Exploration, Analysis and Revision


SAMPLE 4 a. Name a character you disliked from a Shakespearean play that you have studied.


Title of play Name of character


'Romeo and Juliet' Lord Capulet


b. Explain why you disliked your chosen character. Use a key moment from the text to support your response.


The notes and photographs on pages 122 and 124 will help you answer this question.


I disliked the arrogant, domineering character of Lord Capulet, especially when he tried to force Juliet to marry Paris. He first showed his bad temper when Tybalt wanted Romeo thrown out of the party, snarling, ‘Am I the master here or you? go to.’


But he is worse when Juliet begs not to be married to Paris, a relative of the Prince. He talks savagely to her, as if he owns her, ‘and you be mine, I’ll give you to my friend.’ Basically he says, ‘if you don’t obey me, I’ll throw you out.’ Moving up in society is more important than his daughter’s happiness. He is so vicious he even threatens to hit her: ‘My fingers itch’. When she says, ‘I beseech you on my knees’, he snarls, ‘hang, beg, starve, die in the streets’. In the photographs I have seen of this moment on stage, Juliet is on the floor, begging for kindness from her father, who is leaning over her, his arm raised and his face twisted in anger.


He turns on the poor Nurse, calling her a ‘mumbling fool’. He is a foul-tempered, hard-hearted man. Sadly, he lives to regret his rough treatment of his gentle only child.


SAMPLE 5 a. Name your studied play and a character from your play who plays an important role.


Title of play Name of character


'Romeo and Juliet' Tybalt


b. Describe a key moment in the play where your named character plays an important role. Explain why his or her role at that moment is important.


The deadly fight scene happens one hot afternoon in the street in Verona. Tybalt, a cousin of Juliet, sees Mercutio and Benvolio. The usual insults start. Tybalt, who is looking for a fight because Romeo gate-crashed the masked ball, insults Romeo, not knowing that Romeo has married Juliet and no longer sees the Capulets as enemies.


Mercutio is furious when Romeo refuses to fight. He draws his sword, provoking Tybalt by shouting ‘rat-catcher’. As Romeo steps in to stop them, Tybalt, under Romeo’s arm, stabs Mercutio to death and runs away.


Tybalt’s role is important because he commits the first murder. When he comes back, Romeo, in ‘fire-eyed fury’ because of the cruel death of his friend, kills Tybalt.


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