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¶ … Romeo Juliet. Pick words define passage important passage. I uploaded information passage Romeo Juliet Act 2 Scene 2 lines 90-111. Perverse

"I'll frown and be perverse and say thee nay"

Juliet's use of this particular word is meant to emphasize the apparent confusion in this passage. It is obvious from the text's very first lines that Romeo's question has a rhetorical character, as he is well-acquainted with Juliet's love for him and simply wants the woman to acknowledge it once more with the purpose of fueling their passion and making it possible for them to come together without feeling any kind of remorse for this.

Juliet feels that even though Romeo's thinking is justified it is too much for her to stand by and watch as he actually...

By using the term 'perverse' Juliet is probably interested in criticizing society as a whole as a result of its tendency to keep people from putting across their true feelings. It is as if she would want to condemn the fact that people in general take on behaviors that they do not actually like simply in order for them to be accepted by the social order.
From Juliet's perspective, society has abandoned reason in order to embrace values generally believed to be important. However, she feels that it would be absurd for her to have to take on irrational attitudes just because the world expects this from her. She mainly wants Romeo to stop acting as if he were not capable of seeing her love for…

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