Quotes Flashcards
Mercutio
Act 2 Scene 1
Commenting on Romeo’s lovesickness and rashness
‘Romeo! Humours! Madman! Passion! Lover!’
Juliet
Act 1 Scene 3
ambiguously turning down a marriage to Paris
‘an honour I dream not of’
Juliet
Act 1 Scene 5
Juliet laments that Romeo is a Montague
‘My only love sprung from my only hate’
Romeo
Act 2 Scene 4
Romeo explains Mercutio’s self-obsession to the Nurse
‘A gentleman, Nurse, that loves to hear himself talk’
Tybalt
Act 1 Scene 5
Tybalt sees killing Romeo as justified
‘Now by the stock an honour of my kin, to strike him dead I hold it not a sin’
Friar Lawrence
Act 2 Scene 3
Foreshadows the uncontrollable power of his potions
‘Poison hath residence and medicine power’
Act 1 Prologue
R+J’s fated romance
‘Death-marked love’
Capulet
Act 1 Scene 3
Juliet gives Capulet hope, seen as she is kind, but revealed later to just be as a child-bearer and wife.
‘the hopeful lady of my Earth’
Mercutio
Act 1 Scene 4
Suggests that Romeo’s lovesickness is a result of being idle
‘the children of an idle brain/begot of nothing but vain fantasy’
Juliet
Act 1 Scene 5
Religious imagery suggesting the holiness of R + J’s relationship
‘This holy shrine’
Romeo
Act 1 Scene 5
Religious imagery
‘My lips, two blushing pilgrims’
Romeo
Act 2 Scene 2
Metaphor suggesting Juliet is good, pure and holy
‘what light through yonder breaks? It is the east, and Juliet is the sun’
Juliet
Act 2 Scene 2
Laments who Romeo is
‘O Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo? Deny thy father and refuse thy name’
Juliet
Act 2 Scene 2
Questions why it matters that Romeo is a Montague
‘What’s in a name? That which we call a rose by any other word would smell as sweet’
Friar Lawrence
Act 2 Scene 3
Comments on the blurred lines of good and bad and their consequences; sets up his ‘undignified’ actions later in the play
‘Virtue itself turns vice, being misapplied,
And vice sometime by action dignified’
Mercutio
Act 2 Scene 4
Celebrates Romeo being able to have fun with him again; cured of lovesickness
‘Now art thou sociable, now art thou Romeo’
Nurse
Act 2 Scene 4
Admires Juliet; praises her to Romeo
‘my mistress is the sweetest Lady’
Nurse
Act 2 Scene 5
Teases Juliet; makes her wait for news of wedding
‘Jesu, what haste? Can you not stay awhile’
Romeo
Act 3 Scene 1
The hellish aura he takes on after Mercutio’s death at the hand of Tybalt
‘fire-eyed fury’
Romeo
Act 3 Scene 1
Comments on his bad luck/fate after killing Tybalt
‘O, I am fortune’s fool’
Mercutio
Act 3 Scene 1
Repeated as he is dying
‘a plague aboth your houses’
Juliet
Act 3 Scene 2
Ironic statement that Romeo is pure and good
‘Whiter than new snow off a raven’s back’
Juliet
Act 3 Scene 2
Oxymorons for Romeo
‘Beautiful tyrant’
‘Damned saint’
‘honourable villain’
Capulet
Act 3 Scene 4
Asserts that Juliet is governed by him; ironic as he doesn’t know about any of her affairs with Romeo
‘She will be ruled in all respects by me’
Juliet
Act 3 Scene 5
Ambiguous double meaning about Romeo and her reaction to Tybalt’s death
‘I never shall be satisfied With Romeo, till I behold him – dead – is my poor heart’
Capulet
Act 3 Scene 5
Shouts offensively at Juliet once she refuses to marry Paris
‘Hang thee, young baggage, disobedient wretch!’
‘green-sickness carrion’
Capulet
Act 3 Scene 5
Patriarchally stops Juliet from having a say
‘Speak not, reply not, do not answer me. My fingers itch’
Wants to be violent but resists