Romeo Grade 9

• ACT ONE, “give me my sin again” 


  The term “sin“ implies that he knows his family society, and God will be disapproving, and it is thus unscrupulous. The word also connotative temptation showing that he is willing to fey them.

  He extends Juliet’s metaphor; “let my lips have the sin again“ they should be romantic, but the romance is dumped by the impending sense of doom.

  He subvert the excitingly seductive connotations of kiss, turning it into a grim enchantment of Romeo’s fate.
• ACT ONE, “For beauty stabbed with her severity, cuts beauty off from all posterity”


  The emphasis that Romeo places on Rosaline beauty shows him to be material stick and vain. His depthless ornamental of the women depicts him as Childlike and rash in his perception of love.

  he also lacks any violent characteristics at the beginning of the play and is a patroon lover, melancholic and almost feminine in use of couplets and iambic pentameter, which makes his language seem flowery and obsequious.
• ACT ONE, “some awful destiny that will result in my own untimely death”


  “awful destiny” is Grimley for boarding, and it shows the power of fate to be so fast that even the characters in the world of the play can feel it effects.

  Inspires a sort of nihilistic reaction on the part of the audience as Romeo was actions are predetermined and doomed for death so to hope otherwise is foolish.
• ACT ONE, “did my heart love till now forswear it sight, for I ne‘er so true beauty tell this night”


  He faithfully encounters, Juliet.

  if you had not gone to the capulet ball he would have been deprived of true ”love” Which gives rise to theories of free will and determination.
• how is Romeo‘s violence and love contrasted.

  Romeo’s capacity for such deep love is a contrast to his later revealed capacity for violence. This is also his harmatia as he is too passionate in both in love and violence.
• Romeo’s comparison between Juliet and Rosaline.

  Exemplifies that Romeo is primarily drawn to beauty as Rosaline was unattainable with very few defining traits other than being beautiful, whereas Juliet is fiery and defiant, both women lack any common traits proving that Romeo values beauty above all traits.
• what effects does the prologue have on the scenes between Romeo and Juliet in act one?

  The prologue certainly amplifies the tone of the determination with the knowledge of the prologue. The passionately romantic scene is rather hauntingly, ominous as the events that were told all began to unfold.
• how are Romeo’s actions viewed?

  The concept that Romeo has no free will allows his actions to be viewed less as a character flaw and rather objectively.
• what is Romeo’s Harmatia?

  His Harmatia being impulsivity and tendency towards violence, rather than being a defect can be considered as a narrative tool.
• ACT TWO, “ there lies more peril in thine eyes than twenty of their swords” 


  He implies love to be a dangerous thing with this line, capable of causing far more pain than any physical weapon, which shows he is distorted, extreme view of love and shows him to be hasty in the way he loves that he is willing to sacrifice his entire life for a woman he met.

  Overall, the quote is trying to say that a look from Juliet might cause more danger than his enemies sword.
• ACT TWO, “ death, prorogued, wanting of thy love”


  It is clear that he is willing to surmount any obstacle and would rather die than to be without Juliet. This shows him to be extreme in the view Of love yet also highlights his impulsive nature, being his Haramtia.

  Also Demonstrates clearly the dire implication of the generational feud.
• ACT TWO, “for limits cannot hold love out” 


  “stony limits” acts as a metaphor for their families, preventing them from being together. Romeo dispels any notion that he is not willing to clear any wall for her and is thus extension willing to ignore his family‘s feud with hers, to be with her.

  Generational feud are shown to cause much unnecessary collateral damage.
• ACT TWO, “ with loves wings in my did my o’erperch these walls” 


  The metaphor he employs evokes Cupid, which is a classical reference with “loves wings” that love is powerful enough to overcome physical boundaries.

  He speaks in iambic pentameter, showing he is romantic and decorative in language and that love takes priority over the family.
• ACT TWO, “ good morning father” 


  Romeo’s greeting for the friar. He is a priest and this acts as a double entendre for Romeo as he sees him as a father figure.
• ACT TWO, “ love devouring death do what he dare” 


  The desire to marry Juliet comes from the fact that he has been socialized it is necessary and is manipulated by the friar so we can end the family feud.

  Shakespeare criticizes marriage as it is not made for love, but for something else showing that it has lost value.

  Marriage is necessary to show love.
• ACT THREE, “thy beauty hath made me effeminate”


  This shows violence to be inherently masculine trait and implying being a “effeminate” to be an inferior trait.
• ACT THREE, “ my reputation stained with tybalts slander” 


  The idea of reputation is patriarchal concept, which is derived from men, taking pride in their good reputations and acting with violence against anyone who might threaten it.

  In his language, he retains his iambic pentameter showing his effeminate expression of language.
• ACT THREE, “exile hath more terror in his look” 


  When he sentenced to exile, he is unhappy because he is separated from Juliet.

  He personifies “exile” he makes it more tangible and thus horrifying.

  The religious imagery compares the absence of heaven to purgatory as they are similar to hell and so is the absence of love.
• ACT THREE, “yon grey is not the mornings eye” 


  personifies morning, giving it human features which portrays it as human like a force that he conquers.

  On the morning of his exile, he ignore the signs of dawn he asserts wrongly trying to ignore the passage of time.

  He is losing power quickly, as the scene goes on he says “it is not day” though it is evident that it is.
• ACT THREE, “O I am fortunes fool!” 


  “Fortunes fool” almost inspires a sort of nihilistic reaction on the part of the audience in the sense that if Romeo actions are predetermined and doomed for death. The concept of control is an illusion.
• why does Romeo beg for death multiple times in the play?

  Even though he begs for death But There is dramatic irony at play we know due to the prologue it is not time for his death just yet.
• how is Mercutio a foil character to Romeo?

  This is a scene when mercutio is jesting and joking, even while dying and Romeo is passionate and emotional.

  The two characters balance each other out, maintaining an equilibrium upon his death the equilibrium is eradicated. The comic relief disappears and the play becomes full tragedy.
• Romeo does not appear physically in act four this could be because…

  Having Romeo absent from the scene ensures that the audience is deprived of the romantic scenes the lovers which they enjoy because they are encouraged to route for the protagonist. Thus they feel the same longing for the pair to be reunited.
• ACT FIVE, “I defy you stars” 


  He addresses the stars with the personal pronoun “you” as though they might reply. Not only does this paint his mental state to be disintegrating but also the vast impact the “stars” had on him to the point where they feel like a tangible force to him that he can address.
• ACT FIVE, “Lie with thee tonight” 


  Romeo is still sure that he is able to bypass his fate in death, this demonstrates how faith is a impossible force to outsmart-the notion that he spent his final breaths trying is ironic and demonstrative of the immense power of celestial bodies.

  The verb “lies” has connotations of peace and rest he will find with Juliet in death, dramatically ironic as he is seeking his fate.
• how would a Elizabeth an audience react to the sense of fate.

  Elizabethans were remarkably superstitious in regards to the celestial bodies.
• what could Rome and Juliet be a retelling of?

  Ovids Pyramus and Thisbe, who were the original star-crossed lovers.
• ACT FIVE, “Lightning before death”


  after he kills Paris the final act of violence he commit is. against himself.

  In order To feel the “lightning” he feels at the prospect of being freed from his burdens and united in death with his lover, so he must be on the verge of “death”.
• ACT FIVE, ”here I set up my everlasting rest” 


  Contrast between the idea of death that the adjective “everlasting” connotations the verb “rest” is representative of the union of love and violence.

  The union of the two seemingly contradicting terms seem to portray the concept that humans are complex creatures whose contradicting natures often overlap.
• ACT FIVE, “Thus with a kiss I die“


  Shakespeare characters, place a high value on family and believe it to be more important than any other relationship. But here, Romeo values love first, the syntactical closeness of “kiss” and “die” show him to value Juliet over his family which thus shows how generational feuds create a gap between parents and children who are naïve to the origin of it.