friar lawrence Flashcards

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To turn your households’ rancor to pure love

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He agrees to marry Juliet in secret in hope that it will join the two families together and put an end to the feud. However this line also reminds the audience that it isn’t their alliance that brings the families together, but their children’s deaths.

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These violent delights have violent ends

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Repetition, foreshadowing. He sees that their passionate love could have terrible consequences. Juxtaposition.

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O deadly sin! O rude unthankfulness!

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Repetition - ‘O’ combined with exclamation marks create ecphonesis to show that the Friar believes Romeo is ungrateful for only being exiled and not executed.

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Come, go, good Juliet.

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Gentle imperatives. flattery, but ultimately weak. He won’t persuade her to leave and will selfishly escape alone.

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