Romeo and Juliet Unit 10
About William Shakespeare Greatest - types, human nature + realistic - Universality, nature - Timelessness - Beauty - Adaptability Age, time
His Life Author Birthplace Education Hathaway Playwright 154 Plays King’s, Globe Money Christian
His Career + nationalism + love + threats + mature + complex + dialogue
His Philosophy + What, content + How, style + functional + explicit + moral tone - theme, purpose > Themes > Characterization
Random Facts Performed Longest all
Terms Drama, action, oldest Directions, time, exits Dialogue, speeches Alone, thoughts - “To Be or Not to Be” Comment Movement, probable Action, does, says - hero - villain Plot, five, introduction, climax
Freytag’s Pyramid
Terms Tragedy, comedy - serious, universal - happy, themes Truth Meanings Real dressing
General Information Italy Tragedy Protagonists Antagonists Point
Characters- The Montagues Rome’s Peace Comic, traditional Peacemaker, Chorus Friend, tease
Characters- the Capulets Juliet’s Cold 14, defy Messenger Violent Marry mute
Neutral Characters Narrator Symbol, restore Confessor, marry, fate never
About Act I, Scenes 1-3 Sonnet, foreshadowing Fate, free will Never Sunday, haste, Montague, Capulets, Juliet Punning Servant, hotheaded Foil, normative Dignity, rusty, end Comic, wife
About Act I, Scenes 1-3 Comic, seriously lovesick, never Never, courtly, misery Flowery, never Oxymorons Metaphor Slowly Sympathetic, ironically Coincidence Foils, love Parents, thirteen love
About Act I, Scenes 4-5 Immature, dreamer, fatal, comedy Punner, dreams, dreams, end Forty, himself, revenge first Hate Sonnet Ababcbcbdedeff Pilgrim, kiss Religion, purity Agressor, not, timid Identify, paradox, hate
Postcard Directions: You are Romeo or Juliet. Write a postcard to someone about a scene in Act 2. Example: Romeo was in my garden. I thought I was alone. I said I loved him aloud, and he appeared and spoke of love. Nurse almost caught us twice. He left at dawn to arrange a wedding.
About Act II Sonnet Center, not, rapport, good Foils, more Light, moon, chastity Metaphor Only, famous, value Name
About Act II Love Pun The more love one gives, the more one has. God, abuse, haste Human Famous, forty Foreshadowing, offstage Not, fourteen
About Act III, Scenes 1 July, hotheaded Peacemaker Matured, blocks, situational, death Own, avenge Not Pun Tybalt, killed Fortune, decisions Haste, impetuosity
About Act III, Scene 2 Mythology, Phaethon, love Internal, oxymorons Suicide, kill, dead, too, haste
About Act III, Scenes 3-5 Suicide, condemned, not Fate, blessings, good Four 1. secretly 2. Paris 3. potion 4. before
Act III, Scenes 3-5 Ironic, mother, father Night, day Irony Foreshadow Personification, apostrophe, alliteration Generation evil
About Act IV Rapid Scheming, fate, negative Nothing, love Suicide Haste Fears, mad Foreshadows First Dramatic Grief, twice, Nurse, synonymns Humor, clown
About Act V Dramatic Fate Poison Death Never, Wednesday Timing, ignorance, foils Mature No haste
Freytag’s Pyramid
Themes Love- Fate vs. Free Will- late, accurate Haste and immaturity- Friday Light/Dark- Suicide- Poison-