Juliet

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  Point - Juliet is a victim of society forced to be submissive and compliant yet shows signs of rebellion and subverts traditional Elizabethan expectations

  Quotes - ‘It is an honour I dream not of’

  ‘What lamb, what ladybird’
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  Point - Juliet lacks maternal love so looks to fill that void elsewhere causing her to make rash decision. She becomes dangerously passionate in her pursuit for love possibly Shakespeare warning against the folly of the youth

  Quotes - ’Juliet is the sun’

  ‘And’ll no longer be a Capulet’

  ‘It is too rash, too unadvised, too sudden, too like lighting‘
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  Point - Obligation is a burden to Juliet throughout the whole play causing her to get treated like a voiceless object that can be controlled and becomes a hindrance when defiant in society

  Quote - ‘I beseech you on my knees’
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  Point - Juliet has become delirious and impetuous as a product of a corrupt patriarch against women

  Quote - ‘ I long to die’
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  Point -Juliet has been pushed to desperation to join her lover in death. Throughout the play Juliet expresses herself but in her death she is sudden and abrupt. Yet she shows emotional strength as she doesn’t want to become a product of her parents

  Quote - ‘ O happy dagger there rust and let me die‘
• ‘It is an honour I dream not of’

  Independence, subverts traditional societal obligations, strong willed despite harsh gender inequalities
• ‘What lamb, what ladybird’

  Zoomorphic imagery shows value, individualism, lack of maternal bond fills void of emotional absent mother, nurse sees the youth innocence and delicacy
• ‘Juliet is the sun’

  Victim of objectification, compared to light foreshadows tragic end as light eventually becomes darkness, shows visceral beauty and innocence, focuses on physical beauty not emotional beauty
• ‘And I’ll no longer be a Capulet’

  Naivety, consumed by passion, declaration of pure love for Romeo, willing to forgo her whole lineage for a man she just met
• ‘It is too rash, too unadvised, too sudden, too like lightning’

  Explosive foreshadowing potential destruction, impermanent potential to damage, believed Gods controlled the weather so warning from God, conflicting, complex emotions
• ‘ I beseech you on my knees’

  Constant disregard for obligation, emotionally distressed, fighting independence for her beliefs, rebellious and sinful to parents
• ‘I long to die’

  Longs for Romeos love, hysteria links to that of Romeos, Shakespeare’s criticism of reckless passion, becomes interconnected with Romeos insanity
• ‘O happy dagger there rust and let me die’

  Tragic desperation, shows love is powerful and dangerous force, overall dependent on Romeo criticising society for taking her independence, honourable death that symbolises progressive nature, she dies unafraid and brave which subverts traditional gender stereotypes
• Vessel through which Shakespeare challenges the Patriarchal society and celebrates female independence
• Represents a post-Reformation society

  that was becoming less oppressed, though the duality between progression

  and tradition that permeates her life could also warn against quick, reckless

  change.