Romeo and Juliet Flashcards
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Quotes for the character Mercutio
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para 1:
- ‘dreamers often lie’ ‘in bed asleep’ (romeo)
- ‘in no shape bigger than an agate stone’
- ‘she driveth o’er a soldier’s neck’
para 2:
- ‘romeo! humours! madman! passion! lover’ as a mockery
- rosaline’s ‘quivering thigh’
- ‘bawd’ to nurse
para 3:
- although romeo attempts to maintain peace, ‘o calm, dishonourable, vile submission’
- ‘tis not as deep as a well’
- ‘a plague on both your houses’
- ‘they have made worms meat out of me’
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Quotes for the character Tybalt
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para 1:
- ‘peace! i hate the word as i hate hell’ and ‘all montagues’
- ‘coward’ (to benvolio who wants a peaceful resolution)
para 2:
- ‘fetch me my rapier, boy’ (‘give me my long sword, ho!’ > capulet)
- ‘villain’ (about romeo)
- ‘scorn at our solemnity’
para 3:
- ‘thou consort’st with romeo’
- despite romeo’s attempt at peace ‘boy this shall not excuse the injuries’ (‘saucy boy’ > capulet)
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Quotes for the character Romeo
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para 1:
- ‘where shall we dine’
- ‘she hath dian’s wit’
- ‘she doth teach the torches to burn bright’
para 2:
- ‘my life were better ended by their hate’
- ‘love-devouring death do what he dare’ (wedding scene)
- ‘gentle mercutio, put thy rapier up’
para 3:
- ‘i am fortune’s fool’
- ‘juliet’s beauty hath made me effeminate’
- ‘is crimson in thy lips and in thy cheeks?’
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Quotes for the character Capulet
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para 1:
- ‘give me a long sword ho’
- ‘old montague flourishes his blade in spite of me’
- ‘my child is yet a stranger in this world’
- ‘my will to her consent is but a part’
para 2:
- ‘verona brags of him’ (romeo)
- ‘am i the master here or you’
para 3:
- ‘she will be ruled in all respects by me’ (promise to paris’
- ‘baggage’
- ‘my fingers itch’
- ‘oh brother montague’
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Quotes for the character of Juliet
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para 1:
- ‘my will to her consent is but a part’
- ‘thou wilt fall backwards when thou hast more wit’. she replied ‘ay’
- ‘no more deep will i endart mine eye than your consent gives strength to make it fly’
para 2:
- ‘my only love sprung from my only hate’
- ‘too rash, too unadvised, too sudden, too like the lightning’
- ‘goodnight, goodnight’ (re-enter juliet)
para 3:
- ‘she will be ruled in all respects by me’
- won’t be satisfied ‘till i behold him - dead’
- ‘what if it be a poison’ which the friar had given to kill her
- ‘o happy dagger!’
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Quotes for the character of The Nurse
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para 1:
- ‘what lamb, what ladybird’
- ‘thou wilt fall backwards when thou hast more wit
- ‘bawd’ (mercutio)
para 2:
- ‘is three long hours, yet she is not come’
- ‘i am weary give me awhile’
- ‘you are to blame my lord’
para 3:
- romeo ‘hath not so green, so quick, so fair an eye as paris’
- ‘leave me to myself tonight’
- ‘nurse! what should she do here’
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Quotes for the character Friar Laurence
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para 1:
- chides him ‘for doting, not for loving, pupil mine’ (rosaline)
- ‘to turn your households rancour to pure love’
- ‘they stumble that run fast’
para 2:
- ‘these violent delights have violent ends’ (wedding scene)
- ‘i do spy a kind of hope’
para 3:
- ‘i’ll dispose of thee among a sisterhood of holy nuns’
- ‘i dare no longer stay’ (leaves)
- ‘myself condemned’
8
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The theme of Women
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para 1:
- ‘thrust their maids to the wall’
- ‘a crutch, a crutch! why call you for a sword?’
- ‘Thou wilt fall backward when thou hast more wit’
para 2:
- ‘it’s an honour that I dream not of’
- ‘it is too rash, too unadvised, too sudden, too like the lightning’ (stuck on the balcony too’
para 3:
- ‘she will be ruled in all respects by me’
- ‘what if it be poison’ that the friar gave to kill her, such limited options
- ‘bagage’
- ‘i’ll dispose of thee among a sisterhood of holy nuns’
- such little autonomy that she can only dictate her life by taking it
9
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The theme of Violence
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para 1:
- ‘airy word’
- ‘down with the capulets down with the montagues’
- peace, i hate the word as i hate hell, all montagues and thee’ - tybalt
para 2:
- ‘fetch me my long sword, ho!’
- ‘fetch me my rapier boy!’
- ‘verona brags of him to be a virtuous and well-governed youth’
para 3:
- ‘gentle Romeo’
- ‘you’ve made worms meat of me’
- death of romeo and juliet, causes reconciliation and capulet and montague call each other ‘brother’
10
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The theme of Fate
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para 1:
- ‘death marked’
- ‘parent’s strife’
- ‘in shape no bigger than an agate stone’
para 2:
- ‘i am fortunes fool’
- ‘juliet’s beauty hath made me effeminate’
- ‘i defy you stars’
para 3:
- ‘my will to her consent is but a part’
- ‘she’ll be ruled in all respects by me’
- ‘hang, bed, starve, die in the streets’
- only way to take life into own hands, is by taking her life away
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The theme of Advice and Role Models
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para 1:
- ‘fetch me a long sword, ho!’
- ‘fetch me my rapier boy’
- ‘am i the master here or you’
para 2:
- ‘what lamb, what ladybird’
- ‘i am a-weary, give me leave awhile’
- ‘Nurse! What should she do here?’
para 3:
- ‘turn your households rancour to pure love’
- ‘i do spy a kind of hope’
- ‘i’ll dispose of thee among a sisterhood of holy nuns’
