Romeo And Juliet Flashcards
Act 1 feuds/violence (11)
Prologue:
Chorus “from ancient grudge to new mutiny” + “civil blood makes civil hands unclean.” + “Doth with their death bury their parents strife.”
Scene 1:
Sampson “I will bite my thumb at them,”
Benvolio “Put up your swords, you know not what you do,” + “I do but keep the peace”
Tybalt “As I hate hell, all montagues, and thee,”
Prince “neighbour stained steel” + “three civil brawls, bred of an airy word”
Benvolio “fiery tybalt”
Scene 5:
Juliet “my only love sprung form my only hate”
Act 1 fate/stars (6)
Prologue:
Chorus “star-crossed lovers”
Scene 1:
Prince “your lives shall pay the forfeit of the peace.”
Montagues “And makes himself an artificial night,”
Scene 2:
Romeo “mine own fortune in my misery”
Scene 4:
Romeo “By some forfeit of untimely death.”
Scene 5:
Chorus “Now old desire doth in his death-bed lie,”
Act 1 relationships/gender roles (7)
Scene 1:
Sampson “Therefore women being the weaker vessels” + “the heads of the maids, or their maidenheads”
Scene 2:
Paris “younger than she are happy mothers made”
Capulet “Earth hath swallowed all my hopes but she” + “my will to her consent is but a part”
Scene 3:
Nurse “what lamb! What ladybird”
Juliet “it is an honour that I dreamt not of” marriage
Act 1 love/death (6)
Scene 1:
Romeo “Alas that love whose view is muffled still” - Cupid wears a blindfold + “feather of lead” + “still-waking sleep” contrasting feelings of love
Scene 4:
Mercutio “If love be rough with you be rough with love” + “through lovers’ brains and then they dream of love”
Scene 5
Romeo “For I never saw true beauty till this night”
Juliet “my grave is like to be my wedding bed”
Act 2 fate/stars (4)
Scene 2:
Romeo “kill the envious moon” + “the brightness of her cheek would shame those stars”
Juliet “th’inconstant moon” + “too like the lightning which doth cease to be”
Act 2 feud/violence (5)
Scene 1:
Juliet “wherefore art thou Romeo?” Why is your name Romeo
Romeo “I have night’s cloak to hide me from their eyes”
Scene 3:
Friar “to turn your household’s rancour to pure love”
Scene 4:
Mercutio “Prince of cats” Tybalt
Scene 6:
Friar “these violent delights have violent ends”
Act 2 love/death (5)
Scene 1:
Juliet “swear by thy gracious self” godly imagery + “no further than a wanton’s bird” + “like a poor prisoner in his twisted gyves”
Scene 3:
Friar “the Earth that’s nature’s mother is her tomb”
“Poison hath residence and medicine power”
Act 2 relationships/gender roles (4)
Scene 3:
Friar “young men’s love their lies not truly in their hearts but in their eyes”
“women may fall when there’s no strength in men”
Scene 4:
Romeo “loves to hear himself talk and will speak more in a minute than he will stand to in a month”
SD “Juliet returns his kiss”
Act 3 feud/violence (5)
Scene 1:
Benvolio “here all eyes gaze on us”
Tybalt “though art a villain” (to Romeo)
Romeo “good Capulet which name I tender as
dearly as mine own” (to Tybalt)
Mercutio “I was hurt under your arm” (to Romeo)
Prince “my blood for your rude brawls doth lie a-bleeding”
Act 3 relationships/gender roles (8)
Scene 1:
Mercutio “I will not budge for no man’s pleasure” + “you will find me a grave”
Romeo “thy beauty hath made me effeminate”
Scene 3:
Friar “tears are womanish”
Scene 4:
Capulet “she shall be married to a noble Earl”
Scene 5:
Capulet “you green-sickness carrion” + “young baggage” + “disobedient wretch”
Act 3 love/death (3)
Scene 2:
Juliet “beautiful tyrant, fiend angelical” (her feeling for Romeo) + “but I, a maid, die maid widowed”
Scene 3:
Romeo “more courtship lies in carrion flies than Romeo” (he’s banished so he can’t see Juliet)
Act 3 fate/stars (6)
Scene 1:
Mercutio “A plague a’both houses”
Romeo “This day’s black fate on moe days doth depend” + “O, I am fortune’s fool”
Scene 2:
Juliet “come night come Romeo”
Scene 3:
Romeo “banishment be merciful say death”
Scene 5:
LC “I would the fool were married to her grave” (to Juliet for not marrying Paris)
Act 4 love/death (3)
Scene 1:
Juliet “To live an unstain’d wife to my sweet love”
Scene 3:
Juliet “I drink to thee”
Scene 5:
“Flower as she was, deflowered by him” (personified death)
Act 4 relationships/gender roles (4)
Scene 2:
Juliet “hence forward I am ever rul’d by you” (to Capulet)
Scene 5:
LC “my child, my only life”
Capulet “And with my child my joys are buried”
Friar “You love your child so I’ll that you run mad seeing that she is well”
Act 5 fate/stars (6)
Scene 1:
Romeo “I dreamt my lady came and found me dead” + “I defy you stars”
Apoc “My poverty but not my will consents” (to selling Romeo poison)
Scene 2:
Friar “unhappy fortune”
Scene 3:
Romeo “shake the yoke of inauspicious stars from this world-weary flesh”
Prince “The sun of sorrow will not show his head”
Act 5 love/death
Scene 1:
Romeo “and if a man did need poison…” (Romeo contemplates on his death during exile) + “cordial not poison”
Scene 3:
Paris “thy canopy is dust and stones” + “grief it is supposed the fair creature died”
Romeo “her beauty makes this vault a feasting presence full of light”
Act 5 feud/violence (4)
Scene 3:
Paris “can vengeance be purs’d further than death”
Romeo “I love thee better than myself” (to Paris)
“Forgive me cousin” (to dead Tybalt)
Prince “that heaven finds means to kill your joys with love”
