2. Learning Objectives
We are learning to...
• Select quotes for analysis that show how
Shakespeare explores strong emotions from the
beginning of the play
• Analyse the language of characters
Skills for Life: Commitment to success and
Questioning
3. AO1: Write well with PEE+
AO2: discuss layers of meaning to
impact upon the audience
AO4: Comment on the time it
was written and how it links to
other books, plays etc.
4. An essay title:
Explore the ways that
Shakespeare presents strong
emotions between parent and
child in Romeo & Juliet and
Othello to interest the
audience.
5. Emotion Point Evidence Explanation of effect
Anger
Love
Threats
Insults
Hatred
I
Humour
6. Emotion Point Evidence Explanation of effect
We learn a great deal of ‘I hate the word / As I This would have been
Tybalt’s character when he hate hell, all Montagues, extremely shocking for
Hatred
enters and sees the and Thee the audience as they were
Montagues. religious people and
would imply that Tybalt’s
hatred is intense.
Love
Threats
In Act 1 Shakespeare ‘’A dog of that house...’ Here Sampson is
Insults introduces the audience to revealing his hatred of
the hatred of the two the Montague family by
families by the insults they referring to them as
use towards each other. ‘dogs’. This would have
been a derogatory
remark about fellow
citizens.
Anger
I
Humour
7. How does Shakespeare present strong emotions at the
beginning of the play?
Introduce your line of argument
P Point that is relevant to the
question.
A skilled 1. Put forward a simple answer to the question that deals
point will… generally with how the emotion is conveyed to the
audience.
eg. Shakespeare presents strong emotions by immediately
presenting Tybalt’s hatred in Act 1, scene 1.
An excellent 1. Pick out a specific aspect of the way the character is
presented
point will…
2. Identify the language used to create this presentation
eg. Shakespeare presents strong emotions by immediately
presenting Tybalt’s absolute hatred of the Montagues to the
audience in Act 1, scene 1 through the language he uses.
8. How does Shakespeare present strong emotions at the
beginning of the play?
Select a short quotation from
E Evidence the text that supports your
argument.
Skilled 1. Pick out a quotation from the text that acts as an
evidence example of the point you have made
will…
eg. ‘...and talk of peace? I hate the word/As I hate hell, all
Montagues, and thee.’
Excellent 1. Introduce the quotation to show the link to the
evidence point
will…
eg. The character of Tybalt is presented as someone full of
hatred, anger and implied violence, ‘...and talk of peace? I hate
the word/As I hate hell, all Montagues, and thee.’
9. How does Shakespeare present strong emotions at the
beginning of the play?
Directly analyse your
E Explanation quotation to demonstrate how
it supports your argument.
A skilled 1. Give an overview of why your quotation proves your
explanation point
will…
eg. This implies that Tybalt is angry and full of hatred.
An excellent 1. Put forward more than one idea – and those ideas
explanation will be increasingly original (not the obvious ones)
will… 2. Refer to specific words within the quotation and
explain their impact on the reader (connotations)
eg. This implies that Tybalt is totally consumed by his hatred of the
Montagues, his reference to ‘hell’ reinforces this and the audience will
understand from the very beginning of the play that he will not be persuaded
to forget the feud between the families.
10. How does Shakespeare present strong emotions at the
beginning of the play?
Link your analysis to other ideas and
Further
+
quotations from the rest of the book
or its social/ historical context to
explanation conclude your argument.
Skilled further 1. Link the explanation very briefly to another part of the text, but without reference to
the text
explanation
2. Comment very briefly on what was going on in the world when the book was written
will…
eg. The audience understand from The Prologue that the two lovers take their lives and
it is only with their deaths that the feud ends. And so are prepared for more violence
and tragedy.
Excellent further 1. Bring in short quotations from elsewhere in the book to show how the same idea is
explored in different places
explanation
2. Put forward original alternative interpretations of what ideas the character
will… represents
3. Explain in detail why the writer wrote in this way
eg. Here Shakespeare is foreshadowing the inevitable deaths of some characters as
Tybalt is unable to abate his hatred. The audience have already been told in the
Prologue that it is only with the deaths of Romeo and Juliet they will ,’bury their
parents’ strife’. When Tybalt draws the analogy to ‘hell’ to explain the extent of his
hatred of Montagues as, ‘I hate hell, all Montagues. And thee’, the audience would be
shocked by his absolute hatred, as an Elizabethan audience was highly religious.
11. An excellent PEE+ paragraph Topic
sentence
(Point)
Shakespeare prepares the audience from the very beginning of the play for
strong emotions through the characters and the language they use. For example
the character of Tybalt is revealed in Act 1, scene 1 through the language he uses.
Tybalt is presented as someone full of hatred, anger and violence:
Evidence
‘...and talk of peace? I hate the word
As I hate hell, all Montagues, and thee.’ Explanation
This implies that Tybalt is totally consumed by his hatred of the Montagues, and
from this statement the audience will understand from the very beginning of the
play that he will not be persuaded to forget the feud between the families. Here
Shakespeare is foreshadowing the inevitable deaths of characters as Tybalt is
unable to abate his hatred. The audience have already been told in the Prologue
that it is only with the deaths of Romeo and Juliet they will ,’bury their parents’
strife’. When Tybalt draws the analogy to ‘hell’ to explain the extent of his hatred
of Montagues as, ‘I hate hell, all Montagues. And thee’, the audience would be
shocked by his absolute hatred, as an Elizabethan audience was highly religious.
Explanation +
12. Similarly, the audience understands the anger of the Prince in Act 1 when he
attempts to stop the feuding. The audience would understand that the feud has
been destroying the peace and has done so for a very long time. In the Prince’s
speech Shakespeare uses powerful imagery to express strong emotions and
ensure that the audience are fully aware of the extent of the feud. The families are
described as ‘beasts’ and their fighting as ‘pernicious rage’. This imagery
develops the idea that the emotions of the families are out of control and that they
are behaving like animals. When The Prince refers to their ‘cankered hate’ we as
the audience are fully aware of how long this feud has been going on. We are
prepared for the Prince to remind the families that:
If ever you disturb our streets again,
Your lives shall pay the forfeit of the peace.
Shakespeare is foreshadowing the deaths of members of the families and
preparing the audience for the extreme emotions of hatred and violence to
continue.
13. Success Criteria
Skilled Writing 1. Identify and comment on the writers’ use
will of language to contribute to effect.
2. Identify and compare features of writers’
use of language with some explanation.
3. Commentary embeds appropriate
quotations to support main idea
Excellent 1. Have a detailed explanation, with
Writing appropriate terminology, of how language
and structure are used to present emotion
will
2. Comments begin to develop precise,
perceptive comparison of presentation of
strong emotion
3. Presentation of characters makes detailed
reference to the historical context
