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FOlivo - Shakespeare's Great Tragedies
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Pag.112 es.1

“Life in death”: B “… the lean abhorred monster keeps / thee here in dark to be his paramour?” ( line 4-5)

Pag.112 es.2

  1. Romeo descends into the graceyard
  2. He wonders how Juliet can look so beautiful in death
  3. He fancies that Death has paramour in dark with her.
  4. Before taking his position, he asks his eyes to allow their last look.
  5. Then he begs his arms to take their last embrace and his lips to kiss hers.
  6. He drinks the poison and falls by her side.

Pag.112 es.3

In line 25 Juliet says ‘happy dagger’ meaning that she welcomes death because i twill reunite her with Romeo, her husband.

Pag.112 es.4

  1. Juliet finds a cup in her true love’s hands.
  2. Juliet tries to kill herself kissing Romeo.
  3. She discovers that Romeo’s lips are warm
  4. When she hears some noise, she stabs herself.

 

Pag.112 es.5

Love and death

 

Pag.112 es.6

  1. Death is a rival because it is amorous
  2. Death is terrible because it is linked to worms and to the chambermaids the body.
  3. Death is desirable because i twill kiss him to his beloved.

 

Pag.112 es.7

The imagery of remorse enhances the love-death motif.

 

Pag.112 es.8

  1. Yes, she is.
  2. No, she doesn’t.
  3. Beucause she hears noise.

 

Pag.112 es.9

What is the medium of Juliet’s and Romeo’s fate? Youth.

Pag.113 es.1

I think that Macbeth in the last monologue speaks about death.

 

 

Pag.113 es.2

  1. The women are crying beacause The Queen is dead.
  2. Macbeth has forgotten the taste of fear because his wife is dead.

 

Pag.113 es.3

The time,hereafter, tomorrow, a time, day, to the last syllable pf recorded time,

yesterdays, brief, hour, no more.

All these expressions underline the short duration of man's life.

 

Pag.113 es.4

He has realized that man has the illusion of being able to change his destiny but each step he takes in that direction simply confirms and consolidates the future established by fate.