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ESSAY PLAN COMPARISONS:
SECTION 1 [ Male Dominance ] :
'In both Romeo & Juliet and Cousin Kate, male dominance is a key theme throughout both
plays/poem
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Male dominance is one of the main themes in cousin Kate, inference can be seen at '
He wore me' and 'He changed me' these quotes are similar to 'Lured' 'saw you' 'chose
you' 'cast me by' and ' he lifted' these words help to draw inference to subservient
and dominant as we can see the male in the poem is controlling the victims lives, it’s
the Lords choice and what he wants go's, this helps link back to the theme of male
dominance
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' this quote helps to influence the
thoughts on male dominance in the poem as Capulet is making a decision on Juliet's
life, something which will effect her whole life
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An she agreed within her
scope of choice, Lies my consent and fair according voice
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In both Romeo & Juliet and Cousin Kate, male dominance is a key theme throughout both
plays/poem
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Similarly in Romeo & Juliet
male dominance is from within Juliet's father as we can see in Act 1 Scene 2 'Let two more
summers wither in their pride, Ere we may think her ripe to be a bride
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This links with
Cousin Kate from the quote ' He lured me ' ' He wore me' and 'He changed me like a glove'
male dominance is portrayed throughout these quote as the persona was a victim to her
dominant male partner
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However male dominance can be seen in contrast compared to Romeo and Juliet and Cousin
Kate, as in Romeo & Juliet, the quote 'My will to her consent is but a part
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SECTION 2 [ Betrayal ] :
'In both Romeo & Juliet and Cousin Kate, Betrayal is portrayed in both aspects similarly to
each other, where the person the persona and Juliet thought was the most loyal person
turned out to be the not so loyal person and betrayed them both
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This helps to sculpt this whole idea of betrayal as it shows that he was
only using the persona, when the persona loved him, up until when he replaced her
with her Cousin Kate, this also helps to link in with bitterness and the spitefulness the
persona feels towards her Cousin Kate, as she got replaced with her own relative
making her feel even more hatred towards Kate as she is now seen as the outcast
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Oh, he’s a lovely gentleman
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where the Nurse is telling Juliet to marry Paris and forget about Romeo, This helps to
convey that even the Nurse, someone who Juliet thought would stick by her side,
turned her back on her
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In both Romeo & Juliet and Cousin Kate, Betrayal is portrayed in both aspects similarly to
each other, where the person the persona and Juliet thought was the most loyal person
turned out to be the not so loyal person and betrayed them both
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Oh,
he’s a lovely gentleman
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' In this quotation we can see that the
Nurse is dishonoring Juliet and siding with her parents, this shows betrayal, as Juliet thought
the Nurse would stick by her side and not go against her
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This helps to commend the idea of betrayal
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SECTION 3 [ Immaturity/Desperation ] :
'In both Romeo & Juliet and Cousin Kate, Immaturity and Desperation is another one of the
main themes, as both the persona and Juliet experience these
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For example she starts off with
Lady Kate and turns it into a bitter 'Cousin Kate' which helps to propose the fact that
the persona has a hatred and bitterness towards her cousin and is holding a grudge
upon her
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This helps to portray the immaturity from the persona
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This quote helps
to portray the spitefulness the persona feels towards her Cousin Kate
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In both Romeo & Juliet and Cousin Kate, Immaturity and Desperation is another one of the
main themes, as both the persona and Juliet experience these
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In addition it shows immaturity as the persona ends with '
my Cousin Kate' almost with a bitter hatred towards her cousin, which helps to indicate that
there's some unsolved business between the two relatives as the persona has this constant
grudge against her Cousin Kate
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In addition the fact that the persona refers to her cousin as
'Cousin Kate' and not just Kate helps to indicate a grudge the persona has for her
cousin, and it helps to symbolize the unsettled business between the two women,
hence the reason Christina Rossetti wrote this poem they way she did
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In Romeo & Juliet hatred, bitterness and spitefulness is displayed through the quote
'Tis but thy name that is my enemy
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' which
helps to express the hatred and spitefulness Juliet feels towards Romeos family name
'Montague' Juliet refers to Montague as the 'enemy' meaning she has bitterness
towards the name but yet not Romeo, this helps to testify the role of hatred and
bitterness in both pieces
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In addition the quote 'Cousin
Kate' helps to contribute to the role, of bitterness and hated
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Similarly in Romeo & Juliet, Hatred, Bitterness and spitefulness can been
seen when Juliet is talking about Montague and how that is her enemy, we can see this
through the quote 'Tis but thy name that is my enemy
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' This quote helps to announce the hatred Juliet feels towards Romeo's family
name

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