| ” From ancient grudge break new mutany, where civil blood makes civil hands unclean” | Speaker: ChorusContext: setting play upMeaning form an old feud comes something new, where civilian blood or person who is not millitary makes civilian hands dirty. that civilians are hurting one another |
| ” From forth the fatal loins of these two foes a pair of star-crossed lovers take their lives” Prologue | Speaker: ChorusContext: Explaining what will happen in the playMeaning: From the feud of these enemies comes lovers who are star-crossed meaning that their stars are out of alignment, these lover take their own lives |
| ” Here’s much to do with hate, more with love. Why, then, O brawling love! O loving hate! O anything of first create” (1.1.176) | Speaker: RomeoContext: Romeo is describing his love for RosilineMeaning: love and hate both are involved in love, Fighting love and loving hate are the same love is a fight. |
| ” Well in that hit miss: she’ll not be hit with cupids arrow” (1.1.194) | Speaker: RomeoContext: Romeo is saying Rosiline was not touched by love Meaning: Rosiline was not touched by love and does not love Romeo as he does her |
| “O she is rich in beauty, only poor, that when she dies with beauty dies her story” (1.1.201) | Speaker:RomeoContext: Romeo is describing Rosiline and the sadness of her lack of loveMeaning: Rosiline is Beautiful, but thats it and when she dies her beauty dies with her and beauty was her story meaning that nothing to remember her by except her beauty |
| “Its is an honor that I dream not of” (1.3.70) | Speaker: JulietContext: talking to her mother about marriage and ParisMeaning: Juliet is talking about how she has not thought of marriage, in this case to Paris, while saying very politely |
| “Read o’er the Volume of young Paris’ face, and find delight writ there with beauty’s pen” (1.3.85) | Speaker:lady capuletContext: Talking to Juliet about ParisMeaning: Lady capulet is saying tho go and see Paris, find him good and join his story of beauty |
| “This precious book of love, the unbound lover, to beautify him only lacks a cover” (1.3.91) | Speaker: lady CapuletContext: talking to Juliet about Paris and his beautyMeaning: Paris is a book and beautiful, a great lover, all he lacks is the cover, which by lady Capulet is Juliet who will beautify him |
| “I’ll look to like if looking like move: But no more will I endart mine eye than consent gives strength to make it fly” (1.3.101) | Speaker: JulietContext: taking to Mother about Paris and marriageMeaning: Juliet will look at Paris and see if he is good but not do anything without her mothers consent |
| “My lips, two blushing pilgrims, ready stand to smooth that rough touch, with a tender kiss” (1.5.94) | Speaker: RomeoContext: Balcony scene, confessing love to JulietMeaning: Romeo is saying his lips are two people who travel to a holy place, this place being Juliet and that the only way to smooth them is with a kiss |
| “Good pilgrim, you do wrong your hand much, which mannerly devotion shows in this; for saints have hands that prilgrims’ hands do touch, and palm to palm is holy palmers kiss”(1.1.105 | Speaker: JulietContext: talking to Romeo, responding to RomeoMeaning: Juliet is saying that Romeo thinks badly of him self to much and that he is worthy, the devotion he has shown proves this, and that pilgrims can touch saints |
| “But soft! What light through yonder window breaks? It is east and juliet is the sun”(2.2.1) | Speaker: RomeoContext: Balcony scene, beginingMeaning: Juliet is the sun to Romeo the sight of her is light and bright to him she rises like the sun |
| “O, speak again, bright angel! For thou art as glorious to this night, being o’er my head as is a winged messenger of heaven” (2.2.27) | Speaker:RomeoContext: Romeo dosent want to interupt juliet as she speaks: he is hidenMeaning: Romeo feels that she is above him, like she is an angel, not only that but she is physicly above him |
| “O Romeo, Romeo! wherefore art thou Romeo? Deny thy father and refuse thy name; or , if thou wilt not , be but sworn my love, and I’ll no longer be a Capulet” ( 2.2.38) | Speaker: JulietContext: balcony sceneMeaning: Juliet is saying that why is Romeo a montague and that he should renounce his name and defy his father, but if he wont but will swear his love to her, she will renounce being a Capulet |
| “What’s in a name? that which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet; so Romeo would, were he not Romeo call’d , retain that dear perfection which he owes without that tittle” (2.2.48) | Speaker: JulietContext: Balcony sceneMeaning: What is a name, a name is a name, if you named a rose somthing else it would still be a rose, same goes for Romeo |
| ” My ears have not yet drunk a hundred words of that tongue’s utterance, yet I know the sound” (2.2.58) | Speaker: JulietContext: Balcony scene, Romeo is in on conversatioMeaning: she recognizes him right away even though they have not even said 100 words to each other yet |
| “the orchard walls are high and hard to climb, and the place deaf, considering who thou art, if any of my kinsman find thee here” (2.2.63) | Speaker: JulietContext: Balcony scene Romeo in conversationMeaning: Juliet is worried that if Romeo trys to visit her he might be killed because he is a Montague and an enemy to the Capulet family |
| ” With love’s light wings did I O’er perch these walls; for stony limits can not hold love out” (2.2.68) | Speaker: RomeoContext: Balcony scene, talking to julietMeaning: No physical boundaries can keep Romeo away from Juliet |
| ” My life were better ended by their hate, than death prorogued, wanting of thy love” (2.2.78) | Speaker: RomeoContext: Speaking in Balcony sceneMeaning: Romeo would rather be dead than not be able to be with her and not recieve her love |
| ” I am not pilot; yet, wert thou as far as that vast shore wash’d with the farthest sea, i would adventure for such merchandise” ( 2.2.82) | Speaker: RomeoContext: Speaking Balcony sceneMeaning: Romeo is saying that he would find her even if she was very far off |
Romeo and Juliet Quotes
August 31, 2019