Hi all I would like some help with Romeo and Juliet on analysing Capulet's behaviour in Act 1 Scene 2?
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Romeo And Juliet by William Shakespeare\n\nhttp://www.elook.org/literature/shakespeare/romeo-and-juliet/\n\nI have found 12 summaries for you to look at, click the link below. I have included a short extract to give you a taste of what the reviews have to offer and they’re FREE..!!!\n\nNotes:  Act 1 Scene 2.\n\nIn this brief scene, the audience learns more about Juliet, the heroine of the play who has not yet been introduced on the stage. She is young girl of fourteen and obviously Capulet's pride and joy. The father says of Juliet that "the earth has swallowed all hopes but she." When Paris asks Capulet for her hand in marriage, he hesitates at first; then he says that he will agree if the idea pleases Juliet. In the thirteenth century, when noble marriages were usually arranged by the family, it is a loving father who wants to please his child. His concern for Juliet is similar to the concern for Romeo revealed by Lady Montague in the first scene. Even though these families hate one another, they dearly love their children.  More…….\n\nhttp://www.pinkmonkey.com/booknotes/monkeynotes/romeo5.asp\n\n\nhttp://summarycentral.tripod.com/romeoandjuliet.htm\n\nhttp://www.freebooknotes.com/book.php3?id=363\n\nhttp://www.antistudy.com/search.php?title=Romeo+And+Juliet+\n\nhttp://www.antistudy.com/search.php?title=Romeo+And+Juliet+\n\nhttp://www.cummingsstudyguides.net/xRomeoJul.html#Romeo\n\nhttp://drb.lifestreamcenter.net/Lessons/RomJul/index.htm\n\nhttp://www.clicknotes.com/\n\nAn analysis of the play by Shakespeare\n\nhttp://www.theatrehistory.com/british/romeoandjuliet001.html\n\nhttp://www.cummingsstudyguides.net/xRomeoJul.html#Characters\n\nhttp://www.pinkmonkey.com/booknotes/barrons/romeojl11.asp\n\nGood luck.\n\nKevin, Liverpool, England.
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http://www.sparknotes.com/shakespeare/romeojuliet/\nhttp://www.sparknotes.com/shakespeare/romeojuliet/quotes.html\nhttp://www.shakespeare-online.com/plays/romeoscenes.html\n\nhope that helps :D
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Check here at SparkNotes:\nhttp://www.sparknotes.com/shakespeare/richardii/\n\nThey have everything you're looking for, including plot summaries, character analysis, and commentary.\n\nBut be careful not to plagiarize. I'm a teacher and can just about guarantee you that your teacher also knows about SparkNotes. Put it into your own words.
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The Forcefulness of Love \n\nRomeo and Juliet is the most famous love story in the English literary tradition. Love is naturally the play’s dominant and most important theme. The play focuses on romantic love, specifically the intense passion that springs up at first sight between Romeo and Juliet. In Romeo and Juliet, love is a violent, ecstatic, overpowering force that supersedes all other values, loyalties, and emotions. In the course of the play, the young lovers are driven to defy their entire social world: families (“Deny thy father and refuse thy name,” Juliet asks, “Or if thou wilt not, be but sworn my love, / And I’ll no longer be a Capulet”); friends (Romeo abandons Mercutio and Benvolio after the feast in order to go to Juliet’s garden); and ruler (Romeo returns to Verona for Juliet’s sake after being exiled by the Prince on pain of death in II.i.76–78). Love is the overriding theme of the play, but a reader should always remember that Shakespeare is uninterested in portraying a prettied-up, dainty version of the emotion, the kind that bad poets write about, and whose bad poetry Romeo reads while pining for Rosaline. Love in Romeo and Juliet is a brutal, powerful emotion that captures individuals and catapults them against their world, and, at times, against themselves.\nThe powerful nature of love can be seen in the way it is described, or, more accurately, the way descriptions of it so consistently fail to capture its entirety. At times love is described in the terms of religion, as in the fourteen lines when Romeo and Juliet first meet. At others it is described as a sort of magic: “Alike bewitchèd by the charm of looks” (II.Prologue.6). Juliet, perhaps, most perfectly describes her love for Romeo by refusing to describe it: “But my true love is grown to such excess / I cannot sum up some of half my wealth” (III.i.33–34). Love, in other words, resists any single metaphor because it is too powerful to be so easily contained or understood.\nRomeo and Juliet does not make a specific moral statement about the relationships between love and society, religion, and family; rather, it portrays the chaos and passion of being in love, combining images of love, violence, death, religion, and family in an impressionistic rush leading to the play’s tragic conclusion.\n\n\n\n\nLove as a Cause of Violence\n \nThe themes of death and violence permeate Romeo and Juliet, and they are always connected to passion, whether that passion is love or hate. The connection between hate, violence, and death seems obvious. But the connection between love and violence requires further investigation.\nLove, in Romeo and Juliet, is a grand passion, and as such it is blinding; it can overwhelm a person as powerfully and completely as hate can. The passionate love between Romeo and Juliet is linked from the moment of its inception with death: Tybalt notices that Romeo has crashed the feast and determines to kill him just as Romeo catches sight of Juliet and falls instantly in love with her. From that point on, love seems to push the lovers closer to love and violence, not farther from it. Romeo and Juliet are plagued with thoughts of suicide, and a willingness to experience it: in Act III, scene iii, Romeo brandishes a knife in Friar Lawrence’s cell and threatens to kill himself after he has been banished from Verona and his love. Juliet also pulls a knife in order to take her own life in Friar Lawrence’s presence just three scenes later. After Capulet decides that Juliet will marry Paris, Juliet says, “If all else fail, myself have power to die” (III.v.242). Finally, each imagines that the other looks dead the morning after their first, and only, sexual experience (“Methinks I see thee,” Juliet says, “. . . as one dead in the bottom of a tomb” (III.v.242; III.v.55–56). This theme continues until its inevitable conclusion: double suicide. This tragic choice is the highest, most potent expression of
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The friar thinks about juliet's feelings and how to better everyone. He was not selfish and unwilling to marry the two. He also hid romeo so he could say good bye to juliet.\n\nThe nurse was always helping her until the end. But she helped to plan the wedding and tell romeo. But she did change her mind at the end and therefor was more realistic to the situation.
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Go to sparknotes.com.\n\nRomeo is dumped...He meets Juliet...Mercucio dies...R & J are married...Romeo is banished...Juliet fakes her death...Romeo doesn't get the message and poisons himself...Juliet wakes up and stabs herself.
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Act I, Scene I:\nFirst, while ending a meeting, the witches agree to reconvene “when the battle’s lost and won” (Line 4). Then they warn the audience that “fair is foul, and foul is fair” (Line 12).\nIn Scene II, the nobleman Ross informs King Duncan that a trusted lord, the thane of Cawdor, is a traitor who conspired with the enemy. In other words, the fair Cawdor is foul.\n.......When the witches predict that Macbeth will become king and that Banquo will beget a line of kings, both men react by speaking contradictions reflecting caution and confusion. Banquo says in Act I, Scene III:  \nOftentimes, to win us to our harm, \nThe instruments of darkness tell us truths, \nWin us with honest trifles, to betray's \nIn deepest consequence.\n\nFrom: In Macbeth True Is False and Fair Is Foul\nBy Michael J. Cummings © 2006\nThere are more paradoxes listed in the essay.\nhttp://cummingsstudyguides.net/xMacbeth.html
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Do your own homework. If you had a question about one quote where I could believe that you read the play but forgot the context of a single line, I would help you. As it is, you need to do your own work. Them's the rules. \n\nFurther, your questions should read: Can I get what these quotes mean and WHO is speaking to WHOM? \n\nClearly, English is not your favorite subject. But suck it up. You deserve no credit for work you ask others to do for you.
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Romeo and Juliet Quotes\n\nACT II\n\nBut soft!  What light through yonder window breaks?  It is the East and Juliet is the sun!  Arise fair sun and kill the envious moon. \n \n\nDeny thy father and refuse they name!  Or, if thou wilt not, be but sworn my love, and I’ll no longer be a Capulet. \n \n\nI know not how to tell thee who I am.  My name, dear saint, is hateful to myself, because it’s an enemy to thee. \n \n\nO, swear not by the moon, the fickle moon, the inconstant moon, that monthly changes in her circle orb, Lest that thy love prove likewise variable. \n \n\nO, wilt that leave me so unsatisfied? \n \n\nGood night, good night!  Parting is such sweet sorrow that I shall say good night till it be morrow. \n \n\nThese violent delights have violent ends.
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1. Romeo\n2. Mercutio\n3. Juliet\n4. Can't remember\n5. Capulet (Juliet's father)\n\nI don't think I can sum up all of them, but #2 is right after Mercutio is wounded- these are his last words. #3 Is when Juliet is in such distress about her love for Romeo and that he has killed her cousin that she talks in oxymorons. #5 is when Capulet is enraged over what he thinks is his daughter's ungratefulness (loving Romeo, the son of his enemy).\n\nHope this helps a bit.
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Friar Lawrence is the easiest place to start - he hides the wedding from their families in the hope that this will 'turn your households rancour into pure love' - think about his job as a (catholic) priest - he should be trying to bring the families together as soon as possible and not enabling the children (Juliet is only 13) to go behind their parent's backs. Once again he shows himself in the guise of a deceiver by proposing the sleeping potion in order to fake Juliet's death - surely he would have done better to go and tell the families of the marriage then?\n\nRomeo marries Juliet days after being spurned by another girl - Rosaline - scientists now suggest it takes a year t fall in love with someone so surely he is just marrying Juliet out of lust.\n\nBoth Romeo and Juliet allow themselves to be controlled by others - Shakespeare in the opening chous refers to them as star crossed - suggesting they are controlled by fate but then is that what you expect from a hero and heroine? Our hero's are people who we admire for their strength and courage - do Romeo and Juliet's actions fit with this?\n\nPerhaps the central flaw is` that the characters allow themselves to be controlled by others - just as Shakespeare himself was controlled by his patrons.
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Although Shakespeare does not answer this question in his play, the source on which he based the play–The Tragical History of Romeus and Juliet (1562), by Arthur Brooke, does provide an answer: envy. According to Brooke, the ancestors of the Capulets and Montagues were esteemed, well-to-do aristocrats who wished to be the center of attention. Consequently, the Capulets were jealous of the Montagues, and vice versa. And so, Brooke says, a feud was born: \n\n     "Of grudging envy's root, black hate and rancour grew \n      As, of a little spark, oft riseth mighty fire."
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1.they slightly showed silas & his punishment scene..u can c him sort of whipping himself..\n\n2. they din showed it per se..it was jz a glimpse thru when sophie recalls the incident\n\n3. the vitruvian man pose..not a near shot..it was a shot fr afar..\n\nhope these helps.
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Hmm... I blame the feud between the houses of Capulet and Montague.  Without the fighting, Romeo might not have been banished, and then he wouldn't have heard that Juliet died and he wouldn't have killed himself and therefore Juliet wouldn't have killed herself.  Lady Montague wouldnt have died from heartache of Romeo's banishment.  Tybalt and Mercutio wouldn't have died from a swordfight.  Lots of trouble from that feuding...
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Memorize the Solique in Act Three (I think its act three)\nCalled the "advice to actors speech." It is quite striking.\nAnd everyone is tired of to be or not to be....\nSpeak the speech I pray you as I pronounced it to you trippingly on the tounge.\nDo not mouth it as many of our players do and do not saw the air too much with your hands thus.!\netc... etc... Striking verbage. \nGod he could write!\nInteresting premise also ... A play within a play....\nI love that stuff... He was soooooo clever...