R&J- Character/theme Points + Quotes Flashcards
ROMEO
changeable and naive - ‘love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs’ + ‘O brawling love, O loving hate’
passionate and loving- ‘it is the east and Juliet is the sun, arise fair sun and kill the envious moon’
headstrong and brave- ‘fire eye’d fury be my conduct now’
JULIET
obedient and sheltered- ‘it is an honour i dream not of’ + ‘you kiss by th’ book’
passionate but careful - ‘the god of my idolatry’+’too rash, too unadvised, too sudden’
decisive- ‘i drink to thee’
MERCUTIO
humorous but aware - ‘that dreamers often lie’
Honourable and loyal - ‘vile, dishonourable submission’ +’make haste’
NURSE
comical - ’fall backward’ AND speaks in blank verse which closely matches colloquial speech
Protective (mother figure)- ‘lead her into a fools paradise’
Catalyst - ‘i’ll find Romeo to comfort you’
FRIAR LAWRENCE
surrogate parent- formal language of rhyme
Wise but naive- ‘virtue turns itself to vice’
Catalyst- ‘rancor to pure love’
LORD CAPULET
Good father(at first) and protective - ‘let two more summers wither in her pride ere we may think her ripe to be a bride’
Angry and aggressive- ‘Hang thee, young baggage! Disobedient wretch’
Regretful of Js death- ‘death lies upon her like an untimely frost upon the sweetest flower of all the field’
HATE (theme)
‘What drawn and talk of peace? I hate the word as i hate hell all montagues and thee!’
‘My only love sprung from my only hate’
‘Romeo the love i bear thee can afford no better term than this thou art a villain’
‘See what scourge is laid upon your hate’
FATE (theme)
‘From forth the fatal loins of these two foes a pair of star cross’d lovers take their life’
‘Shake the yoke of inauspicious stars, from this world wearied flesh’
‘O i am fortunes fool’
DEATH (theme)
‘And the place death considering who thou art’
‘Death lies on her like a untimely frost upon the sweetest flower of all the field’
