LO. To prepare for Oral on Act 1 sc.5 in Romeo & Juliet

1. LO. To prepare for Oral on Act 1 sc.5 in Romeo & Juliet Contrast the language of hate, the language of love and the language of power

2. Act 1 sc 5: Language of Passion and Power

3. Answer the questions. • Find 4 quotes which show Capulet’s power. • Find 4 quotes which show Tybalt’s hate. • Find 4 quotes which show Romeo’s love. • Find 4 quotes which show Juliet’s love.

4. The Capulets

5. Find 4 quotes which show Capulet’s power? • “It is my will …put off these frowns” • “He shall be endured! What goodman boy! I say he shall, Go to Am I the master here or you!” • “You are a saucy boy. Is’t so indeed? This trick may chance to scathe you. I know what You must contrary me.” • “Be quiet or… I’ll make you quiet!” Capulet uses forceful language, insults and orders.

6. Use of Personal Pronouns • “my will” • “I say” • “Am I the master here or you!” • “I know what You must contrary me.” • I’ll make you quiet!” ‘I’ set against ‘you’ - expressing conflict. Emphasis on I, me, my – Capulet’s ego.

7. Use of Imperatives –Orders, Commands • put off these frowns • Go to (That’s enough!) Go to! Repetition • Be quiet • Be patient. Take no note of him. Forceful Orders that are not imperatives because they use he or you in front of them e.g. “He shall be endured!

8. Rhetorical Devices • “Am I the master here or you!” • “Is’t so indeed?” Questions that don’t expect an answer. Use of 3 words or 3 phrases “You’ll make a mutiny among my guests You’ll set cock-a-hoop! You’ll be the man” Rhetorical devices are for emphasis

9. Swearing, Blasphemy • God shall mend my soul Capulet says Tybalt has made him so angry by standing up to him that his anger is sinful! Blasphemy is using God’s name or religious words when you aren’t praying. People do it to express strong feeling. E.g. Oh my God!

10. Features of power language Use of: • personal pronouns: I, me, my • imperatives: giving orders. • insults: princox, goodman boy • statements of status: Am I the master • repetition and emphasis

11. Tybalt

12. Find 4 quotes which show Tybalt’s hate • “Fetch me my rapier, boy.” • “To strike him dead I hold it not a sin.” • “A villain that is hither come in spite To scorn at our solemnities this night.” • “Patience perforce with wilful choler meeting / Makes my flesh tremble / This intrusion shall … convert to bitterest gall.” Tybalt sounds barely in control. He is angry and prejudiced. He using hissing sounds (sibilance).

13. Find the following in Tybalt’s quotations • Imperatives • Use of personal pronouns • Blasphemy • Insults • Rhetorical question What effects do these features have on the meaning and mood?

14. Find features of language of hate: what are their effects? • Simple statements of raw feeling • Rhyming couplets • Words of one syllable • Use of plosive sounds: p repeated or b • Use of sibilance: hissing sounds • Use of alliteration (repetition of the first consonant sound in words near each other for emphasis or onomatopoeic effects.)

15. Tybalt: the Embodiment of the Feud

16. Find 4 quotations to show Romeo’s love. • “She doth teach the torches to burn bright” • “She hangs upon the cheek of night Like a rich jewel in an Ethiop’s ear.” • “So shows a snowy dove trooping with crows” • “Did I e’er love till now?...For I ne’er saw true beauty till this night.” Romeo uses beautiful figurative language to convey the effect Juliet has on him.

17. What are the effects of repeated sounds? • Assonance: repeated vowel sound She, teach, she, cheek, Ethiop’s ear, beauty, dear The “ee” sound suggests Romeo’s passion, tension and excitement. Find other examples of assonance and give their effects.

18. Consonance & Alliteration Repeated consonant sounds near each other: alliteration at the beginning of words, consonance – anywhere • “She doth teach the torches to burn bright” The effects are mainly to emphasise feeling by repeating similar sounds.

19. Features of language of love • Figurative imagery – beautiful, imaginative comparisons: snowy dove • Harmonious sounds, assonance – repeating a vowel sound e.g. teach, cheek, Ethiop’s ear, beauty, dear. • Hushed sounds, whispering, soft. • Stichomythia – repeating the words of another speaker

20. Find 4 quotes to show Juliet’s love. • “Saints do not move though grant…” She is giving him permission to kiss her. • “Then have my lips the sin that they have took?” She is begging another kiss. • “If he be married my grave is like to be my wedding bed.” • “My only love sprung from my only hate!” Romeo & Juliet pick up and use each other’s words. This is stichomythia. They seem close.

21. Stichomythia • Stichomythia can emphasise love or hate. It locks characters in to each other so they can’t see or hear anything else. Tyb: I’ll not endure him! Cap: He shall be endured!

22. “And palm to palm is holy palmers’ kiss”

23. Stichomythia: the kiss Rom: My lips, two blushing pilgrims ready stand To smooth that rough touch with a gentle kiss. Jul: …you do wrong your hand too much… For saints have hands that pilgrim’s hands do touch And palm to palm is holy palmer’s kiss. Rom: Have not saints lips and holy palmer’s too? Jul: Ay, pilgrim, lips that they must use in prayer. Rom: O then, dear saint, let lips do what hands do:

24. Shakespeare uses religious language for love • Romeo and Juliet’s love is shown to be real, deep and passionate rather than simple attraction because of the religious language. Romeo feels like a pilgrim worshipping at a shrine. Juliet is his goddess.

25. Compare and contrast love and hate • Features of language of love can be similar to the language of hate because they both show strong feeling. • Repetition of words • Repetition of sounds • Simple words carry strong feeling

26. J: Then have mylips the sin that they have took?R: Sin from my lips? O trespasssweetly urged. Give me mysin again. Discuss the use of poetic effects in the quotation above. Identify the devices if you can but that is less important than saying what effect they have on the meaning and mood.