Due Tuesday Week 5 B

How is the audience positioned to consider the theme of love in Romeo and Juliet? Compare Mercutio, (1.4.96-103 & 2.4.72-75), Romeo (1.1.162-189 & 2.2.2-9 & 5.3.119-120) and Capulet’s (3.4.12-21) views on love, discussing what each of these male characters assumed about women.


Use full essay format (introduction, three body paragraphs, conclusion – all with TEEC paragraph structure) and evidence in the form of quotations. Ensure your thesis statement directly answers the question. Write your introduction and all three body paragraph topic sentences before writing the actual body paragraphs.

Example thesis:

“The audience is positioned to see the ‘reality’ of love (rather than a romanticised ideal or fantasy) through Mercutio, Romeo and Capulet’s differing views on the role of women and thus the importance of love.”