| Act 3Mercutio | pg.633,lines 37-38″And but one word with one of us! Couple it with something; make it a word and a blow.” meaning: Mercutio taunts Tybalt. He tries to engage him in a fight. |
| Act 3Mercutio | pg.633,lines 71″ 0 calm, dishonorable, vile submission !”meaning: Mercutio is upset that Romeo won’t accept Tybalt’s challenge. Mercutio decides to fight Tybalt himself, which leads to Mercutio’s death. |
| Act 3 Mercutio | pg.635,lines 88-89″I am hurt.A plague a’ both houses ! I am sped. Is he gone and hath nothing?’meaning: Mercutio curses the Montague and Capulet families. if not for their fued, he would not be dying. Tybalt is unharmed. |
| Act 3Mercutio | pg.635,lines 94-95″ Ask for me tomorrow, and you shall find me a grave man.”meaning: Pun. ” Grave” can mean ” serious” or “dead.” Mercutio will be dead soon. he jokes even when facing death. |
| Act 3Romeo | pg.636,lines 115-116″This day’s black fate on moe days doth depend; This but begins the woe others must end.”meaning: The future will be affected by today’s events. foreshadowing. |
| Act 3 Romeo | pg.636,lines 132 ” 0, I am fortune’s fool!”meaning: Romeo says he is a victim of fate. this continues the theme of fate controlling life. |
| Act 3 Lady Capulet | pg.637,lines 145″For blood of ours shed blood of Montague.”meaning: :Lady Capulet wants revenge for Tybalt’s death. She believes Romeo should be put to death. |
| Act 3 Lady Capulet | pg,637,lines 177″ Romeo slew Tybalt; Romeo must not live.”meaning: Lady capulet wants justice for Tybalt’s death. she reminds the prince what Romeo’s punishment should be. |
| Act 3 Prince | pg.638,lines 182- 183″and for that offence Immediately we do exile him hence.” meaning: the prince banishes romeo from Verona. He shows mercy because romeo avenged Mercutio’s death , and Mercutio was a relative of the prince. |
| Act 3Juliet | pg.642 ,lines 112-113 “Tybalt is dead, and Romeo-banished.”That “banished,” that one word “banished, ” meaning : Juliet says that banishment is worse than death. |
| Act 3Friar | pg.646,lines 109-110″ Art thou a man ?Thy form cries out thou art;Thy tears are womanish.”meaning: Man up! Friar scolds Romeo and tells him this expression of grief and anger are inappropriate. |
| Act 3Juliet | scene 5 pg.649,lines 1-3″ Wilt thou be gone? It is not yet near day.It was the nightingale, and not the lark,That pierc’d the fearful hollow of thine ear.”meaning: Juliet is reluctant to admit that it is almost morning. She does not want Romeo to leave. |
| Act 3Juliet | pg.652,lines 54-57″0 God, I have an ill -divining soul!Methinks I see thee, now thou art so low,As one dead in the bottom of a tomb.Either my eyesight fails, or thou lookest pale.”meaning: Foreshadowing. as Romeo descends the ladder from her balcony, Juliet thinks he looks as if he is dead in the bottom of a tomb. |
| Act 3Capulet | pg.654,lines 160″Hang thee, young baggage! Disobedient wretch!”meaning: Lord Capulet is angry with Juliet for refusing to marry Paris. He tells her to marry him on Thursday, or he will disown her. |
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LA. Romeo and Juliet. Act 3 quotes
September 10, 2019