| Act 5Romeo | pg.676,lines 6-7″ I dreamt my lady came and found me dead (Strange dream that gives a dead man leave to think!)”meaning: Foreshadowing. Romeo dreamt that Juliet found him dead. |
| Act 5Romeo | pg.676,line 24″is it e’en so? Then i defy you, stars!”meaning: Romeo will rebel against fate |
| Act 5Balthasar | pg.676,lines 27-29″ I do beseech you, sir, have patience.Your looks are pale and wild and do importSome misadventure.”meaning: Balthasar expresses concern for Romeo. He is afraid Romeo will hurt himself |
| Act 5Apothecary | pg.678 ,lines 75″ My poverty but nor my will consents.”meaning: the selling of poison is illegal. The apothecary agrees to sell it to Romeo only because he desperately needs the money. |
| Act 5Paris | pg.680 ,lines 49-51″This is that banish’d haughty Montague That murd’red my love’s cousin- with which grief It is supposed the fair creature died.”Meaning: Paris recognizes Romeo as Tybalt’s murderer. He blames Romeo for causing the grief that is blamed for Juliet’s death. |
| Act 5paris | pg. 682,lines 72-73″0, I am slain ! If thou be merciful,Open the tomb, lay me with Juliet.”Meaning: Romeo has killed Paris.Paris asks to be buried with Juliet, his would-be bride. |
| Act 5Romeo | pg.683,lines 92-93″ Death, that hath suck’ll the honey of thy breath ,Hath had no power yet upon thy beauty.”Meaning: Irony. Romeo says that Juliet does not look dead; the audience knows that she is not dead. The irony increases the sense of tragedy and suspense. |
| Act 5Montague | pg.687,lines 210-212″ Alas, my liege, my wife is dead tonight!Grief of my son’s exile hath stopp’d her breath.What further woe conspires against mine age?” meaning: Lady Montague has died from the grief over Romeo’s exile. |
| Act 5Balthasar | pg.689,lines 272-273″I brought my master news of Juliet’s death;And then in post he came from Mantua”meaning: Balthasar explains to the Prince that he told Romeo that Juliet is dead, then Romeo hurried back to Verona. |
| Act 5Prince | pg. 689 ,lines 295″ All are punish’d.”meaning: everyone has lost someone they love. so they all are punished by those deaths |
| Act 5Capulet | pg. 689 ,lines 296-298″ 0 brother Montague, give me thy hand.This is my daughter’s jointure, for no more Can I demand.”meaning: Juliet’s legacy will be peace between the families |
| Act 5montague | pg. 689,lines 299( for I will..””But I can give thee more;For I will raise her statue in pure gold,”meaning: Lord Montague will honor Juliet’s love and faithfulness by erecting a gold statue of her, |
| Act 5Prince | pg.690 ,lines 308-310″ Some shall be pardon’d, and some punished; For never was a story of more woe Than this of Juliet and her Romeo.”meaning: Some people will be pardoned. Others will be punished. There never was a story more full of pain the that of Romeo and Juliet. |
| Act 5Prince | pg.689 ,lines 291-293″ Where be these enemies? Capulet, Montague,See what a scourge is laid upon your hate,That heaven finds means to kill your joys with love.”meaning: The Prince points out the tragic results of the feud between Montagues and Capulets |
LA. Romeo and Juliet. act 5 quotes
August 30, 2019