themes r&j Flashcards
Prologue Death, violence and hatred
From ancient grudge break to new mutiny
1.1 Death, violence and hatred
TYBALT: Peace? I hate the word, As I hate hell, all Montagues, and thee.
1.5 Death, violence, hatred
TYBALT: Now by the stock and honour of my kin to strike him dead I hold it not a sin.
3.1 Death, violence, hatred
TYBALT: Boy, this shall not excuse the injuries that thou hast done me.
Prologue death violence, hatred
A pair of star-cross’d lovers take their life
1.5 Death, violence, hatred
JULIET: If he be married, my grave is like to be my wedding bed
3.5 Death, violence, hatred
JULIET: Methinks I see thee, now thou art below, As one dead in the bottom of a tomb.
3.5 Death, violence, hatred
JULIET: Delay this marriage for a month, a week / Or, if you do not, make the bridal bed / In that dim monument where Tybalt lies
3.5 Death, violence, hatred
LADY CAPULET: I would the fool were married to her grave
5.1 Death, violence, hatred
ROMEO: I dreamt my lady came and found me dead,… but breathed such life with kisses in my lips, that I revived, and was an emperor
Prologue Fate, Destiny
A pair of star-crossed lovers take their life.
1.4 Fate, Destiny
ROMEO: My mind misgives some consequence yet hanging in the stars, … some vile forfeit of untimely death
1.4 Fate
ROMEO: But He that hath the steerage of my course Direct my sail!
3.1 Fate
ROMEO: O I am fortune’s fool.
5.1 Fate
ROMEO: Then I defy you, stars!
3.5 Fate
MERCUTIO: Dreamers often lie
3.5 Fate
MERCUTIO: I talk of dreams, Which are the children of an idle brain, Begot of nothing but vain fantasy
3.5 Fate
JULIET: Be fickle fortune: For then I hope thou wilt not keep him long but send him back
5.3 Fate
FRIAR LAWRENCE: Unhappy fortune!
1.2 Depressed/confused about Love
ROMEO: Under love’s heavy burden do I sink
1.5 Depressed/confused about Love
JULIET: My only love sprung from my only hate!
3.2 Depressed/ confused about Love
O serpent heart, hid with a flowering face!
2.2 Romantic Love
ROMEO: With love’s light wings did I o’erperch these walls
2.2 Romantic Love
JULIET: My bounty is as boundless as the sea, my love as deep
2.2 Practical Love
JULIET: O swear not by the moon, the inconstant moon.
1.4 Practical Love
MERCUTIO: If love be rough with you, be rough with love
1.3 Practical Love
LADY CAPULET: So shall you share all that he doth possess
2.6 Possessive Love
ROMEO: Love devouring death do what he dare, It is enough I may but call her mine.
5.2 Possessive Love
JULIET: I have bought the mansion of a love but not possessed it
