Transcript Controlled Assessment Plan

 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
 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
 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
Act 1, scene 5
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?
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Act 1, scene 5
 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
 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 2, scene 2
 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
 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
 Juliet:
'Tis but thy name that is my enemy;
...
Romeo, doff thy name,
And for that name which is no part of thee
Take all myself.
...
Romeo: Call me but love, and I'll be new
baptized;
Act 3, scene 1
 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
 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
 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
 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
 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.
 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 and
Montague survive.
 As
you can see from p.39 of your booklets,
gangs controlled most of New York in 1920.
 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
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Women and smoking in America
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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?

...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.
 you
must observe the niceties of deportment
to the wink of any eyelash and to an inch of
elbow 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.
 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!)
 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?
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.
 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’.
 "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.
 "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’.
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 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’.
 Add
your own paragraph here
 Add
your own paragraph here
This is where you need to link the two stories
and sum up the main points of your essay.