by obligation and the dramatically ironic thing is later on her father orders her to marry paris yet another obligation - unable to escape conflict and obligation
• to make me die with a restorative - conflict and obligation


  only in death can juliet escape her life full of conflict and obligations hence why she views suicide as 'restorative' - ironic that she talks of death in a way that connotes life but her death has more appeal and is more healing than life
• then have my lips the sin that they took - love


  love is shown to be a corrupting influence on juliet - 'sin' characterises their love as wrong or unnatural - connotes temptation
• i must confess (...) my true loves passion - love


  ideas are religion evoked with 'confession' and shows love to be strong, something that she can no longer keep to herself
• beast (...for...) chid(ing) him - love


  sudden change in tone is demonstrative of the power of love in that it is just as strong as a hate
• (talking about her face) it is not mine own - love


  in the absence of love juliet is depersonalised - becomes a shadow of her former self and lacks qualities that maker her herself
• will be brife - love


  ending her life as quickly as possible - harsh reminder how desperate she is to be it's her lover in death, spending the whole play speaking about her feelings and using language to express herself - when it comes to death, she is brief, no desire to live in a world without love and is thus shown to be a drug she cannot live without