Romeo and Juliet
How powerful love is to change a girl
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introduction
• William Shakespeare
• Soliloquy
• Romeo and Juliet
The image changes of Juliet
First time (act 1, scene 3)
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Young
Lady capulet: she is not fourteen
Inexperienced
Lady Capulet: Tell me, daughter Juliet. How
stands your disposition to be married?
• Juliet: It’s an honour that I dream not for.
• obedient to her family
• Juliet: I will look to like, if looking liking move
Juliet meets Romeo (act 1, scene 5)
• cleverer and charming
• Romeo: Have not saints lips, and holy palmers
too?
• Juliet: Ay, pilgrim, lips that they must use in
prayer.
• Romeo: Oh, dear saint, let lips do what hands do;
They pray, grant thou, lest faith turn to despair.
• Juliet: saint do mot move, though grant for
prayer’s sake.
• Romeo: then move mot, while my prayer’s effect I
take.
5 important soliloquy
On the balcony
(act2,scene2)
• starts to think about the future, while still
innocen
• Juliet: 'Tis but thy name that is my
enemy: Thou art thyself, though not a
Montague. Romeo, doff thy name, and for
thy name, which is no part of thee, Take all
myself.
Waiting for the marry message
(Act 2, Scene 5)
• still childish, directly shows her anxiety
• O, she is lame! love's heralds should be
thoughts, Which ten times faster glide than
the sun's beams, Driving back shadows
over louring hills: Therefore do nimblepinion'd doves draw love, And therefore
hath the wind-swift Cupid wings.
After wedding, waiting for the
night (act3, scene2)
• Ready to be a “woman”
• Juliet: And learn me how to lose a winning
match, Play'd for a pair of stainless maidenhoods
• Juliet: Come, gentle night, come, loving, blackbrow'd night' Give me my Romeo; and, when he
shall die, Take him and cut him out in little stars
• Juliet’s love and devotion to Romeo is the key
point to makes her mature.
When Romeo kills Juliet’s
cousin
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in rage about the nurse’s rebellion
Decides to be independent
The faithful love
Prepared to die
I'll to the friar, to know his remedy;
If all else fail, myself have power to die
In great fear
• Friar Lawrence advised Juliet to drink a
mysterious drug, pretending dead.
• Though being fear, she bravely goes
through with the plan, which she believes
will bring her and Romeo together once
again.
Characters in Romeo and
Juliet
• Static:much the same at the end of the play
as at the beginning
• Developing: changes with difficulties
Reflection