Example PowerPoint
Ms. Chapman
Coronado High School
Claim
This is your thesis statement.
Evidence
At least three direct quotations needed.
Interpretation
Your group explains why this topic is important.
 Shakespeare uses the
theme of “Love verses
Lust” in Romeo and
Juliet to teach his
audience about how
young lovers often fall
in love too quickly.
Although Romeo is first
infatuated with Rosaline,
he soon is smitten by
Juliet.

Passage #1:
 Shakespeare explains
how Rosaline refuses to
sleep with Romeo. He
writes, “Well, in that hit
you miss: [Rosaline will]
not be hit/
With Cupid's arrow; she
hath Dian's wit;
And, in strong proof of
chastity well arm'd,
From love's weak
childish bow she lives
unharm'd” (I.i.199-202)

Here are some modern representations
of Cupid. Note that Shakespeare seems
to suggest that being hit by Cupid’s arrow
was like receiving a wound.
 Romeo says that
Rosaline will not be hit
by Cupid’s arrow.
 Her “chastity” is well
guarded. (In Greek
mythology, Diana was
the goddess of the
hearth and known for
her chastity.)
 Passage #2:
 When Romeo tells him
that he has fallen in love
with Juliet, Friar
Lawrence says: “… love
moderately; long love
doth so; too swift arrives
as tardy as too slow
(II.6.14-16)
What does the expression on Friar
Lawrence’s face suggest? If you
were the artist, how would you
depict the lovers and their
“accomplice”?
 Passage #3
 Romeo quickly says that
 Shakespeare writes that
none were better looking
than Rosaline.
 How is the audience
supposed to react when
he says almost the same
thing about Juliet.
Romeo felt there was no
comparison to his love:
“One fairer than my love!
the all-seeing sun
Ne'er saw her match
since first the world
begun” (I.ii.93-94).
 Shakespeare uses the characterization of Romeo
to show that Romeo really thinks with his “eyes”
rather than his head and heart.
 What others say of him…
 What he says…
 His actions…
 The quickly-won love may be a lesson for his
readers about lust.
 The “exaggerated” progression of events
dramatizes the experience of love for these
teenagers.
“Call
me
but love…”
Romeo and
Juliet have
barely spoken a
hundred words
when they start
planning a
future together.
 Another artist shows the ending
depicted like this? What does the
use of color do for this image?
 What are the dangers of falling in love
too quickly?
 What about falling in love too slowly?
 What is the difference between love
and lust?
 http://khak313.posterous.com/romeo-and-juliet-st
 http://goddessguru.blogspot.com/p/sacred-
feminine.html
 http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Romeo_and
_Juliet_last_scene.jpg
 http://stylezap.wordpress.com/2010/10/14/moulinrouge-and-romeo-and-juliet-a-costume-review/