sex Flashcards

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I will push Montague’s men from the wall and thrust his maids to the wall

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thrust - sexual connotations
sesrvents say this in act 1 scene 1 which sets the mood for the play sugesting its a sexual play full of misogyny
shows what men thought at the time - objectification of women

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prick love for pricking and u prick love down

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mecutio
sexual implications
basically saying have sex and u lose ur erection and that romeo’ll stop hurting from unrequited loe if he goes and penetrates something
suggests mecutios jokey attitude / how hes the light hearted one

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Come, gentle night, come, loving black-browed night,
Give me my Romeo, and when I shall die,
Take him and cut him out in little stars

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repetion of come shows us her strong desire
die - elizabethan slang for an orgasm
image of romeo cut into little stars - metaphore for sexual ecstasy
die, cut - violent images, reminds us that in this play sex and love arent far apart

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