Romeo and Juliet quotes Flashcards
Key scene - impact on Tybalt
Romeo : “Either thou, or I or both must go with him.”
Key scene - impact on Romeo
Romeo: “Fire eyed fury be my conduct now”
Prince: “Immediately we do exile him hence”
Romeo: “There is no world without Verona’s walls”
Key scene - impact on Juliet
Juliet: “Shall I speak ill of him that is my husband?”
Key scene - theme
Romeo: “Did my heart love till now, forswear it sight for I ne’ver saw true beauty till this night.”
Romeo: “Fire eyed fury be my conduct now.”
Key scene - plot
“More light and light, more dark and dark our woes!”
Issue in society -secrecy of love
Juliet : “My only love is sprung from my only hate”.
Romeo: “But love thee better than thou canst devise, till thou shall know the reason of my love; and so good Capulet, which name i tender as dearly, as mine own, be satisfied.”
Issue in society - ignoring the law
“I beg for justice, which thou, Prince, must give. Romeo slew Tybalt. Romeo must not live”.
“But Mantua’s law Is death to any he that utters them”. Romeo replies “I pay thy poverty and not thy will”.
Issue in society - consequences on Romeo and Juliet
“What be these enemies? Capulet, Montague? See what a scourge is laid upon your hate” .
Issue in society- consequences on society
Capulet: “O brother montague, give me thy hand. This is my daughter’s jointure, for no more I can demand.”
Montague: “But I can give thee more, for I will raise her statue in pure gold, that whiles Verona by that name is known, There shall no figure at such rate be set as that of true and faithful Juliet.”
Setting - social setting -the feud
Benvolio: “For now, these hot days, is the mad blood stirring.”
Romeo after Mercutio’s death - “Fire eyed fury be my conduct now!”
Setting - Verona
“Have thrice disturbed the quiet of our streets.”
“From ancient grudge break to new mutiny, where civil blood makes civil hands unclean.”
Setting - friar’s cell
Friar when marrying Romeo and Juliet:Till Holy Church incorporate two in one”
Friar when he gives Juliet the potion : “Take thou this vial, being then in bed,/ and this distilling liquor drink thou off”
Setting - the tomb
Paris when asking his Page (servant) for a torch: “Give me thy torch”
Romeo describing the tomb before entering:“Detestable maw”
Destructive relationship - secrecy of love
Romeo when he finds out who Juliet is :
‘Is she a Capulet? O dear account! My life is my foe’s debt?”
Destructive relationship - impact on relationships with others
‘I tell thee what: get thee to church a’Thursday, or never after look me in the face’
Mercutio as he’s dying : “A plague a’both houses’
Destructive relationships - impact on behaviour - Romeo
“And fire-eyed fury be my conduct now!”
Destructive relationships - impact on behaviour - Juliet
1) Juliet when asked by her mother on her thoughts on marriage ‘It is an honour that I dream not of.’
2) This proves to be a direct contrast to further on in the play. In Act 3, she states, ‘and though I am sold/ Not yet enjoyed.’ - when Juliets is waiting for Romeo in her room.
3) Juliet when she’s about to kill herself: “Oh happy dagger.”
Destructive relationships - impact on society
Prince at the tomb describing the deaths due to the feud :
1)‘Have lost a brace of kinsmen’
2) ‘Here lies the County Paris slain, And Romeo dead, and Juliet, dead before, Warm and new killed.
Families agree to end feud:‘O brother Montague, give me thy hand.’
Romeo’s weakness - fickleness - love
Romeo : “Did my heart love till now?” Forswear it sight. For I ne’er saw true beauty till this night.”
Romeo: “On the fair daughter of rich Capulet; as mine on hers, so hers set on mine.”
Romeo’s weakness - fickleness - conflict
Romeo: ‘And so, good Capulet, which name I tender As dearly as mine own, be satisfied’ -
Romeo after Mercutio’s death : ‘And fire-eyed fury be my conduct now!’
Romeo’s weakness - ignoring friar’s advice
Friar:Virtue itself turns vice, being misapplied…Romeo:I pray thee chide me not. Her I love not’
Romeo’s weakness - ignoring Balthasar’s advice
Balthasar:I do beseech you, sir have patience…
Romeo:Leave me…Well, Juliet, I will lie with thee tonight’
Romeo’s weakness - Romeo’s isolation- rejection from Rosaline
Romeo: “Out of her favour where I am in love”
Romeo’s weakness - isolation- banishment
Friar:“Not body’s death, but body’s banishment.”
Romeo reacts with panic stating that:
“There is no world without Verona walls.”
