Romeo → Family & Violence Flashcards
(2 cards)
“Thus with a kiss I die”
1 → syntactically simplistic - Romeo’s inner peace, perhaps due to being freed of the familial feud that set him and juliet apart
2 → Romeo chooses love over family duty - love affirmations of kiss before he dies - places his love for Juliet above the love of his family - due to the corrupting nature of the feud?
3 → surrendering to the cosmos of fate - no ammount of love can escape the familial feud they are laced into
LINK → “to smooth than with a tender kiss” - meeting of juliet starts and end with a kiss, cyclical structure to their relationship, end of their relationship marks an end to the familial feud.
“There lies more peril in her eyes, than 20 of their swords”
1 → hyperbole, demonstrates the confliction between love and violence present in their relationship - eyes connote to beauty, he SEES juliet as beautiful
2 → Romeo is aware of this violent nature of their love - romanticises and represents his callow nature
3 → twenty swords - war imagery - perhaps swords are a result of love, seen with the common motif of swords - their love causes bloodshed
LINK → “O, happy dagger”
Killing of Mercutio by the sword
Killing of Tybalt by the sword
