Romeo and Juliet - Act 1

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GCSE English Literature (Romeo and Juliet) Mind Map on Romeo and Juliet - Act 1, created by Aalia Rizvi on 05/03/2017.
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Mind Map by Aalia Rizvi, updated more than 1 year ago
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Romeo and Juliet - Act 1
  1. Prologue
    1. Sonnet - Iambic pentameter (often explores love and conflict
      1. Dramatic Irony
      2. Outlines main issues of love and feuding and how true love ultimately triumphs because the deaths of Romeo and Juliet end the feud between their families.
        1. Introduces exciting themes - Suicide/Sin (themes of a typical tragedy)
        2. A pair of star-cross'd lovers take their life
          1. Theme: Fate and Destiny/Death and Tragedy
            1. Means the couple are destined for death, literally against the stars
            2. The structure of the play itself is the fate from which Romeo and Juliet cannot escape.
            3. Scene 1
              1. Important theme of masculine honour - a man must defend his honour verbally or physically, exists in every layer of society in Verona, from the servants on up to the noblemen. It animates Samson and Gregory as much as it does Tybalt.
              2. Scene 2
                1. Scene 3
                  1. Scene 4
                    1. Scene 5
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