BP Exercise

Below are quotes from both the primary and the secondary source. If you can match the primary source to the secondary source, they will provide a good resource for writing your body paragraphs:

"O happy dagger! This is thy sheath; there rust, and let me die." (5.3.170)

"Lady Capulet's reluctance to discuss intimate matters of sex and marriage with her virgin daughter without the moral support of the Nurse suggests the strained relationship between mother and child, a relationship foiled by the warm, convivial rapport between Juliet and the earthy Nurse. "

"Understandably, therefore, Romeo hesitates to subject his ecstatic, private passion for Juliet to the ribald locker-room jests of his cynical sidekick Mercutio or even to the remonstrations of the more sympathetic but still skeptical Benvolio."

"... her total isolation symbolized by the hermetically sealed tomb in which, abandoned and alone, the adolescent girl takes her life."

"I neither know it nor can learn of him." (1.1.125-135)

"This is the matter:--Nurse, give leave awhile,

We must talk in secret:--nurse, come back again;

I have remember'd me, (2.3.9-10)

"He jests at scars that never felt a wound." (2.2.1)

"A similar lack of communication typifies Romeo's relationship with his anxious father, who must seek out Romeo's friend Benvolio to inquire about Romeo's bizarre behavior."