Romeo(me) and Juliet(ur mom) Flashcards
Prologue structure :
Sonnet 14 lines
Prologue conflict
Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean.
Prologue death
The fearful passage of their death-marked love
Prologue fate and love
A pair of star-crossed lovers take their life
Romeo fate/dramatic irony act 1 scene 4
I fear too early, for my mind misgives;
Some consequence, yet hanging in the stars,
Shall bitterly begin.
Romeo first impression of Juliet act 1 scene 5
O she doth teach the torches to burn bright.
It seems she hangs upon the cheek of night
As a rich jewel in an Ethiope’s ear.
Romeo love act 2 scene 2
With love’s light wings did I o’erperch these walls,
For stony limits cannot hold love out
Romeo masculinity/regret act 3 scene 1
O sweet Juliet
Thy beauty hath made me effeminate
And in my temper softened valour’s steel!
Romeo fate act 5 scene 1
I defy you, stars!
Romeo act 5 scene 3 death
Why art thou yet so fair? Shall I believe
That unsubstantial Death is amorous.
Juliet obedience act 1 scene 3
I’ll look to like, if looking liking move
But no more deep will I endart my eye,
Than your consent gives strength to make it fly.
Juliet religion/innocence act 1 scene5
Then have my lips the sin they have took
Juliet honour vs love act 3 scene2
Beautiful tyrant, fiend angelical!
Dove-feathered raven, wolvish-ravening lamb!
Despised substance of divinest show!
Juliet honour/death act 3 scene 5
Indeed, I never shall be satisfied
With Romeo till I behold him — dead —
Is my poor heart for a kinsman vexed.
Juliet death act 5 scene 3
O happy dagger,this is thy sheath.
There rust, and let me die.
Mercutio fate/cynisms act 1 scene 4
True, I talk of dreams,
Which are the children of an idle brain,
Begot of nothing but vain fantasy.
Mercutio sexual desire act 2 scene 1
O Romeo, that she were, O, that she were
An open-arse, thou a poperin pear!
Mercutio death/fate act 3 scene 1
A plague o’ both your houses.
They have made worms’ meat of me.
Friar Lawrence foreshadowing/juxtaposition of good and evil act 2 scene 3
Within the infant rind of this weak flower
Poison hath residence and medicine power.
Friar Lawrence death/guilt act 5 scene 3
Doth make against me of this direful murder;
And here I stand both to impeach and purge,
Myself condemned and myself excused.
Nurse foreshadowing/relationship/death(act 1 scene 3)
Come Lammas Eve at night shall she be fourteen.
Susan and she, God rest all Christian souls
Were of an age.
Nurse distress/familial bond(act 4 scene 5)
O woe! O woeful, woeful, woeful day!
Most lamentable day, most woeful day
That ever, ever, I did yet behold!
O day! O day! O day! O hateful day!
Never was seen so black a day as this.
O woeful day, O woeful day!
Lord Capulet family act 1 scene 2
My child is yet a stranger in the world,
She hath not seen the change of fourteen years
Lady Capulet tradition act 1 scene 3
Be my count,
I was your mother much upon these years
that you are now a maid.
