Relevant Quotes Test - Acts 3-5 Flashcards
And all this day an unaccustom’d spirit
Lifts me above the ground with cheerful thoughts.
I dreamt my lady came and found me dead—
Strange dream, that gives a dead man leave to think!—
And breathed such life with kisses in my lips,
That I revived, and was an emperor.
Speaker: Romeo
Spoken to: Soliloquy
Circumstance: Romeo is in Mantua and he had a dream.
DP: Foreshadows Future Events (He sees Juliet again, Juliet will see Romeo dead)
DP: Dramatic Irony (so much of his dream will occur, and the audience is aware of this)
Is it even so? then I defy you, stars!
Thou know’st my lodging: get me ink and paper,
And hire post-horses; I will hence to-night.
5.1.24-26
Speaker: Romeo
Spoken to: Balthasar
Circumstance: Balthasar has just told Romeo that he has seen Juliet dead in the Capulet tomb.
DP: Dramatic Irony (Romeo doesn’t realize that he is doing the opposite of what he must do to defy fate)
DP: Theme of Fate (Romeo wishes to defy fate)
Unhappy fortune! by my brotherhood,
The letter was not nice but full of charge
Of dear import, and the neglecting it
May do much danger. Friar John, go hence;
Get me an iron crow, and bring it straight
Unto my cell.
5.2.17-22
Speaker: Friar Lawrence
Spoken to: Friar John
Circumstance: Friar John has just told Friar Lawrence that he has not mailed the important letters with news about the plan to Romeo.
DP: Increases Suspense
DP: Advances the Plot (Now that Friar is aware that the letters have not reached Romeo, he can take action towards solving the problem. Friar now has a plan including an iron crow)
In faith, I will. Let me peruse this face.
Mercutio’s kinsman, noble County Paris!
What said my man, when my betossed soul
Did not attend him as we rode? I think
He told me Paris should have married Juliet:
Said he not so? or did I dream it so?
Or am I mad, hearing him talk of Juliet,
To think it was so? O, give me thy hand,
One writ with me in sour misfortune’s book!
I’ll bury thee in a triumphant grave;
A grave? O no! a lantern, slaughter’d youth,
For here lies Juliet, and her beauty makes
This vault a feasting presence full of light.
Death, lie thou there, by a dead man interr’d.
5.3.74-87
Speaker: Romeo
Spoken to: Self or Paris
Circumstance: Romeo has just killed Paris as he thought Paris was going to violate Juliet’s tomb. Then, Romeo realizes he was wrong.
DP: Character Revelation/Development (Irrantional and emotions controling him to thinking more rationally and thinking of what his servant told him)
DP: Develops Pathos (for Paris as Romeo says that they both are both a part of “sour misfortune’s book” although Paris was innocent)
Capulet! Montague!
See, what a scourge is laid upon your hate,
That heaven finds means to kill your joys with love.
And I for winking at your discords too
Have lost a brace of kinsmen: all are punish’d.
5.3.291-295
Speaker: Prince
Spoken to: Capulet and Montague (other people were there?)
Circumstance: Capulet, Lady Capulet, Montague, Chief Watchman, and Friar Lawrence have just seen Romeo and Juliet dead for the first time
DP: Develops Pathos (for all who were victims of the grudge and hatred)
DP: Theme of Love and Hate
DP:Theme of Fate
And with this knife I’ll help it presently.
God join’d my heart and Romeo’s, thou our hands;
And ere this hand, by thee to Romeo seal’d,
Shall be the label to another deed,
Or my true heart with treacherous revolt
Turn to another, this shall slay them both:
4.1.54-59
Speaker: Juliet
Spoken to: Friar
Circumstance: Juliet would rather die than marry Paris.
DP: Increases Suspense (Will she kill herself if she has no choice?)
DP: Character Revelation (Juliet is being irrational and following her emotions very much)
Why, I am glad on’t; this is well: stand up:
This is as’t should be. Let me see the county;
Ay, marry, go, I say, and fetch him hither.
Now, afore God! this reverend holy friar,
Our whole city is much bound to him.
4.2.28
Speaker: Capulet
Spoken to: Juliet
Circumstance: Juliet lied to her father, Capulet, saying that she has changed her mind and is now happy to marry Paris
DP: Character Revelation (Capulet went from being very frustrated with Juliet to being very content with her. Of course, she did choose what he wished, but the shift in his emotions was so great even so)
DP: Dramatic Irony (Capulet does not know that Juliet is lying about her contentedness about marrying Paris and that she has a plan to get out of it)
JULIET: What if it be a poison, which the friar
Subtly hath minister’d to have me dead,
Lest in this marriage he should be dishonour’d,
Because he married me before to Romeo?
I fear it is: and yet, methinks, it should not,
For he hath still been tried a holy man.
How if, when I am laid into the tomb,
I wake before the time that Romeo
Come to redeem me? there’s a fearful point!
Shall I not, then, be stifled in the vault,
To whose foul mouth no healthsome air breathes in,
And there die strangled ere my Romeo comes?
Or, if I live, is it not very like,
The horrible conceit of death and night,
Together with the terror of the place,—
As in a vault, an ancient receptacle,
Where, for these many hundred years, the bones
Of all my buried ancestors are packed:
Where bloody Tybalt, yet but green in earth,
Lies festering in his shroud; where, as they say,
At some hours in the night spirits resort;—
Alack, alack, is it not like that I,
So early waking, what with loathsome smells,
And shrieks like mandrakes’ torn out of the earth,
That living mortals, hearing them, run mad:—
O, if I wake, shall I not be distraught,
Environed with all these hideous fears?
And madly play with my forefather’s joints?
And pluck the mangled Tybalt from his shroud?
And, in this rage, with some great kinsman’s bone,
As with a club, dash out my desperate brains?
O, look! methinks I see my cousin’s ghost
Seeking out Romeo, that did spit his body
Upon a rapier’s point: stay, Tybalt, stay!
Romeo, I come! this do I drink to thee.
4.3.24-58
Speaker: Juliet
Spoken to: Soliloquy
Circumstance: Friar has told Juliet to drink a potion that will make her appear dead for 2 days to avoid marrying Paris
DP: Character Revelation/ Development
DP: Advances the plot
DP: Increases Suspense (Juliet makes the audience fear everything that could go wrong)
Ready to go, but never to return.
O son! the night before thy wedding-day
Hath Death lain with thy wife. There she lies,
Flower as she was, deflowered by him.
Death is my son-in-law, Death is my heir;
My daughter he hath wedded: I will die,
And leave him all; life, living, all is Death’s.
4.5.34-40
Speaker: Capulet
Spoken to: Paris
Circumstance: On the day of Paris and Juliet’s wedding, Capulet, Paris, and Lady Capulet see Juliet dead.
DP: Develops Pathos (for Capulet and Pairs)
DP: Dramatic Irony (Audience knows that Juliet is not dead)
BENVOLIO: I pray thee, good Mercutio, let’s retire:
The day is hot, the Capulets abroad,
And, if we meet, we shall not scape a brawl;
For now, these hot days, is the mad blood stirring.
3.1.1-4
Speaker: Benvolio
Spoken to: Mercutio
Circumstance: Benvolio and Mercutio enter with other men
DP: Creates Suspense
DP: Foreshadows Future Events
ROMEO: Tybalt, the reason that I have to love thee
Doth much excuse the appertaining rage
To such a greeting: villain am I none;
Therefore farewell; I see thou know’st me not.
3.1.61-64
Speaker: Romeo
Spoken to: Tybalt
Circumstance: Tybalt is arguing with Mercutio and Benvolio, and when Romeo enters, Tybalt calls him a villain.
DP: Theme of Love and Hate (Romeo says that he must feel love for Tybalt despite the rage he would normally feel in response to such a greeting)
DP: Character Revelation/Development (Unlike Romeo’s previous ways, he is being rational when choosing not to bicker back with Tybalt)
MERCUTIO: Help me into some house, Benvolio,
Or I shall faint. A plague o’ both your houses!
They have made worms’ meat of me: I have it,
And soundly too: your houses!
3.1.104-107
Speaker: Mercutio
Spoken to: Romeo and Benvolio
Circumstance: Tybalt stabs Mercutio under Romeo’s outstretched arm. Then, Tybalt and other Capulets exit.
DP: Foreshadows Future Events (Foreshadows Mercutio’s death)
DP: Develops Pathos (for Mercutio)
JULIET: Come, gentle night, come, loving, black-brow’d night,
Give me my Romeo; and, when he shall die,
Take him and cut him out in little stars,
And he will make the face of heaven so fine
That all the world will be in love with night
And pay no worship to the garish sun.
O, I have bought the mansion of a love,
But not possess’d it, and, though I am sold,
Not yet enjoy’d: so tedious is this day
As is the night before some festival
To an impatient child that hath new robes
And may not wear them.
3.2.20-31
Speaker: Juliet
Spoken to: Soliloquy
Circumstance: Juliet cannot wait for the night to come so that she can be with Romeo
DP: Creates Dramatic Relief (Intense scene of fighting, Mercutio’s death, Tybalt’s death, and Romeo’s banishment)
DP: Defines Relationships Between Characters (Previously, Romeo had shown Juliet a lot more love than Juliet showed Romeo)
JULIET: O serpent heart, hid with a flowering face!
Did ever dragon keep so fair a cave?
Beautiful tyrant! fiend angelical!
Dove-feather’d raven! wolvish-ravening lamb!
Despised substance of divinest show!
Just opposite to what thou justly seem’st,
A damned saint, an honourable villain!
O nature, what hadst thou to do in hell,
When thou didst bower the spirit of a fiend
In moral paradise of such sweet flesh?
Was ever book containing such vile matter
So fairly bound? O that deceit should dwell
In such a gorgeous palace!
3.2.73-84
Speaker: Juliet
Spoken to: Nurse
Circumstance: The Nurse has just told Juliet that Romeo has killed Tybalt and he has been banished from Verona
DP: Theme of Appearance VS Reality (Juliet says that Romeo seems like a good person but is a “villain” and the opposite of what he seems)
DP: Character Revelation (Juliet was just so excited to see her beloved Romeo and now she is so frustrated with him, and believes that he is a liar)
Thou canst not speak of that thou dost not feel:
Wert thou as young as I, Juliet thy love,
An hour but married, Tybalt murdered,
Doting like me and like me banished,
Then mightst thou speak, then mightst thou
tear thy hair,
And fall upon the ground, as I do now,
Taking the measure of an unmade grave.
3.3.64-70
Speaker: Romeo
Spoken to: Friar Lawrence
Circumstance: Friar has just told Romeo that he will be banished from Verona.
DP: Character Revelation (Romeo is demonstrating his emotional character once again)
DP: Develops Pathos (He is in so much pain, he would rather die)
