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Romeo Characterisation (Key Quotes ("O brawling Love! O loving Hate!,…
Romeo Characterisation
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Key Characteristics
Beginning
Hopeless Lover
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Feels that the time goes past slowly- "Ay, sad hours seem long"
Lustful, unrealistic love- "Thy Love did read by rote"
Immature
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Childish, uses Sonnets-"pronounce but love and Dove"
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Fickle
Changes love easliy
"Holy Saint Francis,what a change is here!
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End
Unpredictable
Actively goes after a fight with Paris-"have at thee, boy!"
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Passionate
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Passionately loyal, and is consumed by anger-"Either thou or I, or both, must go with him"
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Throughout
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Witty
With his friends, he talks with dirty jokes-"my pump"
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Mercutio is brutally honest, and points out that the biggest flaw of Romeo is his obsession with Love
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Romeo's Development
Becomes more Mature
Gets over Rosaline and stops using Sonnets as a way of communication like the hopeless romantic at the start
Becomes more realistic, and practical, giving Juliet a "Faithful vow" that he will have the wedding arranged "by the hour of nine"
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Becomes more Dangerous
Prepared to fight to the death after the death of Mercutio, showing he is not only loyal but also violent
He becomes more passionate; not just in romance, but in the violent duels
Buys the poison and acts mercilessly towards Paris whom he refers to as "Boy", showing no respect
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