Fate Flashcards
Romeo A3.1
O, I am fortune’s fool!’ “I defy you stars.
Juliet about Romeo, foreshadowing death A3.5
Methinks I see thee, now thou art below, As one dead in the bottom of a tomb.
Friar Lawrence about letter not being delivered
“Unhappy fortune!”
Tybalth to Capulet about Montagues who have gatecrashed party
I will withdraw, but this intrusion shall/Now seeming sweet, convert to bitterest gall”
Prologue
lines 5-6
A pair of star-crossed lovers take their life
Juliet linking her marriage to her death
“Go ask his name: if he be married,
My grave is like to be my wedding bed.”
Friar Lawrence blaming fate for their plans going wrong
A5.3
“A greater power than we can contradict
Hath thwarted our intents.”
Romeo Before he goes to the masque where he will meet Juliet, has a feeling that the consequences of his decision to go will be “bitter.”
Some consequence, yet hanging in the stars,
Shall bitterly begin