Love Quotes Flashcards
Locks…
himself (in) an artificial night.
Lord Montague - Act 1 Scene 1
O brawling love,…
O loving hate
Romeo - Act 1 Scene 1
My only love…
sprung from my only hate.
Juliet - Act 1 Scene 5
Young men’s love…
then lies not truly in their hearts but in their eyes.
Friar Lawrence - Act 2 Scene 3
O swear not…
by the moon the inconstant moon.
Juliet - Act 2 Scene 2
My bounty is…
as boundless as the sea.
Juliet - Act 2 Scene 2
Main ideas about love:
1) Petrarchan love - hyperbolic attitudes towards love. Exposes the dangers of an intense and excessive love at an impressionable age.
2) Romeo and Juliet’s love is too fragile to exist in this world. Shakespeare comments on the immovable social laws which is mirrored in Romeo and Juliet’s relationship.
3) Young love is impulsive and consuming.
4) Fated love - Romeo and Juliet were supposed to be together from the outset (prologue).
5) complexities of parental love
love is ____
smoke
She doth teach…
the torches to burn bright
This holy shrine
…My lips, two blushing pilgrims
A pair of star crossed lovers…
take their life
It is too rash, too unadvised,too sudden…
too like the lightning
let two more summers wither in their pride…
until she is ripe to be a bride
Earth has swallowed all my hopes…
but she
