R + J quotes (no analysis)

“A pair of star-cross’d lovers take their life”

* Theme: Fate, Love, Conflict, Death
* Character: Romeo and Juliet
* Context: believed in fate, written in the stars

“What, drawn, and talk of peace! I hate the word, as i hate hell, all Montagues, and thee”

* Theme: Conflict, Recklessness, Masculinity, Duty
* Characters: Tybalt
* Context: men fighting for honour, ideals placed on men, aggressive and fearless

“Let two more summers wither in their pride, ere we may think her ripe to be a bride”

* Theme: Family, Duty, Love
* Characters: Lord Capulet, Juliet
* Context: Women seen as objects that were married off, Business deal, Lord Capulet in control

“Madam, I am here. What is your will?”

* Theme: Family and Duty
* Characters: Juliet and Lady Capulet
* Context: Formal relationship with parents (nurse)

“O, then, dear saint, let lips do what hand do; they pray”

* Theme: Religion, Love, Recklessness
* Characters: Romeo and Juliet
* Context: Courtly love (religious), religion was very important

“O Romeo, Romeo! Wherefore art thou Romeo? Deny thy father and refuse thy name”

* Theme: Love, Conflict, Family
* Characters: Romeo and Juliet
* Context: Grudge between two families

“It is too rash, too unadvised, too sudden”

* Theme: Love and Recklessness
* Characters: Romeo and Juliet
* Context: Juliet was obedient but true love made her rebel

“Earth hath swallow’d all my hope but she; she’s the hopeful lady of my earth”

* Theme: Family
* Characters: Juliet, Lord Capulet
* Context: Unusual for fathers to care about their daughter

“but woo her gentle Paris, get her heart”

* Theme: Family, Love
* Characters: Paris, Lord Capulet
* Context: wants him to win her over instead of the forcing her

“Too rude, too boist’rous, and it pricks like thorn”

* Theme: Love
* Character: Romeo
* Context: As the audience we know that this love isn’t real and he’s doing it for attention (courtly lover)

“sweet, sweet, sweet nurse, tell me, what says my love?”

* Theme: Love, family
* Character: Nurse, Juliet
* Context: brought up by the nurse, close bond

“these violent delights have violent ends”

* Theme: Love, Fate, Death
* Character: Friar Lawrence, Romeo
* Context: warning Romeo of their recklessness, the speed of their love, foreshadows, fated to die

“And fire-ey’d fury be my conduct now!”

* Theme: Conflict
* Character: Romeo
* Context: he’s embodied by fury and anger, not going to be nice

“Ha, banishment! Be merciful, say ‘death’”

* Theme: Love, death
* Character: Romeo and Juliet
* Context: rather be dead than be away from Juliet

“I think she will be rul’d In all respects by me; nay more, I doubt it not”

* Theme: Family, Love
* Character: Capulet
* Juliet will definitely obey him, position of power, dramatic irony,

“I would the fool were married to her grave”

* Theme: Love
* Character: Lady Capulet, Juliet
* Context: foreshadow, for being disobedient

“Out, you green-sickness carrion! out, you baggage!”

* Theme: Love
* Character: Lord Capulet
* Context: traitor to her family, not honouring her parents against religion, dragged onto the streets

“And you be mine, I’ll give you to my friend ; And you be not, hang, beg, starve, die in the streets,”

* Theme: Love
* Character: Capulet
* Context: father owns daughter,if you don’t marry Paris i will disown you, you can die for all i care, asynthetic list of verbs

“O woe! O woful, woful, woful day!”

* Theme: Love
* Character: Nurse
* Context: Juliet and Nurse have a very close bond

“then i defy you, stars!”

* Theme: Fate
* Character: Romeo
* Context: he’s going to defy the stars and kill himself, trying to go against fate

“And shake the yoke of inauspicious stars”

* Theme: Fate, Love, Death
* Character: Romeo
* Context: going to change fate and kill himself

“O happy dagger, This is thy sheath: there rust, and let me die”

* Theme: Fate, Love, Death
* Character: Romeo and Juliet
* Context: gets to be with Romeo, going to kill herself, ‘happy’- fortunate, lucky