| the two lovers will take their lives. Theme: Love | A pair of star-cross’dlovers take their life; Prologue |
| Prologue- talking about R and J’s dangerous love. Theme: Love | The fearful passage oftheir death-mark’d love, |
| 1.5 (Romeo-Oh, she shows the torches how to burn bright! She stands out against the darkness like a jeweled earring hanging against the cheek of an African. Theme: Love | Oh, she doth teach the torches to burn bright!It seems she hangs upon the cheek of nightLike a rich jewel in an Ethiope’s ear, |
| (Juliet)- talking about how good Romeo can kiss. Theme: Love | You kiss by th’book. 1.5 |
| 1.5 (Juliet)- When she finds out that her only love was from the Montague family. Theme: Love | My only love sprung from my only hate! |
| 1.5 (Juliet)- talking after she found out Romeo was a Montague. Theme: Love/fate | Too early seen unknown, and known too late! |
| (Romeo)- talking about Juliet and making metaphors about how lovely she is (hint:sun). Theme: Love | But, soft! what light through yonder windowbreaks?It is the east, and Juliet is the sun! 2.2 |
| (Juliet)-Oh, Romeo, Romeo, why do you have to be Romeo? Forget about your father and change your name. Or else, if you won’t change your name, just swear you love me and I’ll stop being a Capulet. Theme: Love | O Romeo, Romeo! wherefore art thou Romeo?Deny thy father and refuse thy name;[…] And I’ll no longer be a Capulet. 2.2 |
| (Juliet)-Oh, be some other name! What does a name mean? The thing we call a rose would smell just as sweet if we called it by any other name. Theme: Love | What’s in a name? That which we call a rose,By any other word would smell as sweet; 2.2 |
| 2.2 (Juliet)- don’t swear by the moon, it is inconstant. Theme: Love | O, swear not by the moon, the inconstant moon, |
| (Mercutio)- talking about his battle wound and making metaphors about the injury. Theme: Love/word play | No, ’tis not so deep as a well, nor so wide as achurch-door; but ’tis enough, ’twill serve:ask for me to-morrow, and you shall find me agrave man. 3.1 |
| 3.1 (Romeo)- Oh, I have awful luck. Theme: Fate | O, I am fortune’s fool! |
| 3.2 (Juliet)- Come, loving, dark night. Give me my Romeo. And when I die, turn him into stars and form a constellation in his image. His face will make the heavens so beautiful that the world will fall in love with the night and forget about the garish sun. Theme: Love | Come, gentle night, — come, loving blackbrow’d night,Give me my Romeo; and when he shall die,Take him and cut him out in little stars,And he will make the face of Heaven so fineThat all the world will be in love with night,And pay no worship to the garish sun |
| 3.5 (Juliet)-That sound you heard was the nightingale, not the lark. Every night the nightingale chirps on that pomegranate-tree. Theme: Love | It was the nightingale, and not the lark,that pierced the fearful hollow of thine ear; |
| 3.5 (Juliet)-asking her mother to help her, in her grief. Theme: Love/Fate | O sweet my mother, cast me not away |
| 5.1 (Romeo)-Then I rebel against you, stars! Theme: Love | Then I defy you, stars! (24) |
| 5.3 (Romeo)- talking about how the drugs take effect quickly before he died he kissed Juliet. Theme: Love | O true apothecary! Thy drugs are quick. —Thus with a kiss I die. |
| 5.3 (Juliet)- about to kill herself. Theme: Love | O, happy dagger!This is thy sheath; there rest, and let me die. |
| 1.4 (Romeo/Mercutio)- talking about their dreams. Romeo thinks it is not a good idea to go to the party as he later predicts his death. Theme: Fate | Romeo: I dream’d a dream to-night.Mercutio: And so did I.Romeo: Well, what was yours?Mercutio: That dreamers often lie. |
| 2.4 Friar Lawrence- telling Romeo to calm down and think his desicion of marriage trhough. Theme: Love | Wisely and slow. They stumble that run fast. |
| 1.2 (Capulet)- telling Paris Juliet is too young to marry and that she is his hopeful lady. Theme: Love | My child is yet a stranger in the world…Earth hath swallowed all my hopes but she.She’s the hopeful lady of my earth |
| 1.4 Mercutio- You’re a lover. Take Cupid’s wings and fly higher than the average man. Theme: Love | You are a lover; borrow Cupid’s wings,And soar with them above a common bound |
| Romeo- telling Tybalt he or Romeo himself must die and go with Mercutio. Theme: Conflict | Either thou or I, or both, must go with him 3.1 |
| Friar Lawrence- These sudden joys have sudden endings. He is telling Roemo this hasty/”violent” love (“delights”) could have a bad ending. Theme: Conflict | These violent delights have violent ends. 2.6 |
| 1.5 Nurse- telling Juliet Romeo is from the Montague household. Theme: Conflict | His name is Romeo, and a Montague;The only son of your great enemy. |
| 1.1 Tybalt-Your sword is out and you talk of peace? Theme: Conflict | What, drawn, and talk of peace! I hate the word, |
| Tybalt- Insulting Romeo by calling him a villain. Theme: Conflict | Romeo, the hate I bear thee can afford No betterterm than this,—thou art a villain. 3.1 |
| Capulet- I want my sword. Old Montague is here, and he’s waving his sword around just to make me mad. Theme: Conflict/family honour | My sword, I say! Old Montague is come,And flourishes his blade in spite of me. 1.1 |
| 3.1 Mercutio- insults Tybalt. Theme: Conflict | Tybalt, you ratcatcher, will you walk? |
| Capulet- forcing Juliet to marry Paris and then insulting her. Theme: Conflict | But fettle your fine joints ‘gainst Thursday nextTo go with Paris to Saint Peter’s Church,Or I will drag thee on a hurdle thither.Out, you green sickness, carrion! Out, you baggage!You tallow face! 3.5 |
| 3.1 Romeo- It’s time for rage to guide my actions. Romeo is angry at Tybalt for killing his best friend: Mercutio. Theme: Conflict | fire-eyed fury be my conduct now. |
| 3.5 Juliet- Now that you are down there, you look like someone dead in the bottom of a tomb. Theme: fate | Methinks I see thee, now thou art below,As one dead in the bottom of a tomb. |
| 5.2 Friar Lawrence- hears the bad news from Friar John not being able to deliver the letter. Theme: fate | Unhappy fortune! |
| Tybalt-agreeing to follow Capulet’s instruction about not fighting at the party. Theme: fate | I will withdraw, but this intrusion shallNow seeming sweet, convert to bitterestgall 1.5 |
| 3.1 Mercutio- cursing both houses. Theme: fate | A plague o’both your houses |
| Romeo- Foreshadowing a bad consequence of the party. Theme: fate | I fear, too early, for my mind misgivesSome consequence yet hanging in the stars 1.4 |
| 1.5 Juliet- Juliet asks the nurse to ask who “he” is (Romeo). If he’s married, I think I’ll die rather than marry anyone else. Theme: fate | Go ask his name. (The Nurse goes.)If he be married. My grave is like to be my wedding bed. |
| 3.5 Juliet-Oh luck, luck. Everyone says you can’t make up your mind. If you change your mind so much, what are you going to do to Romeo, who’s so faithful? Change your mind, luck. I hope maybe then you’ll send him back home soon. Theme: fate | O Fortune, Fortune! All men call thee fickle.If thou art fickle, what dost thou with himThat is renowned for faith? Be fickle, Fortune.For then I hope thou wilt not keep him long,But send him back. |
| 1.5 Romeo- My life is in the hands of my enemy. Theme: family honour | My life is my foe’s debt |
| 3.1 Romeo- And so, good Capulet—which is a name I love like my own name—you should be satisfied with what I say. Theme: family honour | And so, good Capulet – which name I tenderAs dearly as my own – be satisfied. |
| 2.2 Juliet- It’s only your name that’s my enemy. You’d still be yourself even if you stopped being a Montague. Theme: family honour | Tis but thy name that is mine enemy.Thou art thyself, though not a Montague. |
| Friar Lawrence-the marriage between R and J may stop the feud. Theme: family honour | For this alliance may so happy prove,To turn your households’ rancour to pure love 2.3 |
| 3.5 Nurse- trying to get Juliet to marry Paris, Theme: family honour | I think it best you married with the County.O he’s a lovely gentleman. |
| Tybalt- Defending the familiy honour, Theme: family honour | Now by the stock and honour of my kinTo strike him dead I hold it not a sin. 1.5 |
| Capulet- Claiming ownership of Juliet and threatening her. Theme: family honour | And you be mine, I’ll give you to my friendAnd you be not, hang, beg, starve, die in thestreets. 3.5 |
| Mercutio-This calm submission is dishonorable and vile. Theme: family honour | O calm, dishonourable, vile submission! 3.1 |
| 1.1 Sampson- I’ll bite my thumb at them. That’s an insult, and if they let me get away with it they’ll be dishonored. Theme: family honour | I will bite my thumb at them which is a disgrace tothem if they bear it. |
| Lady Capulet telling Juliet to do as Capulet wants. Theme: family honour | Talk not to me, for I’ll not say a wordDo as thou wilt, for I have done with thee 3.5 |
| Capulet giving orders for people to get his sword | Fetch me my long sword, ho! – Capulet 1.5 |
Romeo and Juliet quote learning
December 30, 2019