opposing POV

• What play does Shakespeare include numerous speeches and scenes in?

  Romeo and Juliet
• What are the two main devices Shakespeare uses to evaluate the play?

  Mercutio and servants
• How does Mercutio view Romeo's devotion to love?

  As a blindness that robs him of himself
• What does Mercutio think of Tybalt's devotion to honor?

  He sees it as blind and stupid
• What do Mercutio's punning and the Queen Mab speech do in the play?

  They undercut virtually every passion evident
• What role does Mercutio serve in relation to other characters?

  As a critic of their delusions of righteousness
• What is Mercutio's social status in the play?

  He is a nobleman
• How do the views offered by servants differ from those of nobles?

  They are less explicit and more grounded
• Who is the Nurse in the play?

  A character who lost her baby and husband
• What is notable about the servant Peter?

  He cannot read
• What do the musicians in the play care about?

  Their lost wages and lunches
• What is the Apothecary's financial situation?

  He cannot afford to make a moral choice
• What do the lower classes present in the play?

  A second tragic world to counter nobility
• How is the nobles' world characterized in the play?

  Full of grand tragic gestures
• What characterizes the servants' world in contrast to the nobility?

  Simple needs and early deaths from poverty
• How do the nobles react to tragedy in the play?

  They seem to revel in their capacity for drama
• What prevents the servants from affording epic tragedy?

  Their lives are constrained by simple needs