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

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“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

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2

“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

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3

“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

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4

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

  • Theme: Family and Duty

  • Characters: Juliet and Lady Capulet

  • Context: Formal relationship with parents (nurse)

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5

“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

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6

“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

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7

“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

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8

“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

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9

“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

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10

“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)

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11

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

  • Theme: Love, family

  • Character: Nurse, Juliet

  • Context: brought up by the nurse, close bond

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12

“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

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13

“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

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14

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

  • Theme: Love, death

  • Character: Romeo and Juliet

  • Context: rather be dead than be away from Juliet

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15

“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,

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16

“I would the fool were married to her grave”

  • Theme: Love

  • Character: Lady Capulet, Juliet

  • Context: foreshadow, for being disobedient

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17

“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

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“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

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19

“O woe! O woful, woful, woful day!”

  • Theme: Love

  • Character: Nurse

  • Context: Juliet and Nurse have a very close bond

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20

“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

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21

“And shake the yoke of inauspicious stars”

  • Theme: Fate, Love, Death

  • Character: Romeo

  • Context: going to change fate and kill himself

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22

“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

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