Themes Flashcards
Fate
ROMEO:Some consequence yet hanging in the stars, … some vile forfeit of untimely
death
ROMEO:But He that hath the steerage of my course Direct my sail!
ROME0: Then I defy you, stars!
FRIAR:These violent delights have violent ends
JULIET:My grave is like to be my wedding bed
Light and Dark Imagery
O, she doth teach the torches to burn bright - Romeo
It is the east and Juliet is the sun. - Romeo
Give me my Romeo. And when I shall die, Take him and cut him out in little stars, And he will
make the face of heaven so fine. - Juliet
If love be blind, it best agrees with night. - Juliet
For here lies Juliet, and her beauty makes this vault a feasting presence full of light. - Romeo
Family
What, lamb! What ladybird!
I can tell her age unto an hour. - Nurse
Nurse, give leave a while… Nurse come back again.
I have done with thee. - Lady Capulet
Madam, I am here.
Sweet, sweet, sweet nurse - Juliet
She’s the hopeful lady of my earth.
Hang thee, young baggage, disobedient wretch! - Capulet
I think she will be ruled in all respects by me
Wife, go you… - Capulet
Death and Foreshadowing
A pair of star-cross’d lovers take their life -Prologue
If he be married, my grave is like to be my wedding bed - Juliet
Thou art wedded to calamity. - Friar
Methinks I see thee, now thou art below, As one dead in the bottom of a tomb. - Juliet
I would the fool were married to her grave. - Lady Capulet
Conflict
PROLOGUE: From ancient grudge break to new mutiny,
TYBALT: Peace? I hate the word, As I hate hell, all Montagues, and thee.
1BENVOLIO: Part fools! Put up your swords, you know not what you do
BENVOLIO: I do but keep the peace. Put up thy sword or manage it to part these men with me.
ROMEO: I do protest I never injured thee, but loved thee better than thou canst devise.
ROMEO: Villain am I none
ROMEO: Gentle Mercutio, put thy rapier
