R & J quotes

“My only love sprung from my only hate”

-Juliet I 5: doomed love, feud, juxtaposition of hate-love

“the god of my idolitary” “holy shrine” “dear saint”

-J & R: religion, blasphemy, fate

“I defy you stars!”

-R: fate, death

“O happy dagger”

-J: death, passionate love, fate

“Thou canst not teach me to forget” “did my heart love till now?”

-R: fickle love

“Young men's love lies not in their hearts, but in their eyes”

-Friar L: fickle love, gender roles

“Theses violent delights have violent ends”

-Friar L: death, fate, violence

“For this alliance may […] turn your households rancour to pure love”

-Friar L: loves power, opposition love-hate, feud

“Doth with their death bury their parents strife”

-Prologue: death, hate, feud, fate, love

“if all else fail, myself have power to die”

-Juliet III 5 : death, proto feminism, passionate love

“love devouring death do what he dare”

-R II 6 : fate, death, love, naive

“young men's love lies not in their hearts, but in their eyes”

-F.L II 3 : fickle love, masculinity, perception of love

“deny thy father and refuse thy name”

-J II 2 : identity, passionate love, hastiness

“star-crossed lovers”

-Chorus : fate, love death

“Can heaven be so envious?”

-J III 2 : power of love, divine/religion, fate

“they stumble that run fast”

-F.L II 3 : caution, hastiness, passionate love

“thy beauty hath made me effeminate”

-R II 1 : masculinity, gender roles, love

“A plague o'both your houses !”

-Mercutio III 1 : fate, death, feud, hate, violence

“Art thou a man? […] Thy tears are womanish”

-F.L : masculinity, gender roles, context, femininity