Romeo and Juliet - Act 3

Scene 1
1. Mercutio: A plague a'both your houses
  1. Theme: Fate and Destiny
  2. Repetition/Foreshadowing
  3. Love is a disease, causes harm
  4. Plague - almost like death/causes death
2. Romeo: Thy beauty hath made me effeminate/And in my temper softened valour's steel
  1. Love weakened Romeo, gender roles switched between R+J
  2. Theme: Patriarcal society
  3. Private vs. public world - publicly Romeo is is the pinnacle of masculinity, however privately he is emotional and therefore weak and infatuated
3. Romeo: I am fortune's fool
  1. Theme: Fate and Destiny
  2. Admitting being a fool, doesn't take responsibility for his own actions - highlights his immaturity, believes he is a victim/slave to fate/destiny
    1. Deflecting/adicating responsibilty
    2. This always leads him to disaster and chaos
  3. Ultimately it is their own actions which lead to their fate
    1. He shows self pity, and is still in the same immature mind set - he believes that he is still weak against fortune's power/influence over him
4. Romeo: Till thou shalt know the reason of my love, good Capulet which name I tender as dearly as my own
  1. Theme: Honour/Loyalty/Famalam
  2. Dramatic Irony
  3. Romeo, for once, is the most mature in this scene - he is naïve for believing that he can avoid the conflict of the families, so Tybalt believes that Romeo is mocking him
  4. Romeo speaks in truth, 'half truths' and full out lies (progressively gets further from morality) as he understands/wants to hide
Scene 2
1. Juliet: Beautiful tyrant, fiend angelical, Dove-feathered raven
  1. Oxymorons
  2. Dove: seen to be stupid and silly + present peace
    1. Juxtaposition
    2. The love was like a dove (stupid, but peaceful in some way to Juliet)
  3. Juliet has not had to choose between family and Romeo before and therefore, is very confused now
  4. Raven: clever, loyal, BUT not pretty
  5. Juliet is frustrated because Romeo has a hold over her. He is deciding the course of her future with his actions.
  6. Love
2. Juliet: Shall I speak ill of him that is my husband? … villain, didst thou kill my cousin? That villain cousin would have killed my husband
  1. Juliet displays progress from simple, plain, obedient girl to a more “mature” women who’s loyalty is to her husband: CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT
  2. Links to Act 3, Scene 5
  3. Patriarchy
  4. Juliet’s self determination: she has the duty to romeo since he is her family now. However, she is not free from her famility since she is trapped in patriarchy. This freedom is allusive
  5. Loyalty/Family
Scene 3
1. Romeo: they may seize On the white wonder of dear Juliet’s hand
  1. Romeo is unwilling to realise that the law is the law. Isn’t admitting that he got banished cuz he killed someone.
  2. He is focising on the physical side of his relationship: not thinking about the relationship, rather thinking about touch + obsessed with physical consummation + no mention of their relationship as such
    1. He has not stopped to consider whether Juliet wants him anymore
  3. Romeo shows continuity: thread of melodrama throughout the play throughout the play
    1. Juliet can be seen as fickle as she complies with Romeo. Character development cannot happen in just two days FICKLE
  4. Love
  5. Patriarchy
2. Nurse: Stand up, stand, and you be a man, For Juliet's sake... why should you fall so deep an O
  1. The nurse is acting as an authouritive figure. Her and Friar Lawrence, to some extent have a higher sense of morality as they were not brought up with the same ideas. They were responsible for marrying Romeo and Juliet + they did not do it for economic purposes, rather for love and pure intensions
  2. This is the first time someone told Romeo what to do. This is shocking because the nurse is of lower class
  3. Patriarchy
    1. Gender Presentation
  4. Repetion "Stand"
    1. compounding and demanding him to suck it up
  5. Friar Lawrence: Thy tears are womanish... unseemly woman in a seeming man
    1. Iambic Pentametor
    2. Juxtaposition
3. Romeo: In what vile part of this anatomy, doth my name lodge?...sack the hateful mansion
  1. ROMEO IS HOLDING A DAGGER WHEN HE SAYS THIS. He wants to know in what part of his body his name is located, so he can cut it out. He's threatening to kill himself here
  2. "sack the hateful mansion" being a metaphor for destroying the body in which he lives)
    1. METAPHOR
  3. Conflict
Scene 4
1. Lord Capulet: I think she will be ruled in all respects by me
  1. Patriarchy
  2. Possession
  3. Lord C. knows Juliet WILL obey him because she has to
  4. Lord C acts less with his heart and more with his will and cultural role
  5. Tybalt's untimely and the resurgence of animosity between his and the Montague family, Lord Capulet seems much less concerned with the feelings of his daughter than he has previously
    1. Lord Capulet's drastic change in character his capricious personality
      1. Instead of respecting Juliet's choice and trusting her decision, Lord Capulet becomes forceful and insensitive.
        Links and contrasts with Act 1
Scene 5
1. Juliet: Yond light is not daylight; I know it, I. It is some meteor that the sun exhales To be to thee this night a torchbearer
  1. Light is not being seen as a positive thing. Even though light has always been positively seen describes, REAL light is negative because it does not work to their favour.
  2. This romantism related idea of how their love is not for this world
  3. they are denying that it is the next day b/c they know that they have to separate and do not want to
  4. Light and Darkness
  5. Love
  6. Individual vs Society
2. Juliet: Art thou gone so, love, lord, ay husband, friend?
  1. Lord: Juliet is saying that Romeo is superior
  2. Blasphemous
  3. Order of nouns
    1. lord is before husband and friend but after love
      1. shows that their love is over the lord = it is against God
        Double-meaning: Lord could mean father--> her love for her father is after love
      2. significant because it shows the patriarchy he bestows on her + he controls her
  4. Patriarchy
3. Lord Capulet: disobedient wretch
4. Lord C: you be mine, I'll give you to my friend. An you be not, hang, beg, starve, die in the streets,
  1. Conveys the sense of patriarchy, presents women as inferior and under men’s control
  2. Capulet threatens Juliet with their very relationship as father and daughter. If she does not marry Paris, he will never look at her again. He is forcing her to choose between his will and love and her own.
  3. Lord Capulet refers to Juliet as a burden due to her rejection of the proposal. He also implies that she’s disposable property as she’s refusing to follow his decree.
  4. Patriarchy
  5. Rebellion
5. Juliet: Methinks I see thee... as one dead in the bottom of a tomb
  1. lovers experience visions that blatantly foreshadow the end of the play
  2. Foreshadow
  3. This is to be the last moment they spend alive in each other’s company. When Juliet next sees Romeo he will be dead, and as she looks out of her window she seems to see him dead already
  4. Death

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