juliet

• Juliet


  Telling her mother that she hadn't really dreamed of the possibility of being married, which is a lie as she deeply fears the patriarchal arrangement of her father choosing her husband
• Juliet's mother was already married and had Juliet when she was 13 years old, while Juliet's father is now around 50 years old
• When Juliet first meets Romeo


  She tells him to work out a plan to get them married, as marriage is an escape from the patriarchal arrangement she knows her parents will impose on her
• Sonnet


  The form of a love poem that Romeo and Juliet speak together, sharing lines as they first meet, indicating they are falling in love at first sight
• The religious language they use to explore their sexual passion and attraction is blasphemous and sacrilegious
• Romeo tries to take the lead in the sonnet


  But Juliet is in control, telling him to kiss her on the lips
• Original sin


  The idea that women are naturally more manipulative, sinful, and evil than men, as seen in the story of Adam and Eve
• Shakespeare wants the audience to understand why Juliet would want to break society's rules, as she is forced to become manipulative and cunning to survive in an oppressive patriarchal society
• Juliet's soliloquy


  Suggests she is really interested in her sexual passion for Romeo rather than just love at first sight, and shows they are mismatched as a couple
• Juliet portrays Romeo as a feminine rose


  Hinting at the gender divisions in society and the mismatch between them
• Juliet imagining herself as the falconer controlling Romeo

  A sign of original sin, as women were seen as subservient to men in Elizabethan society
• Juliet asks Romeo to arrange their marriage


  Putting pressure on him, while also offering her dowry as a way to control the situation within the patriarchal conventions of the time
• Juliet sees herself as in control

  She says if thy purpose is marriage send me word tomorrow and romeo's gone okay i'll marry you
• Juliet tries to control Romeo


  By using the conventions of the patriarchal society, asking him to arrange the marriage
• Juliet introduces fortune as finance


  She says she will give Romeo her extreme wealth, showing she is negotiating the marriage
• Juliet associates love and sexuality with death


  She personifies night time as a black brown knight, a lover who's coming to see her, and links this to her own death
• Juliet imagines death as a lover coming to take her virginity


  This shows her obsession with her virginity, which has a high price in her society
• Juliet would rather her parents were dead than Romeo was banished

  This shows her immaturity and the terrible influence of her parents
• Juliet has to show complete subservience to her father

  She has to get on her knees, be polite, and is not allowed to speak, symbolising how society silences women
• Shakespeare pushes us to see the relationship as more about sexual passion than true love
• o happy dagger. this is thy sheathsexual interpretaion

  -sexual imagery dagger- phallic, sheath representing herself- yonic juliets desires of her sexual passion for romeon fuel her deatha central tragedy of the play
• o happy dagger. this is thy sheath masculinity/religon interpretaion


  the dagger represents romeo, he is to blame for her death and romeo damn her to hell. suicide is a sin in catholicism/christianity and leads to eternal damnation
• give me my romeo and when i shall die take him and cut him out of the stars


  juliet is imaging her death - links it to romeo,love to death (foreshadowing). die is also slang for orgasm juliet links sex to deathboutside of marrige sex is a sin. Romeo will die and be immortalised into the stars- linked to fate
• thy purpose of marriage send me a word tommorrow ... all my fortunes at thy foot l'll lay


  shows juliets maturity and extent she will go to choose her own partner and break free from patriarchal control. reveals her to be less naive and more practical, romeo later calls her father capulet, rich capulet due to this, wealth defines his perspective of their union. dramatic irony as they die before he gets the money, foreshadowed in the prologue.
• saints do not move through grant for prayers sake 


  religous imagery, sacreligous to use religous imagery to describe their lust for eachother. in the catholic church statues of saints are kissed or touched. romeo worships her juliet cannot make the first move as a woman, so she expresses it through language.