GCSE English 30/10/04

frustrated. We don’t know weather he was dumped or weather he’d just met her. All we know is that he is obsessed with her.Romeo’s friends tease him because they think he’s really too obsessed over Rosaline and they think that he should just forget about her and just get on with his life like any other normal person.Paris is the mayor’s son and so has allot of money as well as power when he becomes mayor. And the reason that Capulet is throwing a party is because Paris has been engaged to Juliet by arrangement and he wants to celebrate their marriage with everyone.Romeo is thinking of Rosaline before the party and if she’ll be there. What is ironic about this is that as soon as he gets to the party he can’t stop thinking about Juliet whom he’d just met at this party and had completely forgot about Rosaline.I think that the Nurse is fond of Juliet when Juliet’s mother talks about marriage because Nurse has helped raised Juliet ever since she was little. So this has created a sense of motherhood between Nurse and Juliet which is shown by Nurse complementing Juliet on her beauty.Nurse describes Paris as being ruggedly handsome, charming and a gentleman. Even though later on she completely changes the argument when Nurse meets Romeo for the first time.The reason that Romeo is worried is because with him being in love with Juliet means that if he is captured then the Capulets will execute him. We know that this is ironic because he is going to die anyway so it really doesn’t matter whether he gets caught or not this story is going to end the same with death.Romeo says that he’d not known true love till this night, which means that all the times before he’d not truly loved until this night. He also describes Juliet as being holy in some way by talking about his lips as being pilgrims (holy).Tybalt is always angry at something, either because he does not get his way or because someone has made a mockery of him and so wishes for revenge. If it doesn’t go his way then things can turn really nasty really quickly.I think the guy could speak in any other terms than just in words with many different meanings. Also he could lighten up a bit on the love poems, if he did the same things in the book in today’s society there would be a few nasty comments made about his character (clingy, needy, desperate and queer).The reason that Juliet is horrified is because if she was to continue with this forbidden love then her own family would defiantly execute her.On the balcony Juliet says “Romeo o Romeo, Wherefore art thou Romeo.” This translated from old English too new English means, “Why are you Romeo.” Not “Where are you Romeo.” This says that Juliet does love Romeo but she knows that if she is to fall in love with Romeo, then she’ll have to pay for that because he is a Montigue and she is a Capulet.The line “As is a winged messenger of heaven,” spoken by Romeo complimenting Juliet on her beauty. He talks about her as if she is an angle from heaven with news that she speaks.When they both finally talk Juliet is trying to wrong foot Romeo in his speeches of love to her, so that she can get out of this easily and without being to rood. But she also wants him to not fail so that her love for him increases. Thorough this duel of compliments and counter-compliments Juliet is perceived as a tease and Romeo as the hero.Romeo and Juliet make plans to get married the next morning and run away from it all. Every lovers dream. They hope that they can run away from all the fighting between their two families and start a new life alone.Friar Laurence is a priest and so is considered to be a good man, a man of god. And the reason that he is perceived as being skilled with plants and their healing powers is because at the start of where we first meet Friar Laurence he is talking about a plant and the medicinal powers it has.Friar Laurence believes in god, so for someone to say that they love someone and then to say that they love someone else soon after. This is against his beliefs and so tells Romeo off for loving so foolishly. When Friar Laurence agrees to help Romeo out he believes that if he can wed Romeo and Juliet then their families would turn from hatred to pure love.Tybalt hates all Montigues and so he would challenge Romeo to a duel of swords just because of all of his anger and rage.Juliet sent Nurse to talk to Romeo about what is going to happen about the wedding. But Nurse caught Romeo with his friends at kind of a bad time.Romeo tells Nurse to tell Juliet that when she goes to confession there Friar Laurence will wed them on that night so that their dreams will come true.When Nurse arrives back with news from Romeo to give to Juliet she does not immediately tell Juliet because Nurse wishes to tease her just for fun. This makes Juliet very impatient and yet still the Nurse persists in dragging out the news.I think that Nurse does like Romeo and also approves of the marriage between Romeo and Juliet because she doesn’t believe in what is best for the family, she believes in what’s best for Juliet and Nurse thinks Romeo is good for Juliet. Alexander Wilson GCSE English