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Romeo and Juliet Key Themes (Love (Paris (He approaches Juliet father…
Romeo and Juliet Key Themes
Love
Romeo
Romeo thought he was in love with Rosaline(puppy love)
Romeo is extreme about love, switches to Juliet from to loving Rosaline in 1 night and wants to kill himself when he can't be with her
Paris
He approaches Juliet father instead of Juliet(what they did at the time)
Shows he is more in-tune and like the Shakespearean society
Not using deep language which suggested he wants to be with Juliet for a good marriage (not them falling in love)
Between Friends
Shown by joint iambic pentameter
Romeo + Friar, Juliet + Nurse, Romeo + Mercutio + Benvolio
Care and protect each other(Mercutio fights for Romeo)
Romeo + Juliet
Classic idea of love
Will do anything for each other and their language and behaviour reflect this
Use religious ideas to describe each other(sin)
Sexual
References made by specially Nurse and Merctuio
Very different compared to Romeo + Juliet's idealistic love
Fate
Main Idea
The idea that everyone's life is decided and set for them
Romeo and Juliet's ill-fated lives are described as
'death-marked'
, and they are a
'pair of star-crossed lovers'
Shakespeare sets the two families against each other, and there is nothing Romeo and Juliet can do about this
Romeo + Juliet
Romeo thinks something is
'hanging in the stars'
, while Juliet says a
'faint cold fear thrills through my veins'
which shows the couple think something is going go bad
This is mysterious for a modern audience but for a Shakespearean it would have been taken seriously as fate was serious
Death
Quotes
'cold death'
'death-darting eye'
'we were born to die'
Who dies?
Mercutio, Tybalt, Paris, Romeo and Juliet
Romeo + Juliet
Opposite to Shakespearean society
Romeo sips on poison (feminine) and Juliet stabs herself (masculine)
Death
Becomes a person, one who has married Juliet (with
'Death is my son-in-law'
)
Shakespearean time, death was often as people died much younger so it was less shocking than now
Time
Prolouge
It shows it's only a matter of time before Romeo + Juliet die
'A pair of star-cross'd lovers take their life'
Refrences
Many references to time running out
In Act 3, Scene 2 with Juliet is waiting for the night and the arrival of Romeo
The whole play covers just a few days, and the pace changes frequently
Crucial to the Plot
The plans for Juliet's marriage are brought foward
The sleeping potion only lasts a certain time
Romeo kills himself before Juliet wakes up
Juliet's death related to time(
'be brief'
)