Relevant Quotes Test - Acts 1-2 Flashcards
Analyze this quote:
Yet tell me not, for I have heard it all.
Here’s much to do with hate, but more with love.
Why, then, O brawling love! O loving hate!
O anything, of nothing first create!
O heavy lightness! serious vanity!
Mis-shapen chaos of well-seeming forms!
Feather of lead, bright smoke, cold fire, sick health!
Still-waking sleep, that is not what it is!
This love feel I, that feel no love in this.
(1.1.171-179)
Speaker: Romeo
Spoken to: Benvolio
Circumstance: Romeo and Benvolio are walking together, and notice a quarrel between a Montague and a Capulet.
DP: Theme of Love and Hate
DP: Character Revelation
In herbs, plants, stones, and their true qualities:
For nought so vile that on the earth doth live
But to the earth some special good doth give,
Nor aught so good but strain’d from that fair use
Revolts from true birth, stumbling on abuse:
Virtue itself turns vice, being misapplied;
And vice sometimes by action dignified.
Within the infant rind of this small flower
Poison hath residence and medicine power:
For this, being smelt, with that part cheers each part;
Being tasted, slays all senses with the heart.
Two such opposed kings encamp them still
In man as well as herbs, grace and rude will;
And where the worser is predominant,
Full soon the canker death eats up that plant.
Speaker: Friar Lawrence
Spoken to: Soliloquy
Circumstance: Friar Lawrence walks enters the stage with a basket
DP: Character Revelation
DP: Foreshadows Future Events
Tis but thy name that is my enemy;
Thou art thyself, though not a Montague.
What’s Montague? it is nor hand, nor foot,
Nor arm, nor face, nor any other part
Belonging to a man. O, be some other name!
What’s in a name? that which we call a rose
By any other name would smell as sweet;
So Romeo would, were he not Romeo call’d,
Retain that dear perfection which he owes
Without that title. Romeo, doff thy name,
And for that name which is no part of thee
Take all myself.
Speaker: Juliet
Spoken to: Soliloquy
Circumstance: Juliet met Romeo that evening at the party, and is now on her balcony.
DP: Character Revelation
DP: Theme of Love and Hate
DP: Advances the Plot
These violent delights have violent ends
And in their triumph die, like fire and powder,
Which as they kiss consume: the sweetest honey
Is loathsome in his own deliciousness
And in the taste confounds the appetite:
Therefore love moderately; long love doth so;
Too swift arrives as tardy as too slow.
Speaker: Friar Lawrence
Spoken to: Romeo
Circumstance: Shortly prior to Romeo and Juliet’s wedding, Romeo tells Friar how strong and passionate his love for Juliet is
DP: Dramatic Irony
DP: Foreshadows Future Events
DP: Character Revelation
Thy propose marriage, send me word tomorrow,
By one that I’ll procure to come to thee,
Where and what time thou wilt perform the rite;
And all my fortunes at thy foot I’ll lay,
And follow thee my lord throughout the world.
(2.2.144-148)
Speaker: Juliet
Spoken to: Romeo
Circumstance: Romeo comes to visit Juliet after falling in love with her at the party. He proposes to Juliet.
DP: Character Revelation
DP: Advances the Plot
I will keep to myself:
but first let me tell ye, if ye should lead her into
a fool’ paradise, as they say, it were a very gross
kind of behavior, as they say: for the gentlewoman
is young; and, therefore, if you should deal double
with her, truly it were an ill thing to be offered
to any gentlewoman, and very weak dealing.
(2.4.157-163)
Speaker: Nurse
Spoken to: Romeo
Circumstance: The Nurse goes to Romeo to find out news about the time and location of the wedding.
DP: Character Revelation
DP: Defines Relationship Between Characters
And too soon marr’d are those so early made.
The earth hath swallow’d all my hopes but she,
She is the hopeful lady of my earth:
But woo her, gentle Paris, get her heart,
My will to her consent is but a part;
An she agree, within her scope of choice
Lies my consent and fair according voice.
This night I hold an old accustom’d feast,
Whereto I have invited many a guest,
Such as I love; and you, among the store
Speaker: Capulet
Spoken to: Paris
Circumstance: Paris asks Capulet for his blessing to marry his daughter, Juliet
DP: Character Revelation
DP:Define Relationship Between Characters
DP: Advances the Plot
I fear, too early: for my mind misgives
Some consequence yet hanging in the stars
Shall bitterly begin his fearful date
With this night’s revels and expire the term
Of a despised life closed in my breast
By some vile forfeit of untimely death.
But He, that hath the steerage of my course,
Direct my sail! On, lusty gentlemen.
(1.4.106-113)
Speaker: Romeo
Spoken to: Mercutio and Benvolio
Circumstance: Before going to the party held by the Capulets, Romeo has a strange feeling.
DP: Theme of Fate
DP: Dramatic Irony
Did my heart love till now? Forswear it, sight!
For I ne’er saw true beauty till this night.
(1.5.52-53)
Speaker: Romeo
Spoken to: Servant
Circumstance: At Capulet’s party, Juliet catches Romeo’s eye
DP: Advances the Plot (?)
DP: Situational Irony (?)
DP: Theme of Loss of Innocence
DP: Character Revelation
Patience perforce with wilful choler meeting
Makes my flesh tremble in their different greeting.
I will withdraw: but this intrusion shall
Now seeming sweet convert to bitter gall.
Speaker: Tybalt
Spoken to: Capulet
Circumstance: Tybalt notices that Romeo, a Montague, is present at the party. This enrages him, but Capulet tells Tybalt to endure Romeo.
DP: Character Revelation
DP: Creates Suspense
DP: Foreshadows Future Events
Go, ask his name. – If he be married,
My grave is like to be my wedding-bed.
Speaker: Juliet
Spoken to: The nurse
Circumstance: Juliet meets Romeo at the party that evening and falls in love with him.
DP: Dramatic Irony
DP: Loss of innocence
DP: Character Development
O Romeo, Romeo! wherefore art thou Romeo?
Deny thy father and refuse thy name;
Or, if thou wilt not, be but sworn my love,
And I’ll no longer be a Capulet.
(2.2.33-36)
Speaker: Juliet
Spoken to: Soliloquy
Circumstance: Juliet meets Romeo at the party that evening, and falls in love with him, but discovers that he is her and her family’s enemy.
DP: Character Revelation
DP: Theme of Love and Hate
