Death Flashcards
Even in a love scene, the threat of death is always present
‘The orchard walls are high and hard to climb, and the palace death, considering who though art’
The Montague men are like women (weak and in need of a leader), and Tybalt is metaphorically death
‘What, art thou drawn among these heartless hinds? Turn thee, Benvolio, look upon thy death’
Juliet personifying death
‘I’ll to my wedding bed, and death, not Romeo, take my maidenhead!’
Capulet about Juliet once she had died
‘Death lies on her like an untimely frost upon the sweetest flower of all the fields’
Romeo’s lips ratifying the deal with death (committing suicide)
‘The doors of breath, seal with a righteous kiss A dateless bargain to engrossing death!’
Romeo on how death shouldn’t of metaphorically eaten Juliet this quickly
‘Though detestable maw, thou womb of death, Gorg’d with the dearest morsel of the earth’
Death being mentioned in marriage
‘Do thou but close our hands with holy words, Then love- devouring death do what he dare’
