C/L Tuesday 15th May 2018 Revising Lady Capulet

Come up with your own word bank of words and phrases to describe her Elizabethan mother Distant Follows rules Needs the nurse Submissive Controlling Cruel Wants wealth and status

Eager to see Juliet marry Paris because Paris is related to Prince Escalus so it will raise their social standing. Protects family honour – wants Romeo killed when he kills Tybalt She married young and wants Juliet to conform to this expectation Goes against Juliet to avoid Lord Capulet’s rage

Lady Capulet = typical UPPER CLASS Elizabethan mother Lady Capulet symbolises the typical Elizabethan mother Controlled by the father Distant relationship SUPPORT AN ARRANGED MARRIAGE NOT LOVE Teach daughter to: marry and have children young

Key Quotes “enough Nurse I pray thee hold thy peace!” “read o’er the volume of Paris’ face” “I beg for justice which thou must give” “do as thou wilt for I have done with thee” Act 3 Scene 5 “O me, O me, my child, my life! Revive, look up or I will die with thee!” Act 4 Scene 5 “she’s dead, she’s dead, she’s dead!”

“enough Nurse I pray thee hold thy peace!” The Nurse is talking about a memory of Juliet when she fell forward onto her face when an earthquake happened. Lady Capulet silences her. It suggests she isn’t interested in hearing about Juliet as a child. Irritated tone – is she jealous of the nurse or just desperate to keep to the important topic of marrying Paris?

“read o’er the volume of Paris’ face” Using a metaphor: read Paris’ face like a book. Her concern is appearance not love. Imperative phrase “read over” Eager to marry Paris to raise their social standing/wealth

“I beg for justice which thou must give” Romeo slew Tybalt, Romeo must not live” She stands up for her family honour and reputation. Shocking she is giving commands to Prince Escalus. Repetition of imperative verb “must” highlights her rage and intense desire to get revenge for her family.

“do as thou wilt for I have done with thee”” I am done with you She supports her husband who called Juliet a “wretched baggage” She disowns Juliet. She is disgusted and ashamed with Juliet. As a wife, SHE CANNOT disagree with her husband. Perhaps she does want to support Juliet but Elizabethan society won’t let her!

How she reacts when Juliet dies You should JUXTAPOSE (CONTRAST) how she easily disowned Juliet with how she then reacts when she thinks that Juliet is dead in Act 4 Scene 5. On your own explode these quotes. THEY HAVE WONDERFUL LANGUAGE ANALYSIS OPPORTUNITIES (AO2) “she’s dead, she’s dead, she’s dead!” “O me, O me, my child, my life! Revive, look up or I will die with thee!”

TONIGHT… Revising Mercutio! Come at 3:45 after your exam Food will be supplied

Mercutio makes a lot of sexual references, can you figure out what this one means? Now will he sit under a medlar tree And wish his mistress were that kind of fruit O Romeo, that she were! Oh, that she were An open arse, and thou a poperin pear.

Key things about Mercutio Romeo’s best friend. Loyal. Mercutio suggested to go to the ball. Mercutio stood in for Romeo for HONOUR. Mercutio tries to joke all the time “a scratch” Mercutio is good to CONTRAST with Romeo because Romeo believes in Romantic love but Mercutio is focused on PHYSICAL LOVE (SEX)

Honour “dishonourable, vile submission” means Romeo is being weak not fighting back and Mercutio wants to DEFEND HIS HONOUR Act 3 Scene 1 He fights Tybalt because Tybalt tells Romeo to “turn and draw” but Romeo says “I love thee better than thou canst devise” Mercutio cannot let his friend TARNISH HIS HONOUR so he fights for Romeo! “dishonourable, vile submission!” [draws] “Tybalt- you rat-catcher will you walk?” He says he will take one of Tybalt’s nine lives

Aggression/conflict Act 3 Scene 1 He wants a fight because Benvolio tries to get him away from the public eye when he knows the “day is hot” and the “mad blood is stirring” Mercutio jokes that Benvolio pretends he doesn’t like fighting but he;s like any “Jack” of Verona and would soon be moved to fight. He wants to seem masculine when he says “by my heel I care not” when he sees the Capulets. He demands a fight “make it a word and a blow” when Tybalt asks for a word with one of them.

Mercutio’s attitude towards love is SEX! “I must conjure him” “quivering thighs” “prick love for pricking” “medlar tree”/ “O if she were an open arse and thou a poperin pear” “maids lie on their backs that presses them and learns to bear” “bawdy hand of the dial is now upon the prick of noon”

Contrast with Romantic Love Mercutio does at times get Romeo to copy his sexual behaviour like in Act 2 Scene 4 Act 2 Scene 4 LADS, LADS, LADS Contrast with Romantic Love M: “I am the very pink of courtesy” R: “pink for flower” M: “right.” R: “well then is my pump well flowered”

Attitudes towards LOVE Juxtapose Mercutio’s SEXUAL attitude with Romeo’s ROMANTIC attitude “quivering thigh” “prick love for pricking” “O if she were an open arse” “Juliet is the sun” “holy shrine” “O that I were a glove upon that hand”

Give any quotes you have FROM MEMORY C/L ACT 5 SCENE 3 Thursday 17th May 2018 Revising the death scene Sum up what happened + Give any quotes you have FROM MEMORY

The final scene The feud ends. Just like the prologue said it would “doth with their death bury their parents’ strife” Juliet challenges the weak Elizabethan woman by stabbing herself. Romeo kills Paris for getting in his way – POWER OF LOVE. Paris truly loves Juliet because he wants to put fresh flowers on her grave every night so he wasn’t in it for the arranged marriage. The Friar confesses everything and says he has judged himself for it. Lady Montague died!? Lord Capulet and Montague shake hands and say they will make gold statues of their children in their honour.

Key Quotes “I will tear thee joint by joint” [Paris strews the tomb with flowers] “nightly I will dew” “here lies Juliet…. Her beauty makes this tomb full of light” “O happy dagger” “my wife is dead tonight grief of her son” “O brother Montague give me thy hand”

Revision Tasks: Read the final scene ON YOUR OWN pages 109 onwards. Then pick up an exam question on relationships between Lady Capulet and Juliet.