Romeo and juliet

• Romeo act 1

  • patrachan lover (he’s in a state of melancholy due To his unrequited Love
  • unrequited - one sided
  • ornamental - Romeo’s view on women, he objectifies woman almost making them seem like ornaments
  • Iambic pentameter- the way he speaks, typically assosiated with high status characters
  • determinism - integral idea within the Elizabethan era, the idea that actions are predetermined and you can’t escape your fate
  • celestial bodies - links with deterministic and ElizabethIan beliefs ( the stars, the moon, the planets, fate )
• "A plague o' both your houses!" - mercutio
• "I am fortune's fool" - Mercutio
• "O happy dagger! This is thy sheath; there rust, and let me die." - Juliet
• "O happy dagger! This is thy sheath; there rust, and let me die" - Romeo
• Romeo act 1 scene 1 (Rosaline)


  ‘For beauty, starved with her severity,/ cuts beauty off from all posterity’. - he is forlorn and despondent, the emphasis that Romeo places on Rosalines Aesthetic shows him to be materialistic and vain. ‘Posterity’ demonstrates that often woman of this era were seen, by young men, as simply vessels for childbearing. -de-humanising woman, objectifying view or woman, valuing them purely for their physical appearance
• Romeo act 1 scene 1


  ’she hath foresworn to love, and in that vow / do i live dead that live to tell it now‘

  • romeo makes rosalines personal vow of charity about himself ( virginity ). The person pronoun ‘I’ is hugely demonstrative of his self-absorbed, narcissistic qualities.