Compare and contrast the characters of Romeo and Juliet. How do they develop throughout the play? What makes them fall in love with one another?
Romeo: 1.) Begging of the story romeo was impulsive and indecisive about love 2.) Towards the middle of the play he overreacted a lot and was very in "love" with Juliet 3.) At the end of the play Romeo's true love for Juliet shows when he kills himself because he couldn't live without her.
Juliet: 1.) At the beginning of the play Juliet had never thought about marriage or love and had no intentions of getting married. 2.) In the middle of the play Juliet over reacted as well as Romeo. She was upset about her parents forcing her to marry Paris. So she went to Friar Lawrence and threatened to kill herself because she loved only romeo. 3.) At the end of the play she wakes up from the potion to find Romeo dead instead of in her arms, she kills herself because she cant live with out him.
What makes them fall in love: Romeo thinks juliet is the most beautiful girl in the whole world it was love at first sight.Juliet falls in love with romeo because he so romantic and handsome.
2. Compare and contrast the characters of Tybalt and Mercutio. Why does Mercutio hate Tybalt?
Tybalt: 1: Bold / aggressive 2: Violent 3: Capulet
Mercutio: 1: Mixed Emotions 2: Kinsman of the Prince 3: Montague
3. A tragedy tells of the defeat of a tragic hero. His or her downfall is a result of a tragic flaw or fatal character weakness. Decide who is the tragic hero of Romeo and Juliet. What is that person's tragic flaw? I would say that Romeo was a tragic because his tragic flaw was his impulsiveness.
4. Discuss the relationships between parents and children in Romeo and Juliet. How do Romeo and Juliet interact with their parents? Are they rebellious, in the modern sense? How do their parents feel about them? When Juliet drinks the potion and fakes her death to get out of marrying Paris, so I would say that Juliet is fairly rebelious.
5. Apart from clashing with Tybalt, what role does Mercutio play in the story? Is he merely a colorful supporting character and brilliant source of comic relief, or does he serve a more serious purpose? Mercutio has a role showing the downfall to the family feud because since both families are fighting a family memeber to the Prince died.
6. Identify some situations in today's world where two lovers might find obstacles because of their membership in feuding groups. two lovers can face debt because of the terrible ecnomy and many americans loosing theit jobs. not only just debt they can face other money promblems. relgion is another thing that can go wrong in a marrige, if one family has a certin view about anothers relgion,
7. Cite some of the ways poular stories of romantic love have remained unchanged since Romeo and Juliet was written. In what ways have they changed? Discuss some example.
8. Love and hate exist side by side in the play. Talk about the many ways in which one affects the other. 1.) Romeo and juliet love each other and no one knows about it except the friar and the nurse, the two families hate each other so their love is complicated.
2.) Tybalt hates romeo more then any character in the play he wants to fight him but ends up fighting Mercutio instead and he dies. Romeo is so mad that he goes after Tybalt and kills him. He had a lot of hate for him because he killed his best friend, if he hadn't of done that they wouldn't of fought and no one would have died.
9. Discuss one motif, or reocurring image in the play. bad luck/ fate hate
Literary Elements:
10.
. Discuss all of the themes in Romeo and Juliet.
12. What line/lines do you find the most lyrical or beautiful and why? WHich lines sound the most familiar to you and why?
12. With personification, human characteristics are given to nonhuman things, for example, in the Prologue in Act II, the lines, "Now old Desire doh in his death-bed lie/ and young Affection gapes to be his heir." WHy do you think Shakespeare personifies Desire and Affection---or Death (Act IV)?
13. Dramatic irony occurs when the audience knows more about what is happening on stage than at least one of the characters or when what is said contrasts with what has happened in the play already. Go through the play and find examples of dramatic irony. What do you think a playwright gains by using this technique?
Romeo:
1.) Begging of the story romeo was impulsive and indecisive about love
2.) Towards the middle of the play he overreacted a lot and was very in "love" with Juliet
3.) At the end of the play Romeo's true love for Juliet shows when he kills himself because he couldn't live without her.
Juliet:
1.) At the beginning of the play Juliet had never thought about marriage or love and had no intentions of getting married.
2.) In the middle of the play Juliet over reacted as well as Romeo. She was upset about her parents forcing her to marry Paris. So she went to Friar Lawrence and threatened to kill herself because she loved only romeo.
3.) At the end of the play she wakes up from the potion to find Romeo dead instead of in her arms, she kills herself because she cant live with out him.
What makes them fall in love:
Romeo thinks juliet is the most beautiful girl in the whole world it was love at first sight. Juliet falls in love with romeo because he so romantic and handsome.
2. Compare and contrast the characters of Tybalt and Mercutio. Why does Mercutio hate Tybalt?
Tybalt:
1: Bold / aggressive
2: Violent
3: Capulet
Mercutio:
1: Mixed Emotions
2: Kinsman of the Prince
3: Montague
3. A tragedy tells of the defeat of a tragic hero. His or her downfall is a result of a tragic flaw or fatal character weakness. Decide who is the tragic hero of Romeo and Juliet. What is that person's tragic flaw?
I would say that Romeo was a tragic because his tragic flaw was his impulsiveness.
4. Discuss the relationships between parents and children in Romeo and Juliet. How do Romeo and Juliet interact with their parents? Are they rebellious, in the modern sense? How do their parents feel about them?
When Juliet drinks the potion and fakes her death to get out of marrying Paris, so I would say that Juliet is fairly rebelious.
5. Apart from clashing with Tybalt, what role does Mercutio play in the story? Is he merely a colorful supporting character and brilliant source of comic relief, or does he serve a more serious purpose?
Mercutio has a role showing the downfall to the family feud because since both families are fighting a family memeber to the Prince died.
6. Identify some situations in today's world where two lovers might find obstacles because of their membership in feuding groups.
two lovers can face debt because of the terrible ecnomy and many americans loosing theit jobs. not only just debt they can face other money promblems. relgion is another thing that can go wrong in a marrige, if one family has a certin view about anothers relgion,
7. Cite some of the ways poular stories of romantic love have remained unchanged since Romeo and Juliet was written. In what ways have they changed? Discuss some example.
8. Love and hate exist side by side in the play. Talk about the many ways in which one affects the other.
1.) Romeo and juliet love each other and no one knows about it except the friar and the nurse, the two families hate each other so their love is complicated.
2.) Tybalt hates romeo more then any character in the play he wants to fight him but ends up fighting Mercutio instead and he dies. Romeo is so mad that he goes after Tybalt and kills him. He had a lot of hate for him
because he killed his best friend, if he hadn't of done that they wouldn't of fought and no one would have died.
9. Discuss one motif, or reocurring image in the play.
bad luck/ fate
hate
Literary Elements:
10.
. Discuss all of the themes in Romeo and Juliet.
12. What line/lines do you find the most lyrical or beautiful and why? WHich lines sound the most familiar to you and why?
12. With personification, human characteristics are given to nonhuman things, for example, in the Prologue in Act II, the lines, "Now old Desire doh in his death-bed lie/ and young Affection gapes to be his heir." WHy do you think Shakespeare personifies Desire and Affection---or Death (Act IV)?
13. Dramatic irony occurs when the audience knows more about what is happening on stage than at least one of the characters or when what is said contrasts with what has happened in the play already. Go through the play and find examples of dramatic irony. What do you think a playwright gains by using this technique?