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It is important for the understanding of any setwork to come to grips with the leading characters. Who are
they? What do we know of their personalities? What part do they play in the action? Does each have
any important foibles?
INSTRUCTIONS:
In writing your paragraphs, take care to do each of the following:
- Write separate paragraphs for each character;
- Take note that there are FIVE marks per question, so you need to write at least FIVE points on each
character;
- Write in full sentences, and in paragraph format;
- Do NOT write a list, or in bulleted points;
- Head your work properly, with your name and date, etc.
Remember too that this is a CHARACTER SKETCH.
Have you looked at the questions
in the right column?
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TEST YOURSELF!
Read the left column and then answer
the following questions:
Write well-formed paragraphs providing a character sketch of each of the following characters:
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- He was friend and cousin to Benvolio;
- He was also friend (and cousin?) with Mercutio;
- He has a servant called Balthazar;
- He thinks he's in love with Rosaline, but is only infatuated;
- He's a passionate and poetic person;
- He is not interested in joining the family feud;
- He foreshadows some of Shakespeare's greatest characters.
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- Set to marry Paris but does not want to;
- Birthday on Lamastide (the night of her wedding);
- Very young (about fourteen!)
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- The nurse was humorous but with a lewd sense of humour;
- Always looked on the "base" side of life;
- Acts as a "mother" to Juliet;
- Was a wet nurse to her, i.e. she breastfed Juliet.
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- Benvolio was nephew to Montague;
- Friends to Romeo and Mercutio;
- A quiet and cautious person;
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- Tybalt was nephew to Lady Capulet, making him Juliet's cousin;
- Fiery temperament and liked to fight;
- Hated the Montagues with a passion.
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