True or False?
The Prologue is written as a sonnet.
True
I am also known as the Prince of Cats
Tybalt
"O, swear not by the moon, the inconstant moon."
- Juliet
Repetition
Celestial imagery.
From forth the fatal loins of these two foes
A pair of star-cross'd lovers take their life.
- Prologue
Newscaster delivering news on a television set.
Zooming in shot.
"Star-cross'd lovers" on the screen, with the symbol of a ring.
What was the word of the week for week 1?
Eblandish - to get by via flattery.
Juliet is twelve years old.
False. She is 13.
I am a father-like figure to Romeo and make the potion for Juliet to take.
Friar Lawrence.
What are TWO examples of opposing forces in the play?
Love and hate
Conflict and peace
Fate and free will
What element is associated with Romeo throughout Luhrmann's play to differentiate him from the other male characters.
Water.
Act I: Opening scene of Romeo at the beach
Act II: Fish tank at the moment of love of first sight.
Act II: Pool scene = baptised anew in love.
Act III: Storm and rain when he kills Tybalt.
Other characters, such as Tybalt, are associated with fire.
What was the word of the week for week 2?
Bayard (16th C). Someone with the self-confidence of ignorance.
Mercutio dies in Act III, Scene II.
False. He dies in Act III, Scene I.
I am the diplomat for the Montague gang. I try to keep the peace.
Benvolio.
Why, then, O brawling love! O loving hate!
O any thing, of nothing first create!
O heavy lightness! serious vanity!
Mis-shapen chaos of well-seeming forms!
Feather of lead, bright smoke, cold fire,
sick health!
- Romeo
Oxymorons
Act II, Scene II
"Two of the fairest stars in all the heaven,
Having some business, do entreat her eyes
To twinkle in their spheres till they return.
What if her eyes were there, they in her head?
The brightness of her cheek would shame those stars,
As daylight doth a lamp; her eyes in heaven."
- Romeo
He captures the use of light and dark motifs, celestial imagery, and the setting of night through his use of SETTING.
- Fairy lights - 'twinkling'
- Nighttime setting
- Romantic, warm lighting - 'brightness/stars.'
What is the meaning of the word "Pickthank?"
Someone who curries favour by giving information to someone about someone else. E.g. a snitch.
The Nurse is more of a mother figure to Juliet than Lady Capulet.
True.
I want to marry Juliet, but unbeknownst to me, she is married to someone else!
Paris.
SAMPSON
Nay, as they dare. I will bite my thumb at them;
which is a disgrace to them, if they bear it.
Enter ABRAHAM and BALTHASAR
Stage directions.
Act II, Scene II - Balcony Scene
"My bounty is as boundless as the sea,
My love as deep; the more I give to thee,
The more I have, for both are infinite."
- Juliet
Luhrmann uses setting and misc-en-scene.
'Boundless as the sea.' - pool and water motifs.
'Sea/love as deep.' - Statue of Aphrodite, who was the Greek goddess of love and born from the sea.
What is the word that means "buffoon?"
Balatron
Before Paris' proposed interest in her, Juliet had never thought about getting married.
True.
I said "My child is yet a stranger in the world."
Lord Capulet.
(You must correctly identify THREE).
JULIET
Good pilgrim, you do wrong your hand too much,
Which mannerly devotion shows in this;
For saints have hands that pilgrims' hands do touch,
And palm to palm is holy palmers' kiss.
ROMEO
Have not saints lips, and holy palmers too?
JULIET
Ay, pilgrim, lips that they must use in prayer.
ROMEO
O, then, dear saint, let lips do what hands do;
They pray, grant thou, lest faith turn to despair.
Speaking in a sonnet
Religious references/imagery.
Act III, Scene I - Fight Scene
ROMEO
This shall determine that.
They fight; TYBALT falls
BENVOLIO
Romeo, away, be gone!
The citizens are up, and Tybalt slain.
Stand not amazed: the prince will doom thee death,
If thou art taken: hence, be gone, away!
ROMEO
O, I am fortune's fool!
Luhrmann visualises the fight scene between Tybalt and Romeo by turning it into a car chase.
- Montage
- Storm and rain = associated with Romeo's wrath.
- Birds' eye shot of Romeo looking up at the heavens when he says "I am Fortune's Fool!"
What is the word of the week for week 7?
Aureole