Romeo and Juliet - Quotes Flashcards
Romeo:
‘ Under love’s ……… ‘
‘ heavy burden do I sink ‘
~love weighs him down - unrequited love/ courtly love
- personification of love as a burden
- under foreshadows death - it is controlling
Romeo:
‘ it is the …… ‘
‘ east and Juliet is the sun ‘
~ courtly love - man praises woman
- metaphor - people need the sun , and Romeo needs Juliet
- Juliet is on a balcony - she is closer to the sun and heaven
- Juliet has a powerful presence
Romeo:
‘ oh I am …..’
‘ fortune’s fool ‘
~ people blaming fate on their actions
- blames fate for Tybalt’s death- no responsibility
- fool describes a jester in those times - jester is there to entertain therefore Romeo must be entertaining Fate
- fortune is playing with him - like a game
Romeo:
‘ with love’s light ….’
‘ wings did I o’er perch these walls ‘
- people not being able to choose their partners - alliteration ‘l’
- love makes him do the impossible
- walls - barriers - family feud
- personification of love
Juliet:
‘ he shall not make me there ….’
‘ a joyful bride ‘
~ marry twice meant damnation
- women were expected to be passive and obedient
- Juliet stands up to her father - assertive that she won’t marry Paris
- shall is a modal verb
- talking to her mum about Paris
Juliet:
‘ come gentle night […] give ….. ‘
‘ me my Romeo ‘
~ marriage isn’t complete until consummated
- give - imperative verb
- waiting for Romeo to come for their wedding night - after Tybalt’s death
- speaks about Romeo positively
Lord Capulet:
‘ an you be mine, I’ll give you. To my friend; and you be not, hang …..’
‘ beg, starve, die in the streets ‘
~ children seen as property
- women financially dependant on their fathers
- list ~ one syllable words
Lady Capulet:
‘ I would the fool …’
‘ were married to her grave’ ~ women were expected to be passive - her mother follows the stereotype, Juliet doesn’t - wishing Juliet death - harsh ~ doesn’t defend Juliet - distant family relationships
Mercutio:
‘ O calm, dishonourable…..’
‘ vile submission ‘ ~ defending family honour
- masculinity means not accepting any insult
- talking about Romeo because he doesn’t want to fight Tybalt
- expects Romeo to fight
Benvolio:
‘ part fools ! Put up …’
‘ your swords. You know not what you do ‘
- thinks the feud is stupid
- benvolio is a peacemaker
Tybalt:
‘ Peace ! I hate the word …’
‘ as I hate hell all montagues and thee.
- aggressive, villainous character
- hates hell and peace
- he thinks peace is stupid
Friar Lawrence:
‘ households rancour ….’
‘ to pure love ‘
- rancour means hatred
- foreshadows the end of the feud
- naïve - thinks marriage will end the feud and doesn’t consider possibilities to if it will happen or not
Nurse:
‘ you are to blame my lord… ‘
‘ to rate her so ‘
- defends Juliet
Prince:
‘ three….. ‘
‘Civil brawls, bred of an airy word ‘
- the families are fighting over nothing
- street fights in England and Italian being hot headed
Prince:
‘ you men, ….’
‘ you beasts ‘
- the men are uncontrollable
- whatever they have done is horrible
- untamed characteristics
- being manly meant never accepting an insult
- England had street fights and Italians were hot headed
Juliet:
‘ my bounty is as ….’
‘ boundless as the sea ‘
- her love can’t be measured. ~ ‘as boundless as the sea’
- courtly love
- people at the time we not able to choose their partners
- simile ~ moving too fast
- links the passion in their relationship
Capulet:
‘ let two more summers wither in their pride, ere we may think her …’
‘ ripe to be a bride ‘
- marriage was seen as a business arrangement
- marriages needed parental consent
- children were seen as property
- Capulet thought Juliet was too young to get married ( 13 at the time )
Lady Capulet:
‘But she will none ….’
‘ she gives you thanks ‘
- Capulet thinks Juliet is being disobedient ~ doesn’t want to marry Paris
- use of dramatic irony ~ we know Juliet is already married
- marrying twice meant damnation at the time
Capulet:
‘ disobedient …’
‘Wretch ‘
- ‘wretch’ ~ someone who is unfortunate ~ implies that Capulet calls Juliet bad luck. - links to fate
- ‘disobedient’ ~ adjective used to describe Capulet’s anger coz Juliet disobeys him
- Juliet testing her father’s role as head of the family
Capulet:;
‘Young …..’
‘Baggage ‘
- metaphor used to describe Juliet as a burden
- links with children being seen as property
- baggage is portable ~ links to women being financially dependant on their fathers and then husbands ~ links to ‘ I’ll give you to my friend’ quote
Prince:
For never was a story of more woe than…..
this of Juliet and her Romeo
- no other tale has been as sad as this
- tragedy
- woe: great sorrow or distress
Juliet:
What’s in a name? That which we call a rose,By any other……
word would smell as sweet
- Juliet has modern ideas ~ your name does not define you
- in her time the family you come from sets out how people viewed you
Juliet:
Good Night, Good night! Parting is such ……..
sweet sorrow, that I shall say good night till it be morrow
- ‘sweet’ they next time they meet will be their wedding day
- Juliet expresses her sorrow of being away from Romeo
Gregory:
‘Do you bite your……
thumb at us, sir?
- insult
- males cannot accept an insult
- male aggression
Prologue:
‘A pair of star-crossed……
‘Lovers take their life’
- fate
- tragedy
Prologue:
‘ their death……
‘Mark’d love ‘
- tragedy
Romeo:
‘Brawling love! O ……
loving hate! ‘
- oxymoron
- talking about Rosaline
Romeo:
‘Feather of lead, bright smoke……
Cold fire, sick health!
- talking about Rosaline
- oxymoron
Lord Capulet:
‘ my child is yet a…..
Stranger in the world’
- talking about Juliet being to young to get married
- stranger ~ too young
Lord Capulet:
‘ my will to her consent …..
Is but a part’
- gives Juliet consent
Juliet:
‘My only love sprung……
From my only hate! ‘
- talking about Romeo
- when she fights out he is a Montague
- family feud separates them
Friar Lawrence:
‘To turn your households’ ….
Rancour to pure love’
- Friar Lawrence thought the marriage would end the feud ~ naïve
- didn’t think it through
Friar Lawrence:
‘Young men’s love then lies/ not truly in their hearts…..
But in their eyes’
- men are more concerned with women’s looks
- Friar Lawrence talking to Romeo
Mercutio:
‘A plague…..
O’ both your houses’
- curse on both houses
- he is blaming the feud for his death
Juliet:
‘He shall not make …..
There a joyful bride’
- sure of herself
- doesn’t want to marry Paris
Romeo:
‘Tybalt that an hour hath ………
Been my Kinsman’
- the conflict has caused Romeo to get married in secret
- Shakespeare’s show that the conflict has led to lots of secrecy
Mercutio:
‘They have made…..
Worms meat of me’
- Mercutio lost the fight between him and Tybalt ~ he has lost his honour
- Mercutio is loyal coz he stands up for Romeo
Romeo:
‘ o sweet Juliet, thy beauty hath….
Me effeminate’
- this shows Romeo has become weak
