Honour

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Honour Overview

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Shakespeare uses the play as a vehicle to condemn the senselessness of blind honour, highlighting its destructive consequences.

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‘What drawn and talk of peace, I hate the word As i hate hell and Montagues’ - repetition of ‘hate’, honour is irrational and tribal, honour has caused Tybalt to be blinded by hatred and conflates honour with violence and aggression

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‘Draw if you be men’ - Conflates masculinity with honour, conditional questions the men’s honour and masculinity if they do not, violence is tied to honour.

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‘it is an honour i dream not of’ - juliet’s rejection of patriarchal value, rejects this honour

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‘O calm dishonourable, vile, submission’ - mocks those who do not conform to expectations of honour, being calm is supposedly dishonourable,

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‘O i am fortune’s fool’ - victim of fate, driven himself to do these things due to conflict between personal desire and honour and fate, alliteration emphasises this

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‘thus with a kiss i die’

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‘a greater power hath thwarted our intents’