act 1 Flashcards
Prologue: Theme- Fate
Chorus: “ a pair of ____ ________‘d lovers take their ____”
“ a pair of star cross’d lovers take
their life”
Analysis:
- controlled by Fate (ill-fated)
Scene 1: Theme- Conflict
Benvolio: “I do but ____ the _____”
“I do but keep the peace”
Analysis:
-Benvolio is a peacemaker and the foil to Tybalt
Scene 1: Theme- Conflict
Prince: “If ever you _______ our ______ again, your lives shall pay the
_______ of the peace”
“If ever you disturb our streets
again, your lives shall pay the
forfeit of the peace”
Analysis:
-Prince threatening them with death
-foreshadows death of a family member
Scene 1: Theme- Courtley love/ Conflict
Romeo: “O ________love, O loving ____”
“O brawling love, O loving hate”
Analysis:
-Oxymoron-> confusing feelings, internal conflict -> effects of courtly love
Scene 1: Theme- Courtly Love
Romeo: “This is not ______, he’s some
other _______”
“This is not Romeo, he’s some
other where”
Analysis:
-subverting masculine stereotypes-> hik showing his emotions contrasts to other men
- emotions have changed him-> doesn’t feel himself
- without love, he isn’t himself
- personal pronons -> focus on himself
Scene 1: Theme- Friendship/Love
Benvolio: “Examine other ________”
“Examine other beauties”
Analysis:
- Foreshadowing Romeo and Juliet meeting <- advice to R for him to find another girl
- superficial view on women
Scene 2: Theme- Family
Lord Capulet: “My _____ is yet a ______ in the world”
“My child is yet a stranger in the world”
Anaylsis:
-Metaphor- naive + innocent
- Possessive Pronouns
-vulnerable amd too young
Scene 2: Theme- Marriage
Paris: “_______ than she a happy ______ made”
“Younger than she are happy
mothers made”
Anaylsis:
-insisting that she marries him
Scene 3: Theme- Family
Nurse: “______” “_________”
“lamb” “ladybird”
Anaylsis:
-vulnerable, fragile, innocent
- affectionate names
- lamb-> sacrifice, Foreshadowing she will be sacrifice to end the feud
Scene 3: Theme- Family
Nurse: “thou wast the _________ babe that e’er I _____‘d”
thou wast the prettiest babe
that e’er I nurs’d”
Analysis:
-Close relationship since birth
Scene 3: Theme- Family
Lady Capulet: “_______ than you, here in ______, ladies of _______ are
made already mothers”
“younger than you, here in
Verona, ladies of esteem are made already mothers”
Analysis:
-similar to Paris-> societies’ attitudes to young women-> patriarchal beliefs
Scene 3: Theme: Marriage
Lady Capulet: “____ o’er the ______ of young _____ face”
“Read o’er the volume of young Paris’ face”
Analysis:
-extended Metaphor-> comparing Paris to a book-> he is a fairy tale
Scene 3: Theme- Marriage/Love
Juliet: “I’ll ____ to like, if looking ______
move”
I’ll look to like, if looking liking move”
Anaylsis:
-alliteration-> obedient-> agrees to meet Paris
-submissive
Scene 3: Theme- Duty/ Family
Nurse: “Go, ____, seek ______ nights to happy ____”
“Go, girl, seek happy nights to happy days”
Analysis:
- Repetion-> wants the best for Juilet
-Nurse genuinely cares for her happiness unlike Lady C
Scene 4: Theme- Love
“Is love a _____ thing? It is too
_____ , ___ rude, too __________
and it pricks like ____”
“Is love a tender thing? It is too
rough, too rude, too boist’rous and it pricks like thorn”
Anaylsis:
Romeo has a negative idea of love
-smilie love is painful
-Repetion, overwhelmed by nature of love
