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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
“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
