How Shakespeare presents Juliet, and how the character develops across the text: from an obedient thirteen-year-old daughter to a wife who defies her family and chooses death.
The key quotations for this character and how to analyse them, with the context that shapes them.
How to use the lesson's key quotations in an essay, with a short worked paragraph.
Key quotations: 'It is an honour that I dream not of', 'My only love sprung from my only hate!', 'It is too rash, too unadvised, too sudden', 'Gallop apace, you fiery-footed steeds', 'Beautiful tyrant! fiend angelical!', 'If all else fail, myself have power to die', 'What if this mixture do not work at all?', 'O happy dagger!'.
Context: a daughter's duty to obey her father, and Juliet's growing independence and courage.
Edexcel's Shakespeare question has two parts: part (a) on the printed extract marks only language, form and structure (AO2), so context earns nothing there; part (b) on the play elsewhere, from memory, marks the argument and its references (AO1, 15 marks) and context (AO3, 5 marks), not language analysis. Say which part each worked paragraph and exam tip is for.
