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Romeo and Juliet - GCSEPod (Love)

- Base on an older story of young love
- Young love = still relevant
- Variety of attitudes to love

R+J = Romantic
- Desire for love
- Love at first sight

Idealised love
- Want to cement love with marriage but mercy of fate

Benvolio
- Sceptical about love
- Urges Romeo to look elsewhere
- Believes that Romeo can be just as happy with someone else

Lord + Lady Capulet
- Materials, status and power before love
- Marriage should improve a girl’s situation in life
- Don’t consult Juliet about marriage
- Cares little about her feelings
- Lady Capulet echoes lord Capulet

Nurse
- Shallower view of love
- Interested in physical appearance
- Comments on Paris’ good looks
- Then on Romeo
- Speaks of sexual love
- ‘Go, girl, seek happy nights to happy days’
- Happy to help R+J
- Doesn’t consider asking J about committing bigamy (marry Paris)
- Binding nature of love has escaped nurse
- Fear of what’ll happen to Juliet is stronger than her belief of love

Friar Laurence
- Fear of love that’s too passionate
- Believes R+J should love moderately
- ‘These violent delights have violent ends’

Other types of love;
- Parental love (Lord and Lady Montague)
- Despair over R’s depression
- Lady Montague dies of grief

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