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.
Eduqas's Shakespeare questions don't mark context: the extract question (15 marks) and the whole-play essay (20 marks, plus 5 for spelling, punctuation, vocabulary and sentence structures) both mark response and analysis of language, form and structure (AO1 and AO2). Use context only in a phrase that supports an interpretation, and say which question each worked paragraph practises.
