Romeo n Juliet - Quotes

Question 1

Three civil brawls, bred of an airy word, / By thee, old Capulet, and Montague…(1.1)

Answer 1

By Prince Escalus - Montagues and Capulets have enabled the street brawling that is destroying the peace of Verona on three separate occasions

Question 2

Here’s much to do with hate, but more with love:/Why then, O brawling love, O loving hate…! (1.1)

Answer 2

By Romeo - talking about his experience of love and how it can make him happy and sad at the same time, it is both love and hate. He is connecting his feelings to the remains of the brawl

Question 3

my child is yet a stranger in the world (1.2)

Answer 3

By Capulet - Shows he still has control of her and that she is too young to truly know what the world is like. He is telling Paris to wait to marry her until she had more experience in the world

Question 4

And too soon marred are those so early made (1.2).

Answer 4

By Capulet - saying that girls that marrying to young grow up too quickly, foreshadows the failure/outcome of her marriage with romeo

Question 5

Madam, I am here, what is your will? (1.3)

Answer 5

By Juliet - shows obedience and that she respects her mothers authority, shows that she seems her mother as more of an authoritative figure then a parental figure

Question 6

It is an honour that I dream not of (1.3)

Answer 6

By Juliet - showing respect to her mother by saying it is an honour but yet is saying she doesnt dream to marry, once again shows her mother doesnt hold parental status to Juliet

Question 7

O she doth teach the torches to burn bright! (1.5)

Answer 7

By Romeo - Saying her beauty is brighter than the torches and she makes them dim in comparison, her beauty outshines the torches.

Question 8

Did my heart love till now? Forswear it, sight!/For I ne’er saw true beauty till this night. (1.5)

Answer 8

By Romeo - Says he has never truly loved until now because he has never seen such a beautiful woman, he equates love with beauty

Question 9

But soft, what light through yonder window breaks?/It is the east, and Juliet is the sun. (2.2)

Answer 9

By Romeo - metaphorical comparison between Juliet and the Sun,

Question 10

’Tis but thy name that is my enemy (2.2)

Answer 10

By Juliet - She is lamenting about how the man she loves is the enemy of her family, Choosing between family and love. Should she defend her family or betray them for love?

Question 11

My bounty is as boundless as the sea,/My love as deep (2.2)

Answer 11

By Juliet - Nature simile that reveals the strength of love by comparing it to the incredibly powerful sea, without boundaries or limits. Extends simile to present love as generous and selfless, as infinite

Question 12

Young men’s love then lies/Not truly in their hearts, but in their eyes (2.3)

Answer 12

By Friar Lawrence - addressing the fact that young men generally beleive love is what they feel when they see someone who is beautiful, Friar is questioning Romeo’s ability to identify true love and if he actually is in love with Juliet

Question 13

To turn your households’ rancour to pure love (2.3)

Answer 13

By Friar Lawrence - implies that the friar wants to convert the two families hatred into a loving relationship

Question 14

Wisely and slow; they stumble that run fast (2.3)

Answer 14

By Friar Lawrence - advising romeo to think carefully and wisely about his decision to marry romeo, however he fails to take his own advise by marrying them asap

Question 15

Spread thy close curtain, love-performing night,/That runaways’ eyes may wink, and Romeo/Leap to these arms… (3.2)

Answer 15

By Juliet - Asking for night to come so that Romeo can come to her without anyone seeing him

Question 16

O serpent heart, hid with a flow’ring face! (3.2)

Answer 16

By Juliet - Juliet has uncovered that Romeo has a dark side and has a less attractive side to him. Finds out that he is still capable of killing

Question 17

Thou canst not speak of that thou dost not feel (3.3)

Answer 17

By Romeo - criticising Friar Lawrence for giving him advice on a relationship that he is not involved in, after Friar Lawrence questioned Romeo’s true feelings and told him to take it slow

Question 18

Art thou gone so, love, lord, ay husband, friend? (3.5)

Answer 18

By Juliet - talking to romeo telling him that she wants them to stay close and stay in touch despite the distance between them

Question 19

Hang thee, young baggage! disobedient wretch! (3.5)

Answer 19

By Capulet - use of insulting language shows his disgust, calls her baggage as in extra or unnecessary weight and is worthless

Question 20

…hang, beg, starve, die in the streets (3.5)

Answer 20

By Capulet - Showing he cares more about his family legacy and how it continues than his own daughter who means little to him

Question 21

…to live an unstained wife to my sweet love. (4.1)

Answer 21

By Juliet - she is willing to sit in a grave full of dead people for romeo and romeo is like a beam of light in the dark grave, she adds emphasis on her identity as Romeo’s wife,

Question 22

…this reverend holy Friar,/All our whole city is much bound to him. (4.2)

Answer 22

By Juliet - showing the impact the Friar has had on her and her gratefulness towards him, also shows how the friar has large influence in the city/hopes to

Question 23

…then I defy you, stars! (5.1)

Answer 23

By Romeo - cursing his fate, taking fate into his own hands to resolve the matter of Juliets ‘death’

Question 24

…O give me thy hand,/One writ with me in sour misfortune’s book! (5.3)

Answer 24

By Romeo - identifies himself and Paris as victims of fate

Question 25

And shake the yoke of inauspicious stars/From this world-wearied flesh. (5.3)

Answer 25

By Romeo - he is preparing to die beside Juliet and in doing so will remove the ‘yolk’ of unluckiness and misfortune that has afflicted him