love Flashcards
theme
“did my heart love till now?” + “O she doth teach the torches to burn bright”
- disbeleif in RQ, ironic as he was in complete assurance of being in love with rosaline
- “torches” light imagery/ relieigou,s juliet is illuminating his life
quotes to show romeo speakin go fjuliet in act 1 scene 5
“did my heart love till now? + “O she doth teach the torches to burn bright”
“what’s in a name? that which we call a rose by another name would smell as sweet”
- “what’s in a name” = implying a name isn’t just an arbitrary label and doesn’t affect the natuer of romeo
- “rose” = symbolic of beauty and love
- illustrates juliet’s idealstici and romatnic view of love as it would cause scandal in her family
quote from juliet saying names aren’t important
“what’s in a name? that which we call a rose by another name would smell as sweet”
“wisley and slowly; they stumble that run fast”
- adverbs saying romeo should be careful and not rush into anything
quote to show friar lawrence wanting romeo to be slow
“wisley and slowly; they stumble that run fast”
“my child is yet a stranger in the world. she hath not seen the change of fourteen years”
- possessive “my” has a dual meaning
1. literally is his child
2. elizabethan times the woman belonged to their father until they married - capulet uses the metaphor of a “stranger” to describe his daughter = inexperienced
“my child is yet a stranger in the world. she hath not seen the change of fourteen years” how does this link to CONTEXT
- marriage was a tool to gain a higher social positions, capulet however cares about juliet
quote desrcibing capulet not wanting to marry of juleit yet as she is too young
“my child is yet a stranger in the world. she hath not seen the change of fourteen years”
“earth hath swallowed all my hopes but she/ she’s the hopeuld lady of my earth”
- capulet about juliet
- “hope” = juliet is his source of optimism
- capulet expressing his deep affection and pride in juliet
“you are a lover; borrow cupid’s wings and soar with them above a common bound”
“is love a tender thing? it is too rough, too rude, too boisterous, and it pricks like thorn” (1, 4 to ralsind, romeo)
- uncharaceteristic of romeo as he always loves love
-> romeo is deeply hurt by rosalind - asendetic listing creates tension which the climax the simile at the end meaning love is beauty and pain
- similar to juliets quote “too rash, too unadvised, too sudden, too like lightning”
quote romeo says about love in act 1 scene 4 about his love with rosaline
“is love a tender thing? it is too rough, too rude, too boisterous, and it pricks like thorn”
theme of unrequited love: (“o brawling love,”
- romeo uses oxymorons “O brawling love, O loving hate”
-> “brawl” as an adjetive shows fighting and oxymoron between love and brawling shows ocntrast between love, - foreshadows violence caused by th elove of them , there is a coexistence between love and hate
- romeo is an atypical elizabethan as he has a defeated tone about love which he shouldn’t care about
(here’s much to do with hate, but more with love” - romeo is a petrarchan lover
love and violence
- conflict doesn’t corrput their love but fuels it and makes it more powewrful , amalgamation of love and violence is what makes the drama a tragedy
love and violence quotes
- “civil blood makes civil hands unclean” = during the use of sonnet form shakespeare decribes death and feud with blood-filled imagery
- their marriage is described by friar as “violent delights”, oxymoron, adjective “violetn” echoes fightinh, verb “delight” juxtoposes this
- juliet says her “grave is like to be her wedding bed” - almost prophetic words that suggests her death is linked to her love
