| o true apothecary! thy drugs are quick – thus with a kiss i die – 5.3 | romeo’s last words when taking the potion – shows juliet is stronger than him(she stabs herself) – he dies with love/ a kiss which is usually romantic but he has changed it shows their twisted love |
| but, soft! what light through yonder window breaks? it is the east and juliet is the sun! – 2.2 | romeo exclaims his love for juliet in act 2 – first sentence is iambic pentameter, a regular structure shows fairy tale beginning – was eccentric later on shows how their relationship is confusing. – juliet is sunrise shows happiness coming into his life |
| did my heart love till now? forswear it now it, sight! for i ne’er saw true beauty till this night – 1.5 | juliet is romeo’s fist sign of love- shows that rosaline was not true love – ‘forswear’ means deny or give up – he never saw beauty in rosaline |
| oh, she doth teach the torches to burn bright – 1.5 | romeo says that juliet lights brighter than than the torches – light imagery, e.g sun is the center of romeo’s universe – so beautiful she shines brighter than the torches |
| why then, o brawling love! o loving hate! … o heavy lightness! serious vanity – 1.1 | romeo about rosaline – very over the top seems not real shows the unrequited love – oxymorons show confusion and depression of romeo – love is full of contradictive emotions. |
| romeo … thou art a villian 3.1 | tybalt to romeo calling him a villian – worst he can call him |
| fire-eyed fury be my conduct now – 3.1 | romeo is angry due to mercutios death and this will guide him (to kill tybalt) – ‘fire’ shows very angry – ‘eyed’ connotes the soul |
| and so, good capulet – which name i tender as dearly as my own – be satisfied – 3.1 | romeo respects the capulet name and sees no difference between him and juliet |
| the only son of your great enemy – 1.5 | nurse says to juliet about romeo at the ball |
| my life is my foe’s debt – 1.5 | romeo learns that juliet is a capulet – he is in debt to his enemy for bringing him his love |
| then i defy you, stars! – 5.1 | romeo after juliet’s death – he opposses to his destiny as it is causing him pain (being away from juliet) – ironic because his suicide makes juliet kill herslef |
| o, i am fortune’s fool – 3.1 | romeo says he is a fool due to his own love for juliet but he has killed tybalt – foreshadows him dying for juliet |
| some consequences yet hanging in the stars shall bitterly begin – 1.4 | romeo has left it down to fate (meeting someone new) – similar to his relationship with juliet |
| o me, what fray was here? yet tell me not, for i have heard it all here’s much to do with hate, but more with love – 1.1 | romeo is tired of the feud between the families – he compares the fmailies ghatred to his love for rosaline – shows continous love/hate theme throughout the play |
| this vault a feasting presence full of light – 5.3 | romeo is talking to juliet’s dead body – even in death she still lights up her tomb – transcendentally beautiful – lots of light imagery |
| heaven is here, where juliet lives – 3.3 | romeo says that he does not want to leave as he would be leaving juliet – links juliet to heaven and godly |
| tis but thy name that is mine enemy, thou art thyself, though not a montague – 2.2 | juliet says that the name ‘montague’ is her enemy, not romeo – she says that romeo is not a montague, as montague suggests evil |
| my grave is like to be my wedding bed – 1.5 | juliet falls in love with romeo instantly but fears about paris – she says she will die – foreshadows the ending |
| o fortune, fortune! all men call thee fickle – 3.5 | juliet exclaims how fortune is ever changing, it is never set in its ways – shows how their relationship is never secure |
| methinks i see thee, now thou art below, as one dead in the bottom of a tomb – 3.5 | juliet foreshadows her death in act 3 about being dead in a tomb |
| my only love sprung from my only hate – 1.5 | juliet says that her only love has come from her only hate -‘sprung’ suggests it was unexpected(which it was) – personification of love shows how real it is in the story |
| you kiss by th’book – 1.5 | juliet described romeo’s kiss – shows naivety of juliet as she only knows how to kiss from books – shows how she wishes to only talk about methods of their love and will not admit to her feelings |
| o swear not by the moon, the inconsistant moon – 2.2 | juliet believes that the moon is not consistent enough as it changes monthly – she wants their love to be everlasting’eternal |
| what’s in a name? that which we call a rose, by any other word would smell as sweet – 2.2 | juliet syas how romeo’s name is not important a name is separable from the character + person – links romeo to a rose, flower of love |
| 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 | juliet is asking romeo why he is a montague – questions shows she is begging/pleading – she wants him to ignore his name or she will ignore hers |
| come gentle night – come loving black brow’d night, give me my romeo – 3.2 | juliet is waiting for romeo(does not know he is banished) – she wants to sleep with romeo – dramatic irony as we know he is banished shows her obliviousness |
| o sweet my mother, cast me not away! – 3.5 | juliet is begging her mother for forgiveness – exclamatory sentence shows how desperate she is |
| it was the nightingale and not the lark, that pierc’d the fearful hollow of thine ear – 3.5 | juliet does not want romeo to go – ‘nightingale’ is a night bird ‘ lark’ is a day bird |
| straining harsh discords – 3.5 | juliet describes how the bird noises are horrible – birds are normally nice noises but they are splitting them up so they are bad |
| o happy dagger! this is shy sheath; there rust, and let me die – 5.3 | juleit when she kills herself – ‘happy dagger’ oxymoron gives her what she wants, but still kills her, irony – ‘there rust’ shows eternity of rotting and dying together |
| beautiful tyrant! fiend angelical – 3.2 | juliet doesn’t know what to think of romeo after he has killed tybalt – oxymorons show conflict – religious vocabulary |
| lovers can see to do their amorous rites, by their own beauties – 3.2 | juliet believes that making love is a beautiful and romantic act |
| chain me with roaring bears; or shut me nightly in a charnel-house – 4.1 | juliet does not want to marry paris |
Romeo and Juliet – Romeo and Juliet Quotes
November 16, 2019