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

• 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

First time (act 1, scene 3)

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 nimble-pinion'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, black-

brow'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

• 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