Romeo & Juliet - The Complete Play with Annotations, Audio and Knowledge Organisers

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Here, the chorus tells the audience the outcome of events to build dramatic irony and create tension When Juliet is disowned for defying the social norms , Shakespeare shows the impact of family conflict in Renaissance culture Once Romeo is set up in heaven as a star, he will make the face of heaven so fine or beautiful and charming.

Tybalt enters with a group of cronies. He approaches Benvolio and Mercutio and asks to speak with one of them. Annoyed, Mercutio begins to taunt and provoke him. A soliloquy is used in drama to represent the character revealing their true feelings, adding authenticity to Juliet’s controversial dialogue As Elizabethans held their family name in high esteem, here, Juliet is attempting to overthrow the s tatus quo After Capulet and Lady Capulet storm away, Juliet asks her nurse how she might escape her predicament. The Nurse advises her to go through with the marriage to Paris—he is a better match, she says, and Romeo is as good as dead anyhow. Though disgusted by her nurse’s disloyalty, Juliet pretends to agree, and tells her nurse that she is going to make confession at Friar Lawrence’s. Juliet hurries to the friar, vowing that she will never again trust the Nurse’s counsel. If the friar is unable to help her, Juliet comments to herself, she still has the power to take her own life.In Act I, Scene V, Tybalt foreshadows further conflict by showing his bitterness towards Romeo, his enemy As the play was written for Queen Elizabeth I , Shakespeare could be mirroring her own challenges within forbidden relationships In the first scene when Benvolio informs Romeo there has been a fight, Romeo tells Benvolio he believes the feud is fueled by hatred stemming from love Does Romeo claim to have never seen true beauty till he saw Juliet How does he justify this statement? Act 2, scene 5 Juliet waits impatiently for the Nurse to return. Her impatience grows when the Nurse, having returned, is slow to deliver Romeo’s message. Finally Juliet learns that if she wants to marry Romeo, she need only go to Friar Lawrence’s cell that afternoon.

Juliet gives glimpses of her determination, strength, and sober-mindedness, in her earliest scenes, and offers a preview of the woman she will become during the four-day span of Romeo and Juliet. While Lady Capulet proves unable to quiet the Nurse, Juliet succeeds with one word (also in Act 1, scene 3). In addition, even in Juliet’s dutiful acquiescence to try to love Paris, there is some seed of steely determination. Juliet promises to consider Paris as a possible husband to the precise degree her mother desires. While an outward show of obedience, such a statement can also be read as a refusal through passivity. Juliet will accede to her mother’s wishes, but she will not go out of her way to fall in love with Paris. This system placed God at the top, followed by angels, noble-men, men, women and then animals and plants Meanwhile, Benvolio meets Romeo and learns that Romeo is madly in love with Rosaline, who does not love him and insists on remaining chaste. In the first scene, male servants of the two families begin a petty fight for sheer amusement, suggesting the prevalence of male conflict in Elizabethan lifeNext, she asks the night to set Romeo up in heaven as a star so that he will make the face of heaven beautiful and charming. She hopes that when that happens, ‘all the world will be in love with night and will not pay attention to the overbright or lurid sun’. In short, love belongs to Juliet now that she is married, but she does not own it, and she can’t own love until Romeo possesses her. That is why there are so much longing and impatience in her request tonight. Shakespeare could be criticising conflict based on religious differences, and instead promoting peace Mercutio, neither a Montague nor a Capulet, is killed in the feud, alluding to the deaths of innocent bystanders in the name of family honour

Romeo uses two similes to describe Juliet’s extraordinary beauty. The first simile is deployed in the linesBoth Romeo and Juliet employ contrasting images in their expression of appreciation and admiration for each other. Elaborate.

Juliet’s nurse represents this bond as she is Juliet’s first source of advice and comfort rather than her mother Shakespeare uses Mercutio’s dialogue to provide comedic and light relief from the intensity of other scenes Juliet’s oxymoron , reflected in other lines that liken her marriage to a grave, suggests an awareness of the danger of loving her enemy

Shakespeare sets his play in Verona, Italy, perhaps to create Ambiguity and distance between the parallels of the Capulet and Montague feud and the one raging in England between Catholics and Protestants Whose misadventured piteous overthrows do with their death bury their parent's strife ” The chorus, The Prologue Juliet was eager to be with Romeo. So she invokes both the night and Romeo to come along with it so that he comes to her unseen by others. She believes that Romeo is ‘day in the night to her and hence his presence alone will make her night bright to her. Then, once she is possessed by Romeo, her ‘love’ will have been realized. Later, after her death, she wants the ‘night to set up Romeo amongst the stars so that he will make the face of heaven beautiful and make the people forget the shining sun. This way she wants their love to be immortalized. The lines spoken by Romeo are taken from Act I Scene V when Romeo happens to see Juliet for the first time in the party hosted by the Capulets. Both Romeo and Juliet do not know each other.