THEME
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QUOTATION
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WHY IS IT SIGNIFICANT?
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ANY TECHNIQUES?
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LOVE/LUST
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-Act 1,Scene 1, Line 181
- Act 2, Scene 2, Line 155
- Act 1, Scene 2, Line 153
- Act 1, Scene 5, line 130
-Act 2, Scene 2, Line 1-24
Act 5, Scene 3, Line 119-120
-Act 5, Scene 1, Line 85-86
-Act 4, Scene 1 Line 77- 88
Act 3, Scene 5, Line 1-35
Act 3, Scene 5, Line 43-59
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- Romeo talks about his pain for Rosaline or was it lust? Makes the audience seems as if he only wanted her as she was something he couldn’t have. Quickly changes from Rosaline to Juliet
- portrays how strong the love is
- Portrays how love is torturous
-Portrays how their love is so strong and even though there is a family feud it doesn’t bother them
- Romeo is studying Juliet and lusting over her, desperate to speak to her because of her beauty. Questions whether is it more lust than love?
- Romeo proves his immense love for Juliet drinking to her as he takes his final breath.
- Romeo proves there is no question when it comes to Juliet as if she is dead than so shall he be
- Juliet says she’d rather kill herself than marry Paris as he is not Romeo
The morning after their wedding night and Romeo and Juliet say goodbye as he has to leave. Romeo and Juliet talk about how they shall do anything to still be together
-The last time Romeo and Juliet see each other ‘alive’
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- uses binary opposition or contrast and juxtaposition as love and hate are two different things and here one is privileged over another
- Metaphor, Simile and personifies the moon
Euphemism is used as Romeo refers to the vile and poison as something good and relieving
-The contrast between the sun and the moon is emphasized and death is again personified by Romeo as he talks about how he has fulfilled all his wishes by being with Juliet
Foreshadowing and irony as Romeo talks about how he would die to be with her
-Hyperboles through out the scene
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COMMUNICATION
Act 5, Scene 2, 14- “I could not send it- here it is again”
This quote is significant as it is the important moment when Friar John was unable to send the letter and the whole plane falls to pieces due to a serious miscommunication incident.
Act 3, Scene 2, 45- “Hath Romeo slain himself? Say thou but ‘ay’ And that bare vowel ‘I’ shall poison more than the death-darting eye of a cockatrice”
This is after Romeo killed Tybalt and the nurse is trying to inform Juliet of the news. Due to her communication issues, the nurse does not immediately get her message across as Juliet thinks that Romeo has died but he has not. There is use of imagery, hyperbole and foreshadowing.
Act 4, Scene 1, 26-
Juliet- “I will confess to you that I love him.”
Paris- “So will ye, I am sure that you love me.”
Paris thinks that Juliet is saying the she loves him but Juliet is really confessing her love for Romeo. There for there was a communication problem, but it was not an accident as Juliet meant for this to happen. This has good language choice, there is a double meaning and it makes the audience very privileged.
Hate:
Quotation:
· ‘Two households, both alike in dignity,
In fair Verona, where we lay our scene,
From ancient grudge break to new mutiny,
Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean.
From forth the fatal loins of these two foes
A pair of star-cross'd lovers take their life;
Whole misadventured piteous overthrows
Do with their death bury their parents' strife.
The fearful passage of their death-mark'd love,
And the continuance of their parents' rage,
Which, but their children's end, nought could remove,
Is now the two hours' traffic of our stage.’
Prologue.
Why is it significant?
· from the play's beginning that love and hatred are intertwined throughout Romeo and Juliet. Here, the Chorus (kind of like a narrator) tells us up front that, over the course of the play, "two households," or families in Verona, are going to get caught up (again) in a long standing feud, or "ancient grudge." Not only that, but things are going to get "bloody" when their children (the kids who came from their parents' "fatal loins") fall in love and then later "take their life." We also know that the deaths of the two "star-crossed lovers" will put an end to their families' hatred.
Technique:
· Imagery
· Language choices
· Metaphorical
Quotation:
ROMEO
· “O me! What fray was here?
Yet tell me not, for I have heard it all.
Here's much to do with hate, but more with love.
Why, then, O brawling love! O loving hate!
O any thing, of nothing first create!
O heavy lightness! serious vanity!
Mis-shapen chaos of well-seeming forms!
Feather of lead, bright smoke, cold fire,
sick health!
Still-waking sleep, that is not what it is!
This love feel I, that feel no love in this.
Dost thou not laugh?”
act 1, scene 1, line 164.
Why is it significant?/ techniques.
· Romeo is a bit of a drama queen when he spots blood from the recent street brawl between the Capulet and Montague servants. He dizzies himself here by relating the extremes of hate and love. We should also point out that the phrases, "O brawling love! O loving hate!", are perfect examples of "oxymoron." An "oxymoron," by the way, is the combination of two terms ordinarily seen as opposites.
Quotation:
TYBALT
· “Uncle, this is a Montague, our foe,
A villain that is hither come in spite,
To scorn at our solemnity this night.”
Act 1, Scene 5, Line 60.
Why is it significant?
· Hatred makes Tybalt's enemies appear as one-dimensional Montagues. He cannot see them as individual people or imagine them outside the context of the feud. It is significant because it emphasizes the hate between the two families.
Techniques:
· Language choices
Quotation:
· ROMEO
· “Spakest thou of Juliet? how is it with her?
Doth she not think me an old murderer,
Now I have stain'd the childhood of our joy
With blood removed but little from her own?
Where is she? and how doth she? and what says
My conceal'd lady to our cancell'd love?”
Act 3, Scene 3, Line 93.
Why is it significant?
· Romeo worries that his murder of Tybalt, an act of hatred, may have destroyed Juliet's love for him.
Techniques:
· Imagery
TYBALT
This, by his voice, should be a Montague.
Fetch me my rapier, boy. What dares the slave
Come hither, cover'd with an antic face,
To fleer and scorn at our solemnity?
Now, by the stock and honour of my kin,
To strike him dead, I hold it not a sin.
(1.5.1)
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Why is it signifiant?
When Tybalt discovers that Romeo has crashed the Capulet's party, his first response is to start a sword fight. Tybalt, who is easily provoked, hates the Montagues so much that he thinks that any insult by them should be punished by death. This quote helps to show the audience the stupidity behind all the hatred.
Techniques? Language choice, word choices show how angry Tybalt is, and how he feels that the Montague's are below him when he calls him a slave.
JULIET
My only love sprung from my only hate!
Too early seen unknown, and known too late!
Prodigious birth of love it is to me,
That I must love a loathed enemy.
(1.5.10)
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Why is it significant?
Juliet is devastated when she learns that her "only love" (that would be Romeo) has "sprung from [her] only hate" (is the son of her family's only enemies, the Montagues). Romeo's response to the news that Juliet is a Capulet is pretty similar. He says "O dear account! My life is my foe's debt!" (1.5.8).
Techniques? Binary Opposition (love & hate are completely different) Love wins out of the love & hate.
BENVOLIO
I pray thee, good Mercutio, let's retire:
The day is hot, the Capulets abroad,
And, if we meet, we shall not scape a brawl;
For now, these hot days, is the mad blood stirring.
(3.1.1)
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Why is it significant? Benvolio, who always seems to play the role of peacekeeper in the play, wisely notes that a "brawl" will be inevitable if they meet up with the Capulets. According to Benvolio, violence is always inflamed by the summer's heat. This quote helps to show the audience the stupidity behind all the hatred.
Techniques? personification, personifying blood when he says; is the mad blood stirring.
Quotations
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Why is it significant?
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Is there a specific technique?
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Act 1, Sc 5, 118
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Juliet has control of Romeo’s life now even though she doesn’t know it
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foreshadow
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Act 2, Sc 3, 97
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The relationship is going so fast that its bound to end badly and quickly.
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foreshadow
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Act 3, Sc 1, 1-4
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Violence is bound to happen between the family’s due to the feud so they want to avoid a fight
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Foreshadow to Mercuito’s death
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Act 3, Sc 1, 63
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Blames Romeo for intervening the fight. He curses the families for his death.
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Hyperbole, characterization
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Act 3, Sc 2, 38-40
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Nurse babble on about Tybalt being dead and Juliet thinks its Romeo that is dead. Shows the emotional connection between the nurse and the family.
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Could be slight foreshadow as it is confusing at first who is dead and it then gives us a link to the possibility of Romeo being dead.
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Act 5, Sc 1, 6-11
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Romeo had a dream that Juliet found him dead; she kissed him and then revived him.
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Foreshadow to his death and the final kiss.
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Act 3, Sc 5, 17
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Romeo would rather die than be forced to live another day without her in his life.
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Foreshadow, characterization, Language choice, irony
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Act 5, Sc 1, 86
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Romeo says the apothecary
Has not sold him poison but he has given him the true poison of money and greed.
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Irony, metaphor, binary opposition, imagery
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Act 5, Sc 1, 17-23
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Balthasar tells Romeo of Juliet’s death and asks forgiveness for the bad news.Death the result of miscommunication
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Euphemism, imagery.
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Act 5, Sc 3, 71
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Romeo and Paris fight signaling the end is near. The violence is caused dues to a misunderstanding between characters.
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Act 5, Sc 3, 121-122
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Romeo’s death from the drugs. He was willing to die for Juliet so they could be together in heaven.
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Personification, imagery, euphemism
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Act 5, Sc 3, 177- 178
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Juliet stabs herself with Romeo’s dagger and dies on him. She looks as death as a happy thing to go to her husband Romeo.
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Oxymoron, Irony, Hyperbole
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Act 5, Sc 3, 219- 220
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Romeo’s mother dies due to grief from hearing Romeo was banished. The impact on the family due to the prince’s decision.
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Irony, euphemism, language choice
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Quotation
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Why is it significant?
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Is there a specific technique?
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Act 3 Scene 2 37-39
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-Juliet is so confused that how she should feel towards Tybalt's death and Romeo's banishment.
-The confusion of the nurse speaking and say "he's dead, he's killed" and Juliet think straight away that it is Romeo how is dead.
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Hyperbole- the exaggerated emotions of the nurse make Juliet feel confused and reflect to Romeo
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Technique
Language choice
Foreshadowing
Characterisation
Personification
Metaphor
Simile
Hyperbole
Euphemism
Imagery
Irony
Juxtaposition
Binary opposition
Quotation
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Why Is it significant?
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Technique
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But soft! What light through yonder window breaks?
It is the east, and Juliet is the sun.
Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon
- 2,2,2-4
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Because it is after Romeo's first sighting of Juliet and he is already linking fate to his love for her. It is also representing true pure love between Romeo and Juliet. Juliet is light for him bringing him out of the darkness.
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Metaphor – Juliet is the sun
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This day's black fate on more days doth depend,
This but begins, the woe other must end.
-3,1,79-80
O, I am fortunes fool
-3,1,97
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This is saying that Mercutio's death is a black fate and Romeo blames it on the stars. It won't end in Mercutio's death, others will die.
He is being played by fate.
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Forshadowing – saying others will die.
Personification – talking about fate like it is a person.
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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 the night, and pay no worship to the garish sun.
-3,2,22-25
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Juliet is referencing to the stars and the spiritual connection between Romeo and Juliet.
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Can heaven be so envious?
-3,2,41
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You can see the faith she puts into faith and heaven wants romeo for itself.
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Pesonification
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Quotation
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Why is it Significant
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Specific Technique
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Act 5, Scene 1, Line 24
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This quotation is significant because it shows how Romeo is angry at the stars because he thinks that everything is written in the stars. It shows that he does not take much responsibility in his actions and leaves it all up to fate.
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The technique that is used is personification, as he refers to the stars and fate as a person that is playing and taunting him.
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Act 3, Scene 5, Line 59
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Juliet is asking fate to be fickle and take Romeo away, but then bring him back to her. It shows the amount of trust and faith they put in fate to bring them back to each other.
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Irony, as Juliet is asking fate to be fickle when in fact most of the time fickle is a negative connotation.
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Act 3, Scene 1, Line 97
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Romeo is again thinking that fate has played him and made him a fool. It is also reinforcing the idea that his life is ruled by fate.
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Personification as he is referring to fate being a person that is messing with him and his life.
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Act 5, Scene 2, Line 17
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Friar Lawrence is referring to the fact that he has had a bad fortune. Even though he believes in God he still refers to fate. This reinforces the idea that fate is very important and a vital theme within the play.
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Quotation Why is it significant?
Act 5, Scene 3, 303-304 Not just affecting two families
Act 2, Scene 2, 40-41 Family feuding
Act 2, Scene 3, 94-95 Bring families together
Act 1, Scene 3, 101 Does as her family wants
Act 3, Scene 5, 146-149 Juliet not obeying her father
Act 4, Scene 2, 14-20 Obey her father from now on
Act 3, Scene 1, 39-42 Won't hurt family
Act 5, Scene 3, 219-220 Died from loss of son
Act 5, Scene 3, 300-304 Both quarreling families are to blame and the deaths have punished all
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