by melaniewp | Mar 17, 2014 | English Literature GCSE, GCSE, IGCSE, love in Romeo and Juliet, Romeo and Juliet, Romeo characterisation
Analyse the language and consider the type of the Petrarchan lover. Find an article about this here. This extract is from Act 1, Scene 1. It is the first time that we meet Romeo.BENVOLIO Alas, that love, so gentle in his view,Should be so tyrannous and rough...
by melaniewp | Jan 24, 2014 | GCSE, IGCSE, Podcasts, Romeo and Juliet
Themes of violent love and love of violence kick off in Romeo and Juliet right from the start. Get this five minute analysis I did for a GCSE student that sums it all up, from the Prologue through Act 1. Share and download it however you like.
by melaniewp | Dec 17, 2013 | GCSE, IGCSE, Romeo and Juliet
If you are studying Romeo and Juliet, grab the Leonardo DiCaprio version. It’s a fast and furious interpretation that uses modern styles with Shakespearean language. Switch on the subtitles and you’ll understand it much more easily. Note that some lines...
by melaniewp | Jun 2, 2013 | GCSE, IGCSE, Petrarch, Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare, Wyatt
Are you a Petrarchan lover? Do you drip, swoon and melt at the sight of your lady who kills you with a look?A Petrarchan lover is melodramatic, self-consciously suffering and has given himself up to the power of his mistress. At the start of Romeo and Juliet, this is...
by melaniewp | Jun 1, 2013 | Carpe Diem Poetry, GCSE, Go Lovely Rose, IGCSE, Romeo and Juliet, To His Coy Mistress
Romeo and Juliet is a play of love – specifically young love, of haste, rushing headlong. Their ‘violent delights’ have ‘violent ends’, as bright, and brief as ‘lightning’. To their parents, they are still children, full...
by melaniewp | May 31, 2013 | GCSE, IGCSE, Love, Model Essays, Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare
The love affair of Romeo and Juliet is at the centre of the play against a background of hate, which dominates the Prologue. In this, the ‘star-crossed lovers’ seem tiny and rapidly extinguised in the ‘fearful passage of their death-marked love’. This is young love of...
