FOIL Examples - Romeo and Juliet
Storyboard Popis
Examples of Foil Characters in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet
Text z Príbehu
- Romeo
- CHARACTER
- Falls in love quickly
- Melancholy
- Hopeless romantic
- Mercutio
- FOIL
- Finds love humorus
- Does not fall in love
- Jovial
- Paris comes to pay respectful homage to Juliet, Romeo to visit his dead love and to join her in death by poison. When Paris starts to enter and then challenges Romeo as a felon, Romeo slays him in a fit of rage.
- Tybalt
- Serious
- Pessimistic
- Mercutio makes fun of Romeo for being romantic about love. He thinks love is less about devotion and more about physical pleasure. He is also a skeptic, mocking Romeo's beliefs in fairies and portents.
- Benvolio
- Sarcastic
- Optimistic
- Aggressor/Antagonistic
- Sticks up for Family
- Quick Tempered
- Capulet
- Montague
- Even Keeled
- Sticks up for Friends
- Passive/Peaceful
- Romeo comes upon the scene as Mercutio becomes heated in his words with the fiery Tybalt. Romeo steps between them and then tries to diffuse the tension by placing himself before Mercutio and by telling Tybalt that he has no argument against him.
- Juliet
- Daughter figure
- Young
- Calm
- Benvolio, whose name means "good-wisher" in Latin, has been the one to calm Romeo in an earlier act.
- Nurse
- Mother figure
- Old
- Excitable/Impatient
- Juliet remains loyal to her husband, while the Nurse cries out "Shame come to Romeo!" (3.2.91)
- Concise
- Patient
- "Well, sir; my mistress is the sweetest lady—Lord, Lord! when 'twas a little prating thing..."
- Meddling
- Babbling/Nonsensical
Bolo vytvorených viac ako 30 miliónov storyboardov