R+J Characters

Question 1

Romeo

Answer 1

Unrequited Love and Platonic Love:
“Out of her favour, where I am in love”
“Well in that hit you miss, she’ll not be hit with cupids arrow”
“This love I feel, I feel no love in this”
“Did my heart love till now?”
“For I ne’er saw true beauty till this night”
Inner Conflict:
“O brawling love, O loving hate”
“And so, good Capulet- which name i tender/as dearly as my own- be satisfied”
Fate:
“I fear to early for my mind miss gives/ some consequence yet hanging in the stars/ shall bitterly begin this fearful date”
“Then I defy you, stars!”

Question 2

Juliet

Answer 2

Inevitably of death:
“My grave is like to be my wedding bed”
Inner Conflict:
“My only love sprung from my only hate”
“Where for art thou Romeo”
Breaking Societal Norms:
“Young baggage, Disobedient Wretch”
“Shall I speak ill of him that is my husband?”

Question 3

Tybalt

Answer 3

Violence:
“Peace? I hate that word”
“Fetch me my rapier, boy”
Honour:
“Now by the name and honour of my kin, to strike him dead I hold it not a sin.”
“I hate all Montagues”

Question 4

The Nurse

Answer 4

Parental Love:
“Thou wast the prettiest babe e’er I nursed”
“O, lamentable day”
“For Juliet’s sake, for her sake, rise and stand”
“She’s not fourteen”
Bawdy:
“go girl seek happy nights to happy days”
“By my maiden head, at twelve year old”
Catalyst for Downfalls:
“to fetch a ladder by which your love must climb a birds nest soon when it is dark”
“I think it best you married with the County/O, he’s a lovely gentleman!”