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english literature - ROMEO AND JULIET Flashcards

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ACT 1 SCENE 1:

  • PF! PUYS; YKNWYD (Benvolio + servants)
  • IWBMTAT, WIADTT, ITBI (servants + thumbs)
  • P! IHTW, AIHH, AM, AT. HAT,C! (Tybalt + peace)
  • IYEDOSA, YLSPTFOTP (Prince’s warning)
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Part, fool! Put up your swords; you know not what you do
I will bite my thumb at them, which is a disgrace to them, if they bear it
‘Peace! I hate the word, as I hate hell, all Montagues, and thee. Have at thee, coward!’
If you ever disturb our streets again, your lives shall pay the forfeit of the peace

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ACT 1 SCENE 4:

- IHASOL (Romeo + lamenting)

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I have a soul of lead

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ACT 1 SCENE 5:

  • MOLSFMOH (Juliet)
  • DMHLTN? (Romeo)
  • TBHV, SBAM. FMMR, B. WDTSCH. (Tybalt + violence at ball)
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My only love sprung from my only hate
Did my heart love till now?
‘This, by his voice, should be a Montague. Fetch me my rapier, boy. What dares the slave come hither.’

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ACT 2 SCENE 1-2:

  • BS, WLTYWB. IITEAJITS (east + sun)
  • TBOHCWSTS (cheeks + stars)
  • DTFARTN, OITWN, BBSOML, AINLBAC (name speech)
  • ITTBOLBH, TPM (marriage?)
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“But soft, what light through yonder window breaks. It is the east and Juliet is the sun”
The brightness of her cheeks will shame those stars
Deny thy father and refuse thy name, or if thou wilt not, be but sworn of my love, and i’ll no longer be a capulet
If that thy bent of love be honourable, thy purpose marriage

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ACT 2 SCENE 3:

- FTAMSHP, / TTYHRTPL (Friar’s intention)

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‘For this alliance may so happy prove, / To turn your households’ rancour to pure love.’

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ACT 3 SCENE 1:

  • IHTLT (why Romeo says no to Him VS Tybalt)
  • GC, WNITADAMO - BS (Romeo tries to please Tybalt)
  • TAAV (Tybalt says to insult Romeo)
  • OIAFF (idea of fate - Romeo)
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I have to love thee
Good capulet - which name I tender as dearly as my own - be satisfied
Thou art a villain
O I am fortune’s fool

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ACT 3 SCENE 2:

- BHCTTHLF (Juliet - last meeting to Romeo)

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‘Bid him come to take his last farewell’

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ACT 3 SCENE 3-4:

- HT, YB! DW (Father to Daughter)

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‘Hang thee, young baggage! disobedient wretch’

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ACT 4 SCENE 1:

  • MW (Paris addresses Juliet)
  • CWWM: PH, PC, PH (Juliet + no hope)
  • TFIMATHSI (Paris says to Juliet)
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My wife - PARIS CALLS JULIET THAT
Come weep with me: past hope, past cure, past help
Thy face is mine and thou hast slandered it - PARIS SAYS THAT TO HER

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ACT 4 SCENE 2:

- RTSODO (Juliet = sorry)

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Repent the sin of disobedient oppression

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ACT 4 SCENE 3:

  • F, GKWWSMA (Last meeting between lovers)
  • WIIBP, TTFHSMTHME, LITMHSBD (Juliet questions Friar)
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Farewell, God knows when we shall meet again
What if it be poison, that the friar hath subtly minister’d to have me dead, lest in this marriage he should be dishonour’d

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ACT 5 SCENE 1:

- NCBI, ISBW (Romeo = obsessive)

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‘Nothing can be ill, if she be well’

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ACT 5 SCENE 3:

  • DPFINA (Romeo says it. Juliet = not dead - dramatic irony)
  • WTPM, THATB (Romeo says to Paris)
  • STUT, VM! / CVBPFTD (Paris tries to stop Romeo)
  • NWASOMWTTOJAHR (Prince = sad story)
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‘death’s pale flag is not advanced’
Wilt thou provoke me, then have at thee boy!
Stop thy unhallowed toil, vile montague! / can vengeance be pursued further than death.
‘Never was a story of more woe than this of Juliet and her Romeo’

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ROMEO:

  • MCOW-SF! (oxymoron = fighting)
  • MSIALWAOH, EY, OI, ORBMWH (Mercutio’s dead speech)
  • GC - WNITADAMO - BS (satisfy Tybalt)
  • STYOISFTW-WF (fate idea + Romeo’s last words)
  • DMHLTN… FINSTBTTN (Romeo - firsts sees Juliet)
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‘Misshapen chaos of well-seeming forms!’
Mercutio’s soul is a little way above our heads, either you, or I or both must go with him
Good capulet - which name I tender as dearly as my own - be satisfied
‘Shake the yoke of inauspicious stars from this world-wearied flesh’. - LAST WORDS
‘Did my heart love till now… For I ne’er saw true beauty till this night’

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JULIET:

  • ILTL, ILLM (tried to be open to Paris)
  • TR, TU, TS (sees relationship as fast)
  • IHBTMOAL, BNPI (sexual maturity)
  • ILTD (wishes to die)
  • WIIBP, TTFHSMTHMD, LITMHSBD (questions Friar)
  • DTFARTN, OITWN, BBSOML, AINLBAC (name speech)
  • ITTBOL, BH, TPM (marriage?)
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I’ll look to like, if looking liking move
Too rash, too unadvis’d, too sudden
‘I have bought the mansion of a love, but not possess’d it’
I long to die
What if it be poison, that the friar hath subtly minister’d to have me dead, lest in this marriage he should be dishonour’d
Deny thy father and refuse thy name, or if thou wilt not, be but sworn of my love, and i’ll no longer be a capulet
If that thy bent of love be honourable, thy purpose marriage

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NURSE:

  • FJS, FHS, RAS (gives Romeo reason)
  • ITIBYMWTC (marry Paris?)
  • HYHTFLC, TSAHTMYAW (where to marry Romeo)
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For Juliet’s sake, for her sake, rise and stand
I think it’s best you marry with the county
‘hie you hence to Friar Laurence’s cell, there stays a husband to make you a wife’

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MERCUTIO:

  • ILBRWY, BRWL. PLFP, AYBLD (love = evil)
  • ICTBRBE… HFF, SL, AQT (Rosaline + sexual puns)
  • DVS (Tybalt VS Him)
  • AS (wound)
  • POBYH (well-known phrased)
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‘If love be rough with you, be rough with love. Prick love for pricking, and you beat love down’
‘I conjure thee by Rosaline’s bright eyes… her fine foot, straight leg, and quivering thigh’
‘dishonourable, vile submission’
A scratch = HIS WOUND
‘Plague o’ both your houses’

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BENVOLIO:

  • PF! PUYS, YKNWYD (servants + violence)
  • TYBALT = DTP (Romeo kills)
  • TYBALT HAD = CBTR (Romeo kills)
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‘Part fools! Put up your swords, you know not what you do’

He says Tybalt was ‘deaf to peace’ and that Tybalt ‘comes back to Romeo’

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TYBALT:

  • NBTSAHOMK, TSHD, IHINAS (honour + death to Romeo)
  • WDATOP! IHTW, AIHH, AM, AT (peace = evil)
  • TAAV (provoke Romeo)
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Now by the stock and honour of my kin, to strike him dead, I hold it not a sin
What drawn and talk of peace! I hate the word, as I hate hell, all Montagues, and thee
Thou art a villain

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FRIAR LAWRENCE:

  • YMLTLNTITH, BITE (men = lustful)
  • FTAMSHP, / TTYHRTPL (intention)
  • TTTV, BTIB, ATDLDTO (instructions)
  • R, TD, WHTTJ (summary)
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Young men’s love then lies not truly in their heart, but in their eyes
‘For this alliance may so happy prove, / To turn your households’ rancour to pure love.’
‘Take thou this vial, being then in bed, and this distilled liquor drink thou of’
‘Romeo, there dead, was husband to that Juliet’

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Power and danger of love:
Romeo’s love:
- SIRIB, OP, TWSD, WB, SWHS (Rosaline = nothing to lose)
- (said by Juliet) MTLIGTSAE, TICSUSOHOMW (love + wealth)
- ROMEO USES: - - - - - / - - - - - - - WHEN TALKING TO JULIET = - - - - - - - -

Friendship and family:
NURSE:
- LHIAFP (Juliet led on)
ROMEO:
- IHTLT (reason = relation)
LOVERS:
- AG = STRONG (feud = old)

Violent love:

  • VDHVE (oxymoron - death foreshadow)
  • OHD, TITS (Juliet’s last words)
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Power and danger of love:
Romeo’s love:
She is rich in beauty, only poor, that when she dies with beauty so will her store
(said by Juliet) My true love is grown to such an excess, that it cannot sum up sum of half of my wealth
ROMEO - USES FEWER SONNETS WHEN TALKING TO JULIET = MATURING

Friendship and family:
NURSE:
Lead her into a fool’s paradise
ROMEO:
I have to love thee
LOVERS:
Unable to talk to family as ‘ancient grudge’ is strong

Violent love:
Violent delights have violent ends
O happy dagger, this is thy sheath

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Violence, fate and gender:
Violence, conflict and suicide:
ROMEO:
- FJS, FHS, RAS (confidence to Romeo by Nurse)
- J, IWLWTT (Romeo death place)

JULIET:
- LMD (wishes to die)

Fate and destiny:

  • IHBM, MGILTBMWB (Juliet - death = grave)
  • MMMSCYHITSSBBHFD (fate + stars)
  • IHAIDS, MIST … DITBOAT (fate + death)
  • APOBYH (Mercutio’s last words)
  • FFTFLOT2F (Prologue - fate)
  • TFPOTDML (love = cursed + prologue)

Gender:
- D, IYBM (fight if you are a man)
- IWBMTAT, WIADTT, ITBI (servant’s insult)
- IWNBR (not himself - Romeo)
JULIET = ‘A’ ‘S’ ‘H’ (sematic field = light)

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Violence, fate and gender:
Violence, conflict and suicide:
ROMEO:
For Juliet’s sake, for her sake, rise and stand
Juliet, I will lie with thee to-night
JULIET:
Let me die

Fate and destiny:
If he be married, my grave is likely to be my wedding bed’.
‘My mind misgives some consequence yet hanging in the stars shall bitterly begin his fearful date’.
‘I have an ill-divining soul, methinks I see thee, now thou art so low, as one dead in the bottom of a tomb’.
‘A plague o’both your houses!’.
From forth the fatal loins of these 2 foes
The fearful passage of their death mark’d love

Gender:
Draw, if you be men
I will bite my thumb at them, which is a disgrace to them, if they bear it
I will never be Romeo 
JULIET = ‘angel’ ‘saint’ ‘heaven’
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WRITING TECHNIQUES:
Sonnets:
TYBALT - uses them when he talks about - - - - - - - -ROMEO - uses them - - - - to Juliet = - - - - - - - - + - - - - - - - -

Symbolism:

  • TDIH, CA = V, HH (Benvolio + hot day)
  • IHNCTHMFTS (night = protects Romeo)
  • MLAL: MDADOW (dark = sadness)
  • GS (exposed relation + no feud)
  • FNSVTOTEDLBTTESSGDG (everything = own purpose)

Dramatic irony + soliloquy:
- D… HHNP …. YICITLAITC (Juliet = not dead yet - irony)

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WRITING TECHNIQUES:
Sonnets:
TYBALT - uses them when he talks about violence
ROMEO - uses them less to Juliet = immature + romantic

Symbolism:
The day is hot, Capulets abroad = violence, hot headed
‘I have night’s cloak to hide me from their sight’ = protects their relationship
‘More light and light: more dark and dark our woes’ = exposes their relationship
Garnish sun = exposes their relationship
For nought so vile that on the earth doth live but to the earth some special good doth give’ = EVERYTHING HAS ITS OWN PURPOSE

Dramatic irony + soliloquy:
‘Death… hath had no power yet upon thy beauty … yet Is crimson in thy lips and in thy cheeks’ = SHE IS NOT DEAD YET - DRAMATIC IRONY

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