Romeo And Juliet Quotes Flashcards

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What does capulet call Juliet

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Hang thee, young baggage ! Disobedient wretch!

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A quote to show love as painful

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Under loves heavy burden do I sink

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A quote to show Love as confusing

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Did my heart love till now forswear it sight for I never saw true beauty till this night

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Analyse under loves heavy burden do I sink

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Burden - metaphor , suggests love is difficult to manage
Love - personification, it is weighing him down
Heavy - adjective , roomer is oppressed by love , controlled by love

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Analyse baggage

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Juliet is a burden to capulet
His possession
Unwanted
Context - children were property of their father
LTROP - his love becomes anger and hatred ‘I’ll ne’er acknowledge thee ‘

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Context

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Children were seen as property
Family honour was important
Wet nurses
Male pride - not accepting any insult (brawl in beginning, stuck thumb out)

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The Family feud

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They fought over something small

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How love is shown in the play

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Painful 
Fake 
Confusing 
Powerful 
fate 
Controlling
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9
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Religious superstition

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Religious society - marrying twice and suicide were both a mortal sin
Believing on fate meant that people didn’t always consider themselves responsible for their own actions
Catholics were viewed with suspicion and the fir air meddling with herbs was considered untrustworthy and sinister

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A quote to that Romeo is immature about love

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Young men’s love lies not truly in their hearts but in their eyes

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A quote to show Love is powerful

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For this alliance may so happy prove , to turn your households rancour to pure love

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12
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Love as powerful

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With loves light wings did I o’er perch these walls

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13
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Controlling

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I think she will be rules , in all respects by me

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14
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Love is fate

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Star crossed lovers death marked love

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Romeo - it is the east , and Juliet is the sun

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Theme - Love

Juliet lights his world up

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16
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Oh I am fortunes fool

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Themes - conflict , fate

17
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With love’s light wings did I o’er perch these walls

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Theme - lover as powerful

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He shall not make me there a joyful ride

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Theme - love conflict family

19
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Lord capulet - an you be mine , ill give you to my friend ; and you be not , hang , beg , starve , die in the streets

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Themes - Conflict, death, family

20
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Mercutio - o calm , dishonourable, vile submission

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Themes - Conflict , fate

21
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Three civil brawls, bred of an airy word

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Conflict

Fighting over nothing important

22
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You men you beasts

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They have done something shocking

Uncontrollable

23
Q

Why was it set in Italy

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Italy was known in England for its passion and violence which is both seen in the play

24
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Courtly love

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Love being secret or forbidden

The man praising the female’s beauty

25
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Unrequited love

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The lady wasn’t interested in the courtly lover and remained unavailable this resulted in the courtly lover sighing and moaning over the lover - Romeo at the start of the play with Rosaline

26
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Benvolio

‘Part, fools! …’

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‘Put up your swords’

26
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Juliet

‘ come gentle night ,come ,loving black-borrowed night …’

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‘Give me my Romeo’

26
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Lady Capulet

‘I would the …’

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‘Fool married to her grave’

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Tybalt

‘Peace I hate the word …’

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‘As I hate hell all montagues and thee’

26
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Nurse

‘You are to …’

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‘Blame, My lord to rate her so’

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Juliet

‘My only love …’

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‘Sprung from my only hate’