Juliet – naïve girl to prospective wife Remember! A soliloquy is a character speaking aloud their innermost thoughts to themselves Write a short soliloquy exploring your feelings at the end of Act 2, Scene 2. Place yourself in the shoes of Juliet at this stage. Focus on how you think Juliet would be feeling; write her thoughts, hopes, fears. Discuss how you feel about Romeo, your whirlwind romance, and what you think about the feud between you. Juliet is perhaps the more ‘logical thinking’ in the romantic duo – what do you think she would be thinking at this stage? Would she be considering her parents in this? Would she be excited about fulfilling her role as a wife? Would she be considering running away at this stage? It must be in first person (you are writing as if you are Juliet) and present tense Write 8 – 10 lines Extension – incorporate language techniques like rhetorical questions, imagery (celestial, dark/light, religious), personification and metaphors. This is practice for your step out/soliloquy task given out next week – try to empathise with Juliet in this task to prepare you for your assessment.

Sample – A grade step out/soliloquy for Romeo in Act 2, Scene 2 … after Juliet says “It is too rash, too unadvised, too sudden” (line 118) Too sudden? Sudden is the only way I want it to be with her! Oh, she is so impossibly perfect! Why must we wait, if I had it my way we’d already be wed! An arrow shot from cupid strikes me through the heart each time my eyes fall upon her soft, supple flesh. Of all the fair maidens who have graced my eyes, she is the fairest, the most intriguing compared to that wrench Rosaline who will remain sick and green with envy of her. My life will not be complete unless its entirety is spent with her. My life’s greatest endeavour shall be Juliet and her happiness. There's nothing I’ve yearned for more, she is the grandest prize. How I hope I can fulfil her, but how could I ever be enough for such an angel? But then there is the issue of our families and their eternal feud. How can a Montagues blood be fused with a Capulets? Would our blessed vows be enough to join our two families in unison? Our families stand as strong as two old oak trees, though what would happen if two branches from either tree reached out for each other? But then she says our love is too rash, too unadvised, too sudden? Yet how can this be when we’ve just expressed our deep devotion for one another? The only way I can test her loyalty for me is if she vows her virtue onto me tonight and willingly surrenders her love. Her lips, soft flower petals that adorn her beautiful face is like a sweet nectar that bees cannot resist. Her smile illuminates the sky the way stars shine at night; they envy her mystique. But what promise will she swear by tonight? Oh how she is my treasure, my rarest gem. Oh she is my life’s muse! I swear by thy precious self that each moment without her is dedicated to winning her.