Romeo And Juliet Flashcards
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Romeo: unrequited love
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- 1 Ah me, sad hours seem long
- 1 O brawling love, O loving hate
- 1 Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs
- 1 I have lost myself… This is not Romeo
- 4 Under love’s heavy burden do I sink
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Romeo: Fate
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- 4 Some consequences yet hanging in the stars,… some vile forfeit of untimely death
- 4 But he that hath the steerage of course Direct my sail !
- 1 O I am fortune’s fool
- 1 Then I defy you stars
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Romeo: love for Juliet
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- 5 Did my heart love till now? I never saw true beauty till this night
- 5 O she doth teach the torches to burn bright !
- 2 It is the East, and Juliet is the sun
- 2 The brightness of those cheeks would shame those stars
- 2 Bright angel
- 2 With love’s light wings did i o’erperch these walls
- 6 Love devouring death do what he dare, it is enough I may but call her mine
- 3 Her beauty makes this vault a feasting presence full of light
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Romeo: facing conflict
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- 1 I do protest I never injured thee, but over thee better than canst devise
- 1 Villain am I none
- 1 Gentle Mercutio, put thy rapier away
- 1 O sweet Juliet, thy beauty hath made me effeminate
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Juliet: relationship with family and nurse
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- 3 Madam, I am here
- 5 Sweet, sweet, sweet nurse
- 5 Proud can I never be of what I hate !
- 2 [to Capulet] Henceforward I am ever ruled by you
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Juliet: Love for Romeo
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- 5 You kiss by the book
- 2 All my fortunes at thy foot I’ll lay, and follow thee my lord throughout the world
- 2 My bounty is as boundless as the sea, my love is deep
- 2 I have bought the mansion of love but not possessed it
- 2 An impatient child who hath new robes but may not wear them
- 5 Yond light is not daylight; it is some meter that the sun exhaled to light on the way to Mantua
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Juliet: practical attitude to love
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- 3 I’ll look to like, if looking liking move
- 2 How cam’st thou hither ?
- 2 Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art though Romeo ?
- 2 O swear not by the moon, the inconsistent moon
- 2 It is too rash, too unadvised , too sudden, too like… lightning
- 2 This bud of love… May prove beauteous flower when next we meet
- 3 Go get thee hence, for I will not away
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Juliet: love/hate/death
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- 5 If he be married, My grave is like to be my wedding bed
- 5 My only love sprung from my only hate
- 2 O serpent heart, hoof with a flowering face !
- 2 Damned saint, honourable villain !
- 1 [to Friar Lawrence] Bid me leap, rather than marry Paris, from battlements of any tower
- 3 O happy dagger
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Benvolio
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- 1 Part fools! Put up your swords, you know not what you do
- 1 I do but keep the peace. Put up thy sword or manage it to part these men with me
- 3 Examine other beauties
- 3 Compare her face with some that is hall show, and i will make thee think thy swan a crow
- 1 I pray thee good Mercutio, let’s retire… these hot days is mad blood stirring
- 1 Withdraw to some private place… or coldly of your grievances
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Tybalt
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- 1 Turn thee, Benvolio, look upon thy death
- 1 Peace? I hate the word, As I hate hell all Montagues and thee
- 5 Now by the stock and my honour of my kin to strike him dead i hold it not a sin
- 5 This intrusion, now seeming sweet, will convert to bitter gall
- 1 Gentlemen, good den, a word with one of you
- 1 Thou art a villain
- 1 [Benvolio] Furious Tybalt
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Capulet
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- 1 Give me my long sword, ho!
- 2 My child is yet a stranger in this world
- 2 She’s the hopeful lady of my earth
- 2 Within her scope of choice lies my consent
- 2 And too soon marred are those too early made
- 5 Be patient, take not note of him
- 5 Am I the master here, or you?
- 4 And I think she will be ruled in all respects by me
- 4 Wife, go you…
- 5 Hang thee, young baggage, disobedient wretch!
- 5 My fingers itch
- 5 Hang, beg, starve, die in the streets
- 3 O brother Montague, give me thy hand
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Lady Capulet
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- 3 Nurse, give leave a while… Nurse come back again
- 3 I was your mother much upon these years
- 3 Read O’Brien the volume of young Paris’ face,and fins delight writ there with beauty’s pen
- 3 So shall you share all that he doth possess
- 5 I would the fool were married to her grave
- 5 Talk not to me, for I’ll not speak a word. Do what thou wilt, for I have done with thee
- 2 Not till Thursday, there is time enough
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Nurse
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- 3 What, lamb! What ladybird!
- 3 women grow bigger by men
- 5 Though his face be better than any mans
- 5 You shall bear the burden soon at night
- 5 I think it best you married with the County. Oh, he’s a lovely gentleman. Romeo’s a dishclout to him
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Friar Lawrence
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- 3 That’s my good son
- 3 Young men’s love then lies not truly in their hearts but in their eyes
- 3 This alliance may so happy prove to turn your household’s rancour to pure love
- 3 Wisely and slow, they stumble that run fast
- 6 These violent delights have violent ends
- 3 Art thou a man? Thy tears are womanish
- 3 There, art thou happy… there art thou happy… there art thou happy?
- 3 I dare no longer stay
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Mercutio
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- 4 If you are a lover, borrow Cupid’s wings
- 4 If love be rough with you, be rough with love
- 4 Dreamers often lie
- 4 Now art thou sociable, now art thou Romeo
- 1 Ask for me tomorrow and you shall find me a grave man
- 1 A plague a’both your houses!
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Prince
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- 1 If ever you shall disturb our streets again, your lives shall pay the forfeit of the peace
- 3 What a scourge is laid upon your hate that heavens finds a means to kill your joys with love!
- 3 All are punish’d
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Paris
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- 3 Younger than her happy mothers made
- 5 My lord, I would that Thursday were tomorrow
- 1 Happily met, my lady and my wife!
- 1 Thy face is mine
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Depressed/confused about love
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- 2 ROMEO ‘Under love’s heavy burden do I sink’
- 5 JULIET ‘My only love sprung from my only hate!’
- 2 JULIET ‘O serpent heart, hid with a flowering face!’
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Romantic love
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- 2 ROMEO ‘With love’s light wings did i o’erperch these walls’
- 2 JULIET ‘My bounty is as boundless as the sea, my love as deep
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Practical love
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- 3 LADY CAPULET ‘So you shall share all that he doth possess’
- 4 MERCUTIO ‘If love be rough with you, be rough with love
- 2 JULIET ‘O swear not by the moon, the inconsistent moon’
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Possessive love
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- 6 ROMEO ‘Love devouring death do what he dare, it is enough I may but call her mine’
- 2 JULIET ‘I have a mansion of love but have not yet possessed it’
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Agression and violence (conflict)
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- 1 PROLOGUE ‘From ancient grudge break to new mutiny’
- 1 TYBALT ‘Peace? I hate the word, as i hate hell all Montagues, and thee’
- 5 TYBALT ‘Now by the stock and honour of my kin to strike him dead I hold it not a sin’
- 1 TYBALT ‘Boy, this shall not excuse the injuries that thou hast done me’
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Keeping the peace (conflict)
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- 1 BENVOLIO ‘Part fools! Put up your swords you know not what you do’
- 5 CAPULET ‘Be patient, take no note of him… Make a mutiny amongst my guests!’
- 1 ROMEO ‘I do protest I never injured thee, but loved thee better than thou canst devise’
- 1 ROMEO ‘Villain am I none’
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Family
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- 3 JULIET ‘Madam I am here’
- 5 JULIET ‘Sweet,sweet,sweet nurse’
- 3 LADY CAPULET ‘Nurse give leave a while… Nurse come back again’
- 5 LADY CAPULET ‘Talk not to me, for I’ll speak a word. Do what thou wilt, for I have done with thee’
- 2 CAPULET ‘She’s the hopeful lady of my earth’
- 2 CAPULET ‘Within her scope of choice lies my consent’
- 4 CAPULET ‘I think she will be ruled in all respects by me’
- 4 CAPULET ‘Wife, go you…’
- 5 CAPULET ‘Hang thee, young baggage, disobedient wretch!’
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Fate
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- 1 PROLOGUE ‘A pair of star-crossed lovers take their life’
- 4 ROMEO ‘My mind misgives some consequences yet hanging in the stars,… some vile forfeit of untimely death
- 4 ROMEO ‘But he that hath steerage of my course direct my sail!’
- 1 ROMEO ‘O I am fortune’s fool’
- 1 ROMEO ‘Then I defy you, stars!’
- 5 MERCUTIO ‘Dreamers often lie’
- 5 MERCUTIO ‘I talk of dreams, which are the children of an idle brain, begot of nothing but vain fantasy’
- 5 JULIET ‘Be fickle fortune: for then I hope thou wilt not keep him long but send him back’
- 3 FRIAR LAWRENCE ‘Unhappy fortune!’
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DEATH AND FORESHADOWING
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- 1 PROLOGUE ‘A pair of star-cross’s lovers take their life’
- 5 JULIET ‘If he be married, my grave is like to be my wedding bed’
- 4 FRIAR LAWRENCE ‘Thou art wedded to calamity
- 5 JULIET ‘Delay this marriage for a month, a week/ Or, if you do not, make the bridal bed/ In that dim monument where Tybalt lies’
- 5 LADY CAPULET ‘I would the fool were married to her grave’
- 1 ROMEO ‘I dreamt my lady came and found me dead,… but breathed such life with kisses in my lips, that I revived, and was an emperor’
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LIGHT/ DARK IMAGERY
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- 5 ROMEO ‘O she doth teach the torches to burn bright’
- 2 ROMEO ‘It is the east and Juliet is the sun’
- 2 JULIET ‘Give me my Romeo. And when I shall die, take him and cut out in little stars, and he will make the face of heaven so fine’
- 2 JULIET ‘If love be blind, it best agrees with night’
- 5 ROMEO ‘More light and light, more dark and dark our woes’
- 3 ROMEO ‘For here lies Juliet, and her beauty makes this vault a feasting presence full of light’
