English: Romeo and Juliet Act 1 review

situational irony

something happens that is very different from expected

what word/s does Shakespeare play with the meaning of

“coals”, ”colliers”, ”choler”, ”collar”

meaning of the word draw

who is quarrel between in act 1

Capulet’s servingmen (Sampson + Gregory ) + Monatues’ servingmen (Abram !! + other servingman that literally does not matter as much as Abram)

How do capulet’s serving men insult the montagues (approaching servingmen)

insult = biting thumb = the big one !!

Benvolio vs. Tybalt

Benvolio = Montague, wants to keep the peace

Tybalt = Capulet, pugnacious →wants to start a fight

what does the prince do to break up the fight

threatens to kill to create peace

How is Romeo behaving in Act 1 according to Lord Montague

glum/sad/depressed

how does Montague feel about his son’s sadness

* bad since he doesn’t know
* willing to help him in any way he can bc he loves him

1. How does Romeo describe the girl he can’t have
2. why can’t he have her

1. very pretty
2. she won’t date because she wants to stay chaste to become a nun

Lord Capulet ?

* juliet’s father
* unaware of her feelings

Paris

* cousin of prince
* wants to marry juliet
* friends with nurse + tybalt

What do lord Capulet talk about regarding Juliet’s marriage

* Capulet wants him to wait two years until she is abt 16
* wants Paris and her to fall in love so she’s not miserable in marriage

significance of Romeo and Benvolio meeting the servingman who can’t read in sc 2

* romeo reads guest list of capulet party to the serving man
* as a thank you the servingman invites him to the party
* benvolio wants romeo to go to get over Rosaline
* Romeo wants to go to see her

nurse ?

* crude
* worker for capulets
* nursed juliet

Lady Capulet ?

* juliet’s mother
* relies on nurse
* wants juliet to marry paris

What does Lady Capulet struggle with in sc 2

* whether to talk to juliet with the nurse there or not bc her and juliet aren’t close since the mother didn’t take care of juliet

what does juliet think abt marriage

* she’s very vague
* says she’ll “look to like”

significance of queen mab speech

* sets a theme of god turning to violence
* shows Mercutio (not believing in dreams coming true and saying they’re dumb) and Romeo (believing in dreams and thinking they’re good)

Shakespeare light and dark symbolism in sc 5

Juliet is Romeos light bc of how beautiful she is

how does tybalt feel abt Romeo being at the party

* doesn’t like Romeo being there
* saucy boy → wants to start a fight at the party
* really holds grudge against the Montagues

what is something terrible … but also cool that happens between Romeo and Juliet

cool bc:

* they kiss
* fall in love

bad because:

* they are the children of rival families
* she can’t be in love with him since the only thing she loves came from the family she hates

prologue

a separate intro section of literacy or musical work

monologue

long speech from one character

chorus

single character saying something to provide context

ex. the prologue of the book is said by the chorus

tone

general attitude of a character, place, piece of writing, etc.

foil

character who is introduced as a contrast

dramatic irony

reader has better understanding of situation than character does

characterization

construction of a fictional character

* (STEAL)

inference

an educated guess

connotation

an idea or feeling a word invokes along with it’s literal meaning

denotation

the literal/primary meaning of a word in contrast to the feelings/ideas the word suggests

sacreligious

something that is in violation/misuse of something sacred

tragedy

an event causing great suffering/destruction/distress

sonnet

poem of 14 lines using any number of formal rhyme scheme

iambic pentameter

rhyme established by the words in that line

“I hate the word, as I hate hell,

all Montegues, and thee” (1.1).

Tybalt- reveals his pugnacious and fighting attitude -wanted to start a fight

“do you bite your thumb at us, sir”(1.1).

Abram- saying this to Sampson and Gregory since they were insulting the Montegues as Capulet serving men

 “Part fools!  Put up your swords! You know not what you do… I do but keep the peace!”

Benvolio- unlike tybalt, he tries to keep peace in the fight

“O brawling love, O loving hate”(1.1).

**romeo- Benvolio asks Romeo why he is upset. Romeo responds saying that he is in love, but she is not. This quote shows how Romeo is upset about the fight that happened between Capulets and Montagues because he doesn’t like or want to fight. Act 1, Scene 1 have the themes of both violence AND love.** 

“This love feel I, that feel no love in this”(1.1).

**Romeo says that he feels love, but no one loves him back.**

 “Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs” (1.1).

romeo - **He’s saying that love is made from disappointment talking to Mercutio about his forbidden love with Rosaline.** 

 “O me, what fray was here?  Yet tell me not, for I have heard It all. Here’s much to do with hate, but more with love”(1.1).

**Romeo asks what fight was happening and he says that it had to do with hate, but it had more to do with the love people had for their families.**

 “My child is yet a stranger in the world”(1.2).

**capulet- He says this about his daughter Juilet and expresses that she is too young to get married. He’s talking to Paris about his and Juliet’s marriage.**

“But woo her, gentle Paris, get her heart. My will to her consent is but a part” (1.2).

**Capulet wants his daughter to actually fall in love and not just forced into marriage like most people do. He’s talking to Paris about his and Juliet’s marriage.** 

“Nurse, come back again./I have remembered me, thou’s hear our counsel”(1.3).

**Lady Capulet goes do dismiss Nurse when talking to Juliet about marriage but then remembers how close Juliet and Nurse are, inviting her back to be apart of the discussion**

 “I’ll look to like is looking likeing move/ But no more deep will I endart mine eye/Than your consent gives strenght to make it fly”(1.3).

**Juliet is being vague when he mother asks if she could marry, and eventually love, Paris**

“Why, he’s a man of wax!”(1.3).

**The Nurse uses this metaphor to describe Paris’s good looks when talking to Juliet and Lady Capulet by comparing him to a statue.**

  “Is love a tend thing? It is too rough,/ Too rude, too boist’rous, and  it pricks like a thorn” (1.4)

**Romeo is talking about how he can’t have the woman of his dreams and that it feels so nice to be in love but it hurts so much to be out of it since he is unable to be with this woman.** 

“True, I talk of dreams,/Which are the children of an idle brain…”(1.4)

**Mercutio thinks that dreams are foolish and for the brains of children only. Romeo is talking to Mercutio about dreams because Romeo thinks that they can be true and Mercutio thinks the opposite.** 

 “For I ne’er saw true beauty till this night”(1.5)

**Romeo is ranting about Juliet’s beauty**.

 “Did my heart love till now?  Forswear it sight/ For I ne’er saw true beauty till this night”(1.5).

**Romeo is ranting about Juliet’s beauty.**

 “You kiss by the book”(1.5)

**Juliet and Romeo meet at the party, then they talk, then they kiss. Juliet is saying Romeo is experienced in kissing.**

 “If ever you disturb our streets again/Your lives sall pay the forfeit of the peace”(1.1).

Prince

 “From forth these fatal loins of these two foes / A pair of star-crossed lovers take their lives” 

chorus in prolouge