How Shakespeare presents Tybalt, and how the character develops across the text: the hot-headed defender of Capulet honour whose hatred drives the tragedy.
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: 'I hate the word, / As I hate hell, all Montagues, and thee', 'This, by his voice, should be a Montague', 'To strike him dead, I hold it not a sin', 'Now seeming sweet convert to bitter gall', 'Boy, this shall not excuse the injuries', 'more than prince of cats'.
Context: honour, the duel and young men's violence, and Tybalt as a foil to Benvolio.
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.
