QUOTES PART 1

"Thy love did read by rote and could not spell."

Friar Laurence, immaturity, superficial love, criticism

"Wisely and slow; they stumble that run fast."

Friar Laurence, caution, foreshadowing, haste

"These violent delights have violent ends And in their triumph die, like fire and powder, Which as they kiss consume"

Friar Laurence, foreshadowing, destructive passion, violence

"come what sorrow can, It cannot countervail the exchange of joy That one short minute gives me in her sight:"

Romeo, impulsiveness, devotion, dramatic irony

"For now, these hot days, is the mad blood stirring."

Benvolio, foreshadowing, violence, heat imagery

"O calm, dishonourable, vile submission!"

Mercutio, honour, masculinity, conflict

"O sweet Juliet, thy beauty hath made me effeminate, and in my temper softened valour's steel."

Romeo, masculinity, love versus violence, self-criticism

"O, I am fortune's fool!"

Romeo, fate, helplessness, tragic downfall

"Come, Night, come, Romeo, come thou day in night."

Juliet, desire, anticipation, light and dark imagery

"I have bought the mansion of a love, But not yet possessed it, and though I am sold, Not yet enjoyed."

Juliet, anticipation, marriage imagery, frustration

"O serpent heart, hid with a flow'ring face!"

Juliet, appearance versus reality, betrayal, deception

"Come, death, and welcome! Juliet wills it so."

Romeo, devotion, fatalism, love stronger than life

"I think she will be ruled In all respects by me."

Capulet, patriarchy, control, parental authority

"You shall bear the burden soon at night."

Nurse, sexual innuendo, fertility, marriage expectations

"fettle your fine joints 'gainst Thursday next, To go with Paris to Saint Peter's Church, Or I will drag thee on a hurdle thither."

Capulet, threats, control, patriarchy

"And you be mine, I'll give you to my friend."

Capulet, ownership, objectification, patriarchy

"Alack, alack, that heaven should practise stratagems Upon so soft a subject as myself"

Juliet, victimhood, fate, suffering

"Thy face is mine, and thou hast slander'd it."

Paris, ownership, patriarchy, appearance

"I have learnt me to repent the sin of disobedient opposition"

Juliet, deception, obedience, dramatic irony

"Death is my son-in-law, Death is my heir."

Capulet, personification, grief, dramatic irony

"Thou art not conquered, beauty's ensign yet is crimson in thy lips and in thy cheeks."

Romeo, appearance versus reality, dramatic irony, beauty

"shall I believe That unsubstantial death is amorous, And that the lean abhorred monster keeps Thee here in dark to be his paramour?"

Romeo, personification of death, jealousy, death as a lover

"O, here Will I set up my everlasting rest, And shake the yoke of inauspicious stars From this world-wearied flesh"

Romeo, fate, defiance, suicide

"See, what a scourge is laid upon your hate, That heaven finds means to kill your joys with love."

Prince, consequences of hatred, divine punishment, responsibility

"when he shall die, Take him and cut him out in little stars, And he will make the face of heaven so fine That all the world will be in love with night And pay no worship to the garish sun."

Juliet, celestial imagery, idealisation, eternal love

"The brightness of her cheek would shame those stars, As daylight doth a lamp"

Romeo, hyperbole, celestial imagery, beauty