Romeo and Juliet - Act 3 (quotes) Flashcards
Romeo meets an angry Tybalt who still feels he has a score to settle. Tybalt is furious as he feels that Romeo and his friends attended the Capulet ball in order to provoke and humiliate him. After Tybalt insults him, Romeo responds calmly and with diplomacy
“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 knowest me not.”
Here Romeo appears confused and can’t understand why Tybalt feels hurt. Romeo can’t reveal to Tybalt why he must love him and hold the Capulet name close to his heart but he does attempt to avoid altercation. He urges Tybalt to be satisfied with the vague information he has just given
“I do protest, I never injured thee,
But love thee better than thou canst devise,
Till thou shalt know the reason of my love.
And so, good Capulet — which name I tender
As dearly as my own — be satisfied.”
This is a pun which shows Mercutio is a joker until the end. He knows he is dying so he says grave as in serious but also as a place where you bury dead people.
“Ask for me tomorrow, and you shall find me a grave man.”
Tybalt stabs Mercutio under Romeo’s arm and fatally wounds him. Mercutio, in his final moments, vents his anger and bitterness towards the feuding families and blames them.
“…A plague o’ both your houses!
They have made worms’ meat of me.”
Romeo believes that today’s events (Mercutio’s death etc) will have repercussions in the coming days.
“This day’s black fate on more days doth depend.
This but begins the woes others must end.”
Romeo feels that he has meddled with fate and now he will be at its mercy. bad luck will now come in Romeo’s direction.
“O, I am fortune’s fool!.”
The prince announces that, as punishment for killing Tybalt, he will exile Romeo from Verona
” And for that offence
Immediately we do exile him hence.”
On hearing the news that Romeo killed Tybalt, Juliet is furious and feels utterly betrayed by Romeo. She feels that he is little more than an evil person hidden beneath a beautiful face
“O serpent heart, hid with a flowering face!”
Juliet regrets her earlier remarks and feels bad that she blamed Romeo
“O, what a beast was I to chide at him!”
Juliet explains that she can’t speak badly of Romeo and remains loyal to him.
“Shall I speak ill of him that is my husband?”
When Romeo hears that he is to be exiled to Mantua he feels that it that it is worse than death. For Romeo, there is no world to care about outside of Verona
“There is no world without Verona walls”
Romeo reaches for his sword to kill himself as he feels that his situation is hopeless. The Friar is angry with Romeo and reminds him that he has a wife to consider and that he should act like a man
“Art thou a man?”
Capulet arranges the marriage of Juliet to Paris that Thursday
“A’Thursday let it be. A’Thursday, tell her’
She shall be married to this noble earl.”
As Juliet sees Romeo climb down the rope ladder, she has an unsettling premonition of Romeo lying dead in a tomb
“O God, I have an ill-divining soul!
Methinks I see thee, now thou art so low,
As one dead in the bottom of a tomb.”
Juliet refuses to marry Paris
“He shall not make me there a joyful bride.”
