What do we learn about the personalities of the following characters in Act I, Scene I - PowerPoint Presentation

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What do we learn about the personalities of the following characters in Act I, Scene I of Romeo and Juliet?BenvolioTybaltThe PrinceRomeo

Let’s ReviewSlide2

RosalineSlide3

A foil is a person who contrasts with another character in order to make various traits in each character more apparent. They complement each other.

Character FoilsSlide4

Act I, scene iiiSlide5

Lady Capulet“This is the matter – Nurse, give us leave awhile, / We must talk in secret. Nurse, come back again.“Enough of this. I pray thee hold thy peace.”“Speak briefly, can you like of Paris’ love?”Nurse

“I have but four [teeth]”“I remember it well…I never shall forget it.”“Thou was the prettiest babe that e’er I nursed. An I might live to see thee married once, I have my wish.”“Go, girl, seek happy nights to happy days.”

Act I, scene iiiSlide6

Lady CapuletFormalRefinedDetached from JulietNurseEarthy (course and unrefined)Crude-humoredWarm and loving

Character FoilSlide7

Act I, scene iv

Romeo

Benvolio

MercutioSlide8
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Mercutio“Nay, gentle Romeo, we must have you dance.”“You are a lover.”“And so did I. / That dreamers often lie.”Queen Mab speech“True, I talk of dreams; / Which are the children of an idle brain, / begot of nothing but vain fantasy”

Romeo“You have dancing shoes / With nimble soles; I have a soul of lead / So stakes me to the ground I cannot move.”“I dreamt a dream to night.”“In bed asleep, while they do dream things true.”“for my mind misgives / Some consequence, yet hanging in the stars”

Act I, scene ivSlide10

MercutioRealistJokesterBelieves you should enjoy lifeRomeoDreamerUsually more seriousBelieves in the ideals of passionate love

Character FoilSlide11

Tybalt (hates peace) and Benvolio (peacemaker)Mrs. Capulet (uninvolved) and the nurse (motherly) Mercutio (realist) and Romeo (dreamer)Paris (“head” choice) and Romeo (“heart” choice)

Foils in R&JSlide12

HW: My Personal FoilCreate a character profile for your personal foil. Think about the personality traits that you possess and write about a fictional character who would be the opposite of you.Slide13

CapuletServantRomeoTybaltJulietNurse

BenvolioSpeaking

Parts –

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If I profane with my unworthiest handThis holy shrine, the gentle sin is this:My lips, two blushing pilgrims, ready standTo smooth that rough touch with a tender kiss.

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' kissHave not saints lips, and holy palmers too?Ay, pilgrim, lips that they must use in prayer

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O, then, dear saint, let lips do what hands do.

They pray; grant thou, lest faith turn to despair

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Saints do not move, though grant for prayers' sake

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Then move not, while my prayer’s effect I take.Slide15
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Explain the change that happens in Romeo between the beginning and end of Act I. What does this reveal about his character?

End of Act I!Slide17

Having left the feast, Romeo decides that he cannot go home. He must instead try to find Juliet. He climbs a wall bordering the Capulet property and leaps down into the Capulet orchard. Benvolio and Mercutio enter, calling out for Romeo. They are sure he is nearby, but Romeo does not answer. Exasperated and amused, Mercutio mocks Romeo’s feelings for Rosaline in an obscene speech. Mercutio and Benvolio exit under the assumption that Romeo does not want to be found. In the orchard, Romeo hears Mercutio’s teasing. He says to himself, “He jests at scars that never felt a wound” (2.1.43).Act II, scene iSlide18

RomeoJulietNurse

Speaking Parts – II.iiSlide19

The famous balcony scene