romeo and juliet -`♡´-

• 'thats my good son' act 2 scene 3 friar Laurence
• 'young men's love then lies not truly with their hearts but in their eyes' act 2 scene 3 friar laurence.
• 'these violent delight shave violent ends' act 2 scene 3 friar laurence
• 'art thou a man thy years are womanish' act 3 scene 3
• 'madam i am here what is your will' act 1 scene 2 juliet
• 'he shall not make me their joyful bride!' act 3 scene 5
• 'happy dagger, let me die' act 5 scene 3 juliet
• 'hang thee young baggage disobedient wretch' act 1 scene 5
• 'i do but keep the peace' act 1 scene 1 benvolio
• 'juliet is the sun' act 2 scene 2
• 'i defy you stars' act 5 scene 1 romeo
• 'thou wretched boy' act 3 scene 1 tybalt
• 'if love be rough with you be rough with love' act 1 scene 4
• ' a plague o both you houses' act 3 scene 1
• tragedy- serious drama with an unhappy ending
• the prologue- brief outline of the play, explains how there is conflict between two families 'alike in dignity' which means same social status and two lovered who ' star cross'd lovers take their life' and this is the only thing that will 'bury their parents strife'
• characterisation- what they say what they do and how others react to them
• the conflict between 2 noble families is shown as infectious as its spread to lower class. infectious has a semantic field with disease and contamination
• the street brawl and ancient grudge is the rife of the streets of verona
• ' down with the capulets, down with the montagues.' act 1 scene 1 street brawl civilians
• anger and hatred is rotting society
• prince represents law and order
• act 1 scene 1 the prince is choking on his anger through the breaking of his speech and looses his rhythem '-'
• prince act 1 scene 1 ' you men, you beasts'
• the prince act 1 scene 1 ' quench the fire of your pernicious rage with purple fountains issuing from your veins' - noble and royal blood involved in anger although fountains and purple is associated with elegency
• ' three civil brawls, bred of an airy word' futile fights
• your lives shall pay he forfeit of the peace' prince act 1 scene 1
• on pain of death, all men depart' act 1 scene 1 violence fought with violence
• social codes of honour are more important then la
• the prince wants peace but cant restrain violence between montagues and capulets. if the prince cant doing anything about the flued it means that the law (which the prince embodies) is powerless against the passions of hate and love
• shakespere presents the prince as a figure of authority who seeks to curb the destructive violence between montagues and capulets, reflecting concerns about law and order and civil unrest in elizabthian england. through the princes frustration , determination and warnings the play comments on the futility of violence and destructive consequences of unchecked aggression.
• Uses personification and imagery to emphasise Tybalt’s brutal, fruitless aggression

  • as his sword ‘cut the winds’ who ‘hissed him in scorn’. He represents Tybalt as a brutal thug who is mocked and despised by man and nature.
• marriage was complicated for upper class of nobility in shakespere england and u must obtain the blessing of the church and most marriages were arranged
• courtship- young nobility allowed todate but no physical touch was permitted.
• courtley love- passionate , obsessive and idling

  love
• act 1 scene 2, uses oxymoron romeo to represent his unstable mental state due to love ' cold v fire'
• romeo act 1, scene 2 rosaline, love has deranged his brain and the oxymoron has unsterilised his mental state and love has done this he is not him self ' hes somewhere else ' love is viewed as madness to him
• benvolio act 1 scene 2, 'examine other beauty's

  ' balanced and emotionally stable
• ' my child is yet a stranger to the world' lord capulet act 1 , scene 2
• 'ripe to be a bride' lord capulet act 1 scene 2