JULIET
PERSONALITY:
Passionate Decisive
Idealistic Defiant
Ingenuous(naïve) Rational
Stubborn Sensible
Cunning Reticent (quiet)
Cautious
CONTEXT:
Arranged marriage- young girls of Juliet’s age would be considered for
marriage in the Elizabethan era.
Patriarchy- it was up to men to choose who their daughters would marry
as they had all dominance and authority.
Nurses- they were employed by wealthy, upper-class families to care of
the children.
CHARACTERISTICS:
Juliet is against the impulsive nature of love- Romeo was rash with his
feelings in act 1 scene 5 but Juliet remained mature and responded with
religious references.
Exposition of the play, J is represented as an obedient, ingenuous and
sheltered child.
Arising climax, J gives glimpses of her determination and strength
through how she cleverly makes her mother believe shell consider
marrying Paris.
When meeting Romeo, Juliet criticises his rash feelings and actions
towards her. (Act 1)
Logical and heartfelt- decided that her love for Romeo is her priority
(when she finds out about Tybalt’s death in Act 3)
Headstrong- refuses to marry Paris and disobeys her Father’s wishes.
(3.5)
QUOTES:
ACT 1
“Madam, I am here.”
Respectful to her mother.
“I’ll look to like, if looking liking move...”
Considers marrying Paris, re-iterating her sensibility.
“You kiss by the book”
“If he be married, my grave is like to be my wedding bed.”
, “My only love sprung by my only hate”
Realises Romeo is a Montague.
“For saints have hands that pilgrims' hands do touch”
ACT 2:
“Sweet, sweet, sweet nurse”
Juliet adores the Nurse- motherly figure.
“My bounty is as boundless as the sea, my love as deep.”
“Romeo, Romeo, where art thou Romeo?”
“It is too rash, too unadvised, too sudden, too like… lightning”
When R vows to marry J- J thinks rationally.
“Tis by thy name that is my enemy”
ACT 3:
“I have bought the mansion of love but not possessed it.”
“O serpent heart, hid with a flowering face!”
“Damned saint, honourable villain!”
OXYMORONS- J is infuriated at R for killing Tybalt.
“He shall not make me there a joyful bride!”
“Proud can I never be of what I hate!”
J fights with her father. She is defiant as she doesn’t want to marry Paris.
ACT 4:
“Bid me leap, rather than marry Paris, from the battlements of any
tower”
“I long to die if what thou speak, speak not of remedy.”
J begs Friar to help her. She doesn’t want to marry Paris as shes already married
to R. J is religious- does not want to sin.
“I am ever ruled by you” (J apologises to Lord C)
ACT 5:
“Go get thee hence, for I will not away”
“O happy dagger.”
Juliet kills herself out of an intensity of love.
SHAKESPEARES INTENTIONS:
PERSONALITY:
Passionate Decisive
Idealistic Defiant
Ingenuous(naïve) Rational
Stubborn Sensible
Cunning Reticent (quiet)
Cautious
CONTEXT:
Arranged marriage- young girls of Juliet’s age would be considered for
marriage in the Elizabethan era.
Patriarchy- it was up to men to choose who their daughters would marry
as they had all dominance and authority.
Nurses- they were employed by wealthy, upper-class families to care of
the children.
CHARACTERISTICS:
Juliet is against the impulsive nature of love- Romeo was rash with his
feelings in act 1 scene 5 but Juliet remained mature and responded with
religious references.
Exposition of the play, J is represented as an obedient, ingenuous and
sheltered child.
Arising climax, J gives glimpses of her determination and strength
through how she cleverly makes her mother believe shell consider
marrying Paris.
When meeting Romeo, Juliet criticises his rash feelings and actions
towards her. (Act 1)
Logical and heartfelt- decided that her love for Romeo is her priority
(when she finds out about Tybalt’s death in Act 3)
Headstrong- refuses to marry Paris and disobeys her Father’s wishes.
(3.5)
QUOTES:
ACT 1
“Madam, I am here.”
Respectful to her mother.
“I’ll look to like, if looking liking move...”
Considers marrying Paris, re-iterating her sensibility.
“You kiss by the book”
“If he be married, my grave is like to be my wedding bed.”
, “My only love sprung by my only hate”
Realises Romeo is a Montague.
“For saints have hands that pilgrims' hands do touch”
ACT 2:
“Sweet, sweet, sweet nurse”
Juliet adores the Nurse- motherly figure.
“My bounty is as boundless as the sea, my love as deep.”
“Romeo, Romeo, where art thou Romeo?”
“It is too rash, too unadvised, too sudden, too like… lightning”
When R vows to marry J- J thinks rationally.
“Tis by thy name that is my enemy”
ACT 3:
“I have bought the mansion of love but not possessed it.”
“O serpent heart, hid with a flowering face!”
“Damned saint, honourable villain!”
OXYMORONS- J is infuriated at R for killing Tybalt.
“He shall not make me there a joyful bride!”
“Proud can I never be of what I hate!”
J fights with her father. She is defiant as she doesn’t want to marry Paris.
ACT 4:
“Bid me leap, rather than marry Paris, from the battlements of any
tower”
“I long to die if what thou speak, speak not of remedy.”
J begs Friar to help her. She doesn’t want to marry Paris as shes already married
to R. J is religious- does not want to sin.
“I am ever ruled by you” (J apologises to Lord C)
ACT 5:
“Go get thee hence, for I will not away”
“O happy dagger.”
Juliet kills herself out of an intensity of love.
SHAKESPEARES INTENTIONS:
