Romeo and Juliet Flashcards
What quote in Act 1 Scene 3 shows that Lady Capulet was married young?
‘I was your mother much upon these years, That you are now a maid’
What quote in Act 1 Scene 3 shows that Lady Capulet does not have as a strong bond with Juliet like the Nurse does?
‘Nurse, come back again…Thou know’st my daughter’s of a pretty age’
What quote in Act 1 Scene 1 shows that ALL members of the Capulet household, from servants to nobility, feel that the feud is really important to them?
‘The quarrel is between our masters and us their men.’
Which quote in Act 1 Scene 1 is evidence of how the servants use a simple hand gesture to provoke the fight?
‘Do you bite your thumb at us, sir?’
What four things does Tybalt hate?
‘peace! I hate the word, as I hate hell, all Montagues, and thee’
Provide the quote that shows Lord Capulet wants to be part of the fight in Act 1 Scene 1
‘Give me my long sword, ho!’
Provide the quote that shows Lord Montague wants to be part of the fight in Act 1 Scene 1
‘Hold me not, let me go’
Prologue - love is created by fate
“star-cross’d lovers”
Prologue - Their love is tainted with death
“death-mark’d love”
Juliet thinks that their love is going too quickly and dramatic irony as it foreshadows thier death
“too rash, too unadvised, too sudden;
Too like the lightning”
Speaker: Juliet
Context: Juliet is responding to her mother’s question of ‘will you marry?’
Meaning: Marriage is not something Juliet has thought of.
“It is an honor that I dream not of.”
Speaker: Lady Capulet
Context: Lady Capulet is trying to explain why Juliet should marry Paris
Meaning: Paris is like a book and Juliet will be the cover that holds it together.
“This precious book of love, the unbound lover, to beautify him only lacks a cover”
Speaker: Narrator
Context: Explaining the events of what came before Romeo and Juliet’s death
Meaning: The two households, the Montague’s and the Capulet’s, are in feud that makes them fight and shed civilian blood.
“From ancient grudge break to new mutiny, where civil blood makes civil hands unclean”
Speaker: Narrator
Context: Explaining what caused Romeo and Juliet’s deaths
Meaning: Because of all the fighting, a Montague (Romeo) and a Capulet (Juliet) who are lovers, take control of their lives.
“From forth the fatal loins of these two foes a pair of star- crossed lovers take there life”
Speaker: Juliet
Context: Juliet is trying to explain to her mother in the simplest way possible that she doesn’t want to be involved in the relationship
Meaning: She wants to be an obedient daughter to her mother, but in a way that she never mentions love.
“I’ll look to like if looking liking move: But no more will I endart mine eye than your consent gives strength to make it fly”
Speaker: Romeo
Context: Romeo is trying to tell Juliet how beautiful she is
Meaning: Juliet is so beautiful and bright that she fills up the window in the same way that the sun fills up the earth with its light.
“What light through yonder window breaks? It is the east and Juliet is the sun”
Speaker: Juliet
Context: Juliet is on the balcony and wants Romeo to give up his name as a Montague
Meaning: Juliet doesn’t know why Romeo has to be a Montague, instead of a Capulet.
“Deny thy father and refuse thy name”
Speaker: Juliet
Context: Romeo has just spoken to Juliet and it’s dark outside so she can’t see him.
Meaning: Juliet knows who is talking to her but she thinks she remember’s his voice. This proves how little Romeo and Juliet have spoken to each other and they haven’t even spoken 100 words to each other.
“My ears have not yet drunk a hundred words of that tongue’s utterance, yet I know the sound”
Speaker: Mercutio
Context: What he says when he gets stabbed by Tybalt
Meaning: Both houses will have something bad happen to them.
“A plague o’ both your houses!”
Speaker: Romeo
Context: After Romeo kills Tybalt, Romeo is deciding what to think of it
Meaning: Romeo is bound for bad things and has a “doom” prophecy.
“O, I am fortune’s fool!”
Speaker: Romeo
Context: Romeo knows what to do to in order to end the situation
Meaning: Romeo takes drugs to kill himself.
“Thy drugs are quick. Thus, with a kiss I die.”
Speaker: Juliet
Context: Juliet decides that she will kill herself
Meaning: Her body (the sheath) will cover Romeo (the dagger).
“O happy dagger! This is thy sheath; there rust, and let me die.”
friar lawrence
These violent delights have violent ends, And in their triumph die like fire and powder, Which as they kiss consume
