R+J Flashcards
What was Romeo and Juliet inspired by?
“The Tragicall Historye of Romeus and Juliet.”
Where did the plays take place?
1st quatrain, 2nd quatrain, 3rd quatrain, rhyming couplet → 14 lines → 10 syllables per line → 5 iambs per line→ in iambic pentameters → unstressed (u) stressed (/)
The Globe in London
Three issues with the Globe?
1) no light
2) bad weather
3) no sound system
How to mark up the test?
1st quatrain, 2nd quatrain, 3rd quatrain, rhyming couplet → 14 lines → 10 syllables per line → 5 iambs per line→ in iambic pentameters → unstressed (u) stressed (/)
Who was affected the most by love (write)?
1a) Romeo was most affected by love because he made many risky decisions in sacrifice for his beloved Juliet.
2a) Even after Romeo has a dream that he is going to experience an untimely death and that by going to the Montagues masque ball it will be the beginning of something bitter he chooses to go. He says that he will put his life into the hands of fate.
2b) After he meets, falls in love with Juliet, instead of listening to his earlier warning he decides to pursue Juliet and kisses her at the party and later that night on her balcony.
3a) He continues to go against his fate even though he knows it will lead to consequences, by planning to return to Verona after he was banished.
3b) After he was banished for the killing of Tybalt he and Friar Lawrence composed a plan to sneak back into the Verona. First he will lay low in Mantua then he can come back to Verona to have his special night with Juliet, see this friends, and then explain to Prince Escalus that R+J are married and it will solve the feud between the two families so that way they can be together. → He risks a lot by doing this because the punishment for coming back to Verona would be death.
4) And ofcourse at the end when he thinks that his wife is dead because of a miscommunication he chooses to commit suicide, losing everything, because his love for juliet is so heavy that he would rather die than live without Juliet.
