Romeo And Juliet - Juliet Quotes Flashcards
“You kiss by the book”
Juliet sweetly tells Romeo he kisses like an expert, showing their very early relationship and how innocent it is, that is until the secrets of the play unfold.
“My grave is like to be my wedding bed”
Antithesis - After Romeo leaves, Juliet asks her nurse to find his name and details, and declares to herself that if he be married to someone already, she will have no other hope in finding another man to marry hence why he grave will be her wedding bed.
Foreshadows the ending of the play.
“My only love sprung from my only hate.”
Juliet too has the same reaction as Romeo when finding they are from fueding families; her first and what she see’s as her only ever love, of course had to be complicated by her lover being from the opposing family.
However she does comically say ‘Prodigious birth of love it is to me’ showing that it is a very omnious start to their love.
Deny thy father and refuse thy name
Juliet is very assertive in the fact that she loves Romeo, and declares this without her knowing he is listening beneath her.
She even says that she loves him despite his Montague heritage, therefore she is denying how his father is a Montague and that his name is of Montague’s.
Opposes patriarchy - Juliet wants Romeo to deny his name.
And I’ll no longer be a Capulet
After having declaring her love and not being fased by Romeo’s family name:
Juliet also says that she will no longer be a Capulet as she feels a name is neither a ‘foot’ nor ‘hand’ therefore it is only ‘some other name!’
Shows pointlessness of the feud.
What’s in a name? That which we call a rose by any other word would smell as sweet”
Flower imagery to show love shrouded by conflict - Juliet is thoughtfully justifying why a name should not determine one’s path of fate or who one could end up with, she compliments this by using an example of a rose which is infact very true in order for the audience to further relate and sympathise.
If thou dost love, pronounce it faithfully
Juliet doesn’t want Romeo to say he loves her just yet, as she thinks that he may not mean it - wants Romeo to be sincere
She is trying to preserve her feelings as hers are true:
In Shakespearean times it wasn’t wise for a woman to show her feelings too early.
Juliet doesn’t want to be ‘too quickly won’ so that she doesn’t get hurt.
It is too rash, too unadvised, too sudden
Asyndetic tricolon: Juliet’s feelings emphasise how she has ‘no joy of this contract tonight’ which alarms the audience as their meetings should be made to last due to their fueding families.
My bounty is as boundless as the sea
Plosives: Shows deep mess of love, Juliets genorosity and what she wants to give to Romeo is as deep as the sea, she wants him to realise that her ‘love is deep’ already and she eventually is persuaded to ‘perform the rite’ (marriage proposal) “By the hour of nine’ tomorrow with Romeo.
