Language

Romeo is an emotional, immature, fickle teenage boy

Intro

Romeo and Rosaline

(More like lust than love)

"ROMEO

She hath, and in that sparing makes huge waste,

For beauty, starved with her severity,

Cuts beauty off from all posterity.

She is too fair, too wise, wisely too fair,"

-Romeo is sad that Rosline doesn't want to sleep with him

-He says it's a waste for her to never have sex

-Seems more like he just wants to sleep with her than actually love her

"ROMEO

     'Tis the way

To call hers exquisite, in question more.

These happy masks that kiss fair ladies' brows,

Being black, puts us in mind they hide the fair.

He that is strucken blind cannot forget

The precious treasure of his eyesight lost.

Show me a mistress that is passing fair;

What doth her beauty serve but as a note

Where I may read who passed that passing fair?

Farewell. Thou canst not teach me to forget."

-Romeo claims he will never be able to forget about Rosaline

-He says seeing beautiful girls will only remind him of how beautiful Rosaline is.

-Then when he sees Juliet he forgets about Rosaline

"Did my heart ever love anyone before this moment? My eyes were liars, then, because I never saw true beauty before tonight."

Always pitied himself

"FRIAR LAWRENCE

O deadly sin! O rude unthankfulness!

Thy fault our law calls death, but the kind Prince,

Taking thy part, hath rushed aside the law,

And turned that black word “death” to “banishment.”

This is dear mercy, and thou seest it not."

Romeo and Tybalt

However, many people may think Romeo was not immature when he tried to resolve the fight with Tybalt. 

He surrendered to Tybalt, his enemy, because of Juliet showing his loyalty to her and showing that he was willing to look weak in front of his enemy for her

Romeo and Juliet

Claimed to be in love with her after 3 days

Didn't even think about the consequences of killing Tybalt, he let his emotions get the best of him

Pressured Friar to marry him and Juliet right away instead of thinking a better, more rational idea.

Thinks the only way to solve problems with Juliet is to kill himself

"ROMEO Ha, banishment! Be merciful, say “death,” For exile hath more terror in his look, Much more than death. Do not say “banishment.”" Conclusion

http://www.cliffsnotes.com/literature/r/romeo-and-juliet/character-analysis/romeo

http://www.123helpme.com/view.asp?id=3239

OR

Nurse is Juliet's emotional mother

Intro

Conclusion

Juliet and her dad

Juliet and her mom

Juliet and Nurse

Conclusion

Romeo and Juliet Formal Write

All the choices seemed cool but I decided to do E)

E) The "language" of love is an important part of the relationships in the play. Choose your favourite passage/s on love and discuss how the words of the characters influence your opinion of their "love". Include characters other than Romeo and Juliet... and "love" in various versions. Why do you think HOW something is said is so important to validating the quality/worth of a relationship? What kind of language exists today that makes something romantic or "real love" and not just a crush? Find examples from modern stories or real world examples to connect to


My back up choice is D)
D) Mercutio is often considered one of Shakespeare's best characters and yet he is killed quite early in this play. Discuss how the relationships Mercutio is in influence his behaviour/choices, and discuss WHY you think so many people (including me) find him interesting and pleasure to watch/read. What do you think Shakespeare would say about his character Mercutio? Would he like him? Would he think he was brave, honourable, immature, ignorant, or wise?

I think both these choices would be a little bit challenging but also interesting!

What is Love? Perspective of Lady Capulet

Lady Capulets Soliloquy on Love:

 "I don't understand why Juliet is hesitant to wed Paris. I was younger than she, when i concieved her, and I turned out great. I did not lose anything but gain money, and power; I have the best parties and I have enough money to last myself a lifetime. I greatly appreciate my life filled with parties, and luxeries."

 "So why does my daughter not want to wed such a handsome and wealthy man, Paris? Can she not see what fortune it will bring her and our family, she has nothing to lose exactly like me. He is handsome, and she is a beautiful gentlewoman just like I am. She would only make him complete. Doesn't Juliet want to live a divine, elegant life of Status and wealth, what more can she want?"

 "Maybe she actually longs for true love... I wonder what would have happened if I was not married and beared juliet at such a young age. I never truly longed for love but now that I think of it, I'm not sure if I am truly happy with Mr. Capulet. I am happy that I have luxerious parties but what if I actually have a problem. Deep down all the drinking, partying and drugs are what I use to cover up my desire for true hapiness. I just want her to be happy, I wouldn't want her to end up like me but this is important to her father."

 All this thinking is giving me a headache, I need some damn medicine. Where is my Nurse..."

Mid Term Reflection

A) I think I should get 23% for the first part because I am good with attendance. I am not away or late a lot and when I am I have a good reason. I can also control myself in class when it comes to technology. I know when the appropriate time is to use my phone and when not to but sometimes having our phones makes it hard to fully focus on assignments.

B)I think I should get 23% for this part as well. I have all my assignments in. I don't think there are any that I haven't submitted but I've handed one or two of them in late. Usually I hand in assignments late because I have the post written but I just forget to turn it in.

C) I think I should get a 22-23% on this part. I try to use pictures in my posts when i can but maybe I can find ways to use more pictures and videos in my posts. I do think that I put a lot of thought and effort into my posts and that I do the assignments for my own learning benefit and compared to the class I still think I put effort into my work compared to other people. For example, in my "How is Your Heart" post, I did a lot of reaserch to prove my point and I was able to use a lot of statistics in the post

D) When it comes to class contribution, I think I deserve 20%. I don't think I'm horrible when it comes to contributing in the class but I know I can definitely do better. I really need to work on contributing in class discussions and commenting on people's blogs that I'm not that close too and that's something I'll try to do more often. I have contributed by commenting on class discussions on edmodo. I think this was my best comment 

because I disagreed with what Simran thought the line meant and when I explained to her what I thought it meant, she understood that Romeo thought of love as something that sucks in the beginning than something that was really amazing. I also let Unjali use my iPod when hers isn't working and she needs to log into edmodo or blogger.

Overall, I think I should get 88-89%.

Romeo and Juliet Chorus

Two households, both alike in dignity,
In fair Verona, where we lay our scene,-Two families, the Montagues and the Capulets, both alike in dignity. Dignity meaning 

the state or quality of being worthy of honor or respect.

In the beautiful city Verona where this scene is set.

From ancient grudge break to new mutiny,
Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean- An old feud breaks out into a new brutality,

And hands are stained by the blood of their own townspeople

From forth the fatal loins of these two foes
A pair of star-cross'd lovers take their life;-

Children from the two rival families can't be together but fall in love anyway and commit suicide

Whose misadventured piteous overthrows
Do with their death bury their parents' strife.- Whose sad deaths put an end to the dispute between their families

The fearful passage of their death-mark'd love,-

The frightening passing of their condemned love

And the continuance of their parents' rage,
Which, but their children's end, nought could remove,-

And the continuance of their parents hatred for each other could not be stopped except by the deaths of their children

Is now the two hours' traffic of our stage;
The which if you with patient ears attend,
What here shall miss, our toil shall strive to mend.-

In the two hours that this play will take place, if you listen carefully, you will see what was left out of here about how they tried to fix the problem