write about the emotions of love and hate. write about how r+j was written in the 1590s and how...
TRANSCRIPT
“HERE'S MUCH TO DO WITH
HATE, BUT MORE WITH
LOVE.”
1) INTRO Write about the emotions of love and
hate. Write about how R+J was written in the 1590s and how people saw love and marriage at the time. How is hatred expressed in the play?
Girls often married young. Arranged Marriage Marriage as a business deal Love not always the reason for marrying Juliet’s predicament
1) INTRO Write about the emotions of love and
hate. Write about how R+J was written in the 1590s and how people saw love and marriage at the time. How is hatred expressed in the play?
Gangs at the start fighting Could link to gangs today (Still relevant) The hatred of the gangs interferes with
the love of R+J
1) INTRO Write about the emotions of love and
hate. Write about how R+J was written in the 1590s and how people saw love and marriage at the time. How is hatred expressed in the play?
Both powerful emotions Not necessarily opposites? Love emerges out of the hatred
2) TYBALT VOWS REVENGE Fetch me my rapier, boy. What dares the slave
Come hither, covered with an antic face... Now, by the stock and honour of my kin,
To strike him dead, I hold it not a sin... 'Tis he, that villain Romeo... I will withdraw: but this intrusion shall
Now seeming sweet convert to bitter gall. Violent language. Insults Foreshadowing later in the play (3:1) Audience reaction?
Act 1, scene 5
3) THE FIRST MEETING Write about the way R describes J on
first seeing her. Write about the religious language. What does this say about R’s view of J? Perhaps write about how they are aware that it could be a mistake but don’t stop.
Act 1, scene 5
3) THE FIRST MEETING Did my heart love till now? forswear it,
sight!For I ne'er saw true beauty till this night.
Juliet: Good pilgrim... Romeo: Dear Saint...
R describes J as beautiful. Then calls J a saint. Use of religious metaphors. It is as if he will worship her.
How might the audience view R at this point?
Act 1, scene 5
4) THE BALCONY SCENE Look at the imagery that Romeo uses.
Perhaps focus on the light metaphors. Also, they talk about their names and how they represent the divisions (and the hatred?)
Act 2, scene 2
4) THE BALCONY SCENE But, soft! what light through yonder
window breaks?It is the east, and Juliet is the sun...The brightness of her cheek would shame those stars,As daylight doth a lamp...
J’s beauty shines out of her like a light.
Act 2, scene 2
4) THE BALCONY SCENE Juliet: 'Tis but thy name that is my
enemy;...
Romeo, doff thy name,And for that name which is no part of theeTake all myself.
...Romeo: Call me but love, and I'll be new
baptized;
Act 2, scene 2
5) THE FIGHT SCENE Look at when it happens in the play.
What has just happened? How does Shakespeare create contrast?
Look at the use of insults, Dramatic irony, word play. The deaths in this scene are obviously a result of the hatred in the play. The tone of the play changes here.
Act 3, scene 1
5) THE FIGHT SCENE TYBALT Romeo, the hate I bear thee can afford
No better term than this,--thou art a villain
Tybalt continues the insults from the Capulet’s ball.
ROMEO Tybalt, the reason that I have to love thee
Romeo contrasts Tybalt’s hate with his love
Act 3, scene 1
5) THE FIGHT SCENE ROMEO I do protest, I never injured thee,
But love thee better than thou canst devise,
Romeo is the only character here who knows of the marriage. This creates dramatic irony and confusion, making the eventual fight inevitable. Ironically, it is the marriage (which unites the families) which also leads to the fight.
Act 3, scene 1
5) THE FIGHT SCENE The two fights and deaths change the
tone of the play and what was a play that contained romance, comedy and a foreshadowing of tragedy becomes ones that is moving towards a tragic ending.
Mercutio, the joker of the play, is dead because of the hatred between the families. He curses the families for this: A plague on both your houses!
Act 3, scene 1
5) THE FIGHT SCENE Now Romeo, who has been the lover so
far in the play, becomes also the hater.
Away to heaven, respective lenity,And fire-eyed fury be my conduct now!
This hate leads to Tybalt’s death and Romeo’s banishment and ultimately the confusion that leads to the deaths of the two lovers.
Act 3, scene 1
6) PAST ONE AT ROONEY’S BACKGROUND The story is set in 1910 in New York. The
two main characters are a gang leader and a woman. What do we know about gangs and how women were treated at the time?
Only on the lower East Side of New York do the houses of Capulet andMontague survive.
As you can see from p.39 of your booklets, gangs controlled most of New York in 1920.
6) PAST ONE AT ROONEY’S BACKGROUND Attend to the revelation of the secret. In
Rooney's ladies may smoke!
In America in the early 1900s women, did not have the same rights as men. (think of the research you did on An Inspector Calls which happens around the same time). Women were not allowed to vote. In New York
6) PAST ONE AT ROONEY’S BACKGROUND Women and smoking in America Smoking cigarettes started becoming socially
acceptable in the early 1900s. Up until then, men mainly smoked cigars, Cigarettes were considered too ‘feminine.’ Only in 1910 did cigarettes match the popularity of cigars.
A historian wrote that, at this time, ‘on the lips of a woman, a cigarette was generally regarded as a badge of questionable character.’
Generally, women were still seen as the ‘weaker sex’. Society was dominated by men. Think about the story of ‘Rooney’s’ - are there any signs of this in the story?
7) THE GANGS OF NEW YORK ...experience whispered to him that the
finger of trouble would be busy among the chattering steins at Dutch Mike's that night. Close by his side drew Brick Cleary, his Mercutio...
Just as Benvolio, Mercutio and Romeo fight with the Capulets in 3:1 in the streets of Verona, so Cork and Brick get ready for a fight at Dutch Mike’s bar. O. Henry makes it clear that he is linking his story to that of Romeo and Juliet. The gangs (such as those we see in R+J) appear in every time, in every place. There is a stand-off at the beginning of the story just as there is in 3:1 of R+J. The reader is expecting violence.
7) THE GANGS OF NEW YORK you must observe the niceties of
deportment to the wink of any eyelash and to an inch ofelbow room at the bar when its patrons include foes of your house and kin.
How does O. Henry describe the hatred between the gangs. There is clearly tension. The slightly step out if line will lead to violence.
8) THE FIGHT IN DUTCH MIKE’S Look at the fight on p1. Analyse how it is
described and what is says about the hatred between the two gangs.
It is not known who first overstepped the bounds of punctilio; but the consequences were immediate ...
No one knows who started the fight. (Compare with R+J!)
8) THE FIGHT IN DUTCH MIKE’S Buck Malone, of the Mulberry Hills, with a
Dewey-like swiftness, got an eight-inch gun swung round from his hurricane deck.But McManus's simile must be the torpedo. He glided in under the guns and slipped a scant three inches of knife blade between the ribs of the Mulberry Hill cruiser.
Malone turns like a warship (slowly!) while Cork moves like a torpedo. Why does Henry use these kinds of metaphors or similes?
9) CORK AND RUBY MEET A girl, alone, entered Rooney's,... Then she looked again in the eyes of
Cork McManus and smiled. Instantly the doom of each was sealed.
Suggestion that it was fate that brought them together.
9) CORK AND RUBY MEET With the exchange of the mysterious
magnetic current came to each of them the instant desire to lie, pretend, dazzle and deceive, which is the worst thing about the hypocritical disorder known as love.
Henry says that people lie to try to impress someone they fall in love with. Is this true of Cork and Ruby? Does it apply to Romeo? Love is described as a ‘disorder’.
9) CORK AND RUBY MEET "Have another beer?“... "No, thanks," said the girl... "Your fingers are as yellow as mine.“... Say, who do you think you are talking
to?
Compare the language here to that of R+J at the Capulet’s ball.
The language of Cork and Ruby is down to earth, realistic.
9) CORK AND RUBY MEET "I think you're the swellest looker I've
had my lamps on in little old New York," said Cork impressively.
Cork turns on the ‘charm’. Compare this to Romeo’s words about Juliet being ‘true beauty’.
9) CORK AND RUBY MEET you make 'em all look like rag-dolls to
me.
Cork compares Ruby favourably to other women.
Remember what Romeo says about Juliet in 1:5, ‘So shows a snowy dove trooping with crows’.
10) Add your own paragraph here
11) Add your own paragraph here
12) CONCLUSIONThis is where you need to link the two
stories and sum up the main points of your essay.