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Romeo and Juliet Acts 1-3 - Coggle Diagram
Romeo and Juliet Acts 1-3
Masculinity
"I will push Montague's men from the wall and thrust his maids to the wall...the heads of the maids, or their maiden-heads."
Masculinity= sex and violence
Serves to show how much they hate each other, but this is a little much
"Nay gentle Romeo, we must have you dance."
How much of a "man" is Romeo in this context?
"I am too enpierced with his shaft to soar with them above a common bound"
"I do protest I never injured thee, But love thee better than thou cans't devise Till though shallt know the reason of my love"
"Thy beauty hath made me effeminate, And in my temper softened valor's steel!"
Prince: "Quench the fire of your pernicious rage With purple fountains issuing from your veins." The Prince seems to be the voice of reason; he is not here for the normalization of this kind of violence.
Femininity
"What, lamb! What, ladybird! God forbid." (1.3)
Getting married at 14 is super fem apparently.
"Women grow by men"(1.4)
Women need men to fulfill their potential?
Heat/Humours/Medicine
"The brightness of her cheek would shame those stars" (Act 2.2)
"dedicate his beauty to the sun"
"Juliet is the sun" (Scene 2
"O God's lady dear! Are you so hot? marry, come up, I trow" (2.5)
Choler: anger due to blood. This is normal thing in this time period and is super real.
Love and Dick Jokes
Give me my Romeo, and when I shall die Take him and cut him out in little stars, And he will make the face of heaven so fine That all the world will be in love with night And pay no worship to the garish sun."
"This bud of love, by summer's ripening breath, May prove a beauteous flower when next we meet."
"Draw thy tool!"
"I am too enpierced with his shaft to soar with them above a common bound"
"Brawling love...Heavy lightness...Feather of lead": contradictory illustartions of love
"Montague is bound as well as I, In penalty alike; and 'tis not hard, I think, For men so old as we to keep the peace." Old men trafficking young girls to "keep the peace."