Quotes Flashcards
Romeo (Act 1 Scene 4)
Love - negative
“Under love’s heavy burden do I sink”
Romeo (Act 2 Scene 2)
Romeo admiring Juliet
“It is the east, and Juliet is the sun / Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon” Sun is nice, sun and moon cannot co-exist
Romeo balcony scene (Act 2 Scene 2)
“With love’s light wings did I o’er-perch these walls”
Juliet about Paris (Act 3 Scene 5)
“He shall not make me there a joyful bride”
Juliet waiting for Romeo before hearing about Paris’ death (Act 3 Scene 2)
“Come, gentle night […] Give me my Romeo”
Lord Capulet upset Juliet won’t marry Paris (Act 3 Scene 5)
“Hang thee, disobedient wretch […] hang, beg, starve, die in the streets”
Lady Capulet siding with Capulet when Juliet refuses to marry Paris (Act 3 Scene 5)
“I would the fool were married to her grave!”
Romeo on fate after killing Tybalt (Act 3 Scene 1)
“O I am fortune’s fool!”
Fate using him for fun
Emphasised when Friar’s letter isn’t delivered
Mercutio after Romeo refuses to fight Tybalt (Act 3 Scene 1)
“O calm, dishonourable, vile submission!”
Benvolio trying to stop the fight between the families’ servants (Act 1 Scene 1)
“Part, fools! Put up your swords”
Tybalt declaring his hate for peace and Benvolio (thee)(Act 1 Scene 1)
“Peace! I hate the word / As I hate hell, all Montagues and thee”
Shows prejudice of hate, he hates all Montagues no matter what their individual qualities are and he hates Benvolio for associating with them
Friar Laurence on the effects of Romeo and Juliet’s marriage (Act 2 Scene 3)
“household’s rancour to pure love”
Didn’t overcome the intensity of the hate between the 2 families until their deaths
Nurse defending Juliet (Act 3 Scene 5)
“You are to blame, my lord, to rate her so.”
Prologue
“From forth the fatal loins of these two foes / A pair of star-crossed lovers take their life”
Alliteration emphasises ‘fatal’, it sounds like the word fate
Prince describing the start of the family feud (Act 1 Scene 1)
“Three civil brawls, bred of an airy word”
Romeo ironically suggesting for the first time that fate doesn’t decide everything (Act 5 Scene 1)
“Then I defy you, stars!”
Capulet calling for his sword to join in the fighting, but Lady Capulet says a crutch would be more suitable afterwards (Act 1 Scene 1)
“Give me my long sword, ho!”
Romeo worshipping Juliet, religious imagery, kiss (Act 1, Scene 5) and Romeo kissing Juliet before he suicides (hell). Follows her to death (Act 5 Scene 3)
“My lips, two blushing pilgrims, ready stand / To smooth that rough touch with a tender kiss”
“lips, O you / the doors of breath, seal a righteous kiss / A dateless bargain to engrossing death”
breath - essential to life
eternal agreement with death
lips in both quotes
Play ends how it started: “with a kiss, I die”
Romeo and Juliet sacrificed so families can be reconciled like Jesus
Romeo before he suicides (Act 5 Scene 3)
“shake the yoke of inauspicious stars”
yoke - plough that an ox pulls on farmland - he is stuck to it
inauspicious = unlucky
Prince, after the peace was established
“heaven finds means to kill your joys with love”
suggests that fate was written at start, but also suggests that the reason fate killed their children was because of the families’ hate for each other
joys = children
Romeo describing how interlinked love and hate is (Act 1 Scene 3)
“O brawling love! O loving hate!”
Loving one family results in hating another
Juliet describing how she unfortunate she is that she loves Romeo, a Montague (Act 1 Scene 5)
“My only love sprung from my only hate”
She is very sure she hates Montagues but we never learn why - shows how irrational hate is
Benvolio reassuring Romeo after he is lovesick about Rosaline saying that he will show him other women (Act 1 Scene 2)
Romeo sees Juliet and develops Benvolio’s metaphor
(Act 1 Scene 5)
“I will make thee think thy swan a crow”
Metaphor of birds and contrast between white and black
“So shows a snowy dove trooping with crows”
Dove - white and pure, peace - peace between families
Sonnet between Romeo and Juliet (Act 1 Scene 5)
Sonnets are usually a man declaring his love for a woman, but this time Juliet joins in for stanza 2, 3 and the rhyming couplet, shows doesn’t wait for Romeo but engages with him and shows that she finds him attractive
Juliet waits for Romeo for their wedding night (Act 3 Scene 2)
“bought the mansion of a love / But not yet possess’d it and though I am sold / Not yet enjoy’d”
They become each other’s property
Mercutio curses both families as he dies (Act 3 Scene 1)
“A plague o’ both your houses”
