Quotations Flashcards
“What, drawn and talk of peace? iI hate the word, As i hate hell, all /montagues, and thee.”
Speaker: Tybaly
- develops Tybaly=t as an agressive character
- establishes the central conflict (Capulets vs. /montagues)
“Why then, Obrawling love, O loving hate, O any thing of nothing first create! O havy lightness, serious vanity, \Misshapen chaos of well-seeming forms, Feather of lead, bright smoke, cold fire, sick health, Still-waking sleep, that is not what it is!”
Speaker: Romeo
- use of oxymorons emphasizes the section to develop Romeo’s character as melodramatic and love sick but insinscre
” Earth hath swallow’d all my hopes but she; She’s the hopeful lady of my earth. But woo her, gentle Paris, get her heart,
My will to her consent is but a part; And she agreed, within her scope of choice Lies my consent and fair according voice.”
Speaker: Lord Capulet
- characterizes Lord Capulet as a loving father
“I fear to early, for my mind misgivesSome consequence yet hanging in the stars Shall biterly begin his fearful date With this night’s revels, and expire the term Of a despised life clos’d in my breast, By some vile frofiet of untimely death. But He that hath the steerage of my course Direct my sail! “
Speaker: Romeo
- emphasizes fate and fortune
“Content thee gentle coz, let him alone A’ bears him like a portly gentleman; And to say truth, Verona brags of him To be a virtuous and well-govern’d youth”
speaker: Lord Capulet
- emphasizes how others see Romeo
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“I will withdraw, but this intrusion shall, Now seeming sweet, convert to bitt’rest gall”
Speaker: Tybaly
- hints at what is to come in the plot
- characterizes Tybalt as obidiant
“My only love sprung from my only hate! Too early seen unknown, and known too late! Prodigious birth of love it is to me, ?Thta I must love a loather enemy”
Speaker: Juliet
- develops theme: it introduces the idea of forbidden love and conflict
- emphasizes love and fate and that they will ave their way
“I pray thee, good Mercutio, let’s retire: The day is hot, the Capels are abroad, And if we meet we shall not scape a brawl, For now, these hot days, is the mad blood stirring.”
Speaker: Benvolio
- uses pathetic fallacy by saying that the heat is amking everyone grumpy ad agitated
- foreshadows conflict
“Tybalt, the reason that I have to love thee Doth much excuse the appertaining rage To such a greeting. Villain am I none; Therefore farwell, I see thou knowest me not.”
Speaker: Romeo
- characterizes Romeo as peaceful
- drives the plot’s conflict
- uses dramatic irony
“thy Juliet is alive, For whose dear sake thou wast but lately dead: There art thou happy. Tybalt would kill thee, But thou slewest Tybalt: there art thou happy. The law that threaten’d death becomes thy friend, and Turns it to exile: there art thou happy.
Speaker: Friar /lawerence
- characterizs the friar as optimistic
- friar prevents Romeo from taking his life (drives plot) and forces him to see mercy.
O God, i have an ill-diving soul! Methinks i see thee now, thou art so low, As one dead in the bottom of a tomb. Either my eyesight fails, or thou look’st pale
Speaker: Juliet
-foreshadowing Romeo’s death bc. Juliet sees and predicts his death
Hang thee, young baggage, disobedient wretch! I tell thee what: get thee to church a’Thursday, Or never look at me in the face. Speak not, reply not, do not answer me!
Speaker: Lord Capulet
- drives plot and the idea of forbidden love because he doesnt know that juliet is married to romeo
- reveals capulets character bc. he becomes very aggressive and switches to the opposite of his character
I think it best you married with the county. O, he’s a lovely gentleman! Romeo’s a dishclout to him… I think you are happy in the second match, For it excels your first, or if it did not, Your first is dead.
Speaker: Nurse
- conflict- loses faith in the nurse bc. she fails Juliet in her time of need
Ancient damnation! O most wicked fiend!
Is it more sin to wish me thus forsworn, Or to dispraise my lord with that same tounge which she hath prais’d him above compares so many thousand times? go, consellor, thou and my bosom henceforth shall be twain. i’ll to the friar to know his remedy; if all else fail, myself have power to die.
Speaker: Juliet
- shows juliet has grown bc. she has taken her life into her own hands
- drives plot and foreshadows the idea of taking her life bc of love
if, rather than to marry county paris, thou hast the strength of will to slay thyself then it is likely tou wilt undertake a thing like death to chide away this shame
Speaker: Friar Lawerence
- impacts plot- if it didnt happen, juliet wouldnt have died
- friar devises a plan for juliet that is very problematic for juliet and friar acts as a guide for juliet
