| romeo feels love gives him power A2 S2 | with love’s light wings did i o’erperch these walls |
| romeo sees juliet and realises his love for Rosaline is superficial A1 S5 | did my heart love till now |
| romeo thinks juliet is so beautiful she emits light A1 S5 | o, she doth teaches the torches to burn bright |
| romeo fights to the death with tybalt A3 S1 | either thou or I, or both, must go with him |
| romeo feels manipulated by his fate and he is not responsible for killing tybalt | o, i am fortune’s fool |
| romeo feels that he is going against his fate when he goes to be with juliet A5 S1 | i defy you, stars |
| romeo would prefer death to banishment from verona (x2) A3 S3 | be merciful, say deaththere is no world without verona walls, but purgatory, torture, hell itself |
| romeo feels indebted with his life to the capulets because of his love to Juliet A1 S5 | my life is my foes debt |
| romeo feels so drawn to Juliet and dictated by love that he feels he cannot leave A2 S1 | can i go forward when my heart is here? |
| juliet feels she will die if romeo is already married – foreshadowing as well A1 S5 also pairing the idea of death and love together as key themes | my grave is likely to be my wedding bed |
| romeo fears that going to the ball will lead to bad consequences – sense of foreboding and shows him becoming a more rational thinker A1 S5 | some consequence, yet hanging in the stars, shall bitterly begin |
| juliet feels a sense of foreboding the last time she sees romeo A3 S5 | as one dead in the bottom of a tomb |
| benvolio tries to keep the peace A1 S1 | i do but keep the peace, put up thy sword/ Or manage it to part these men with me |
| tybalt hates peace A1 S1 | talk of peace? i hate the word! |
| sexual innuendo demonstrating male aggression A1 S1 | thrust his maids to the wall |
| lord capulet is controlling over his daughter – he talks to Paris about marrying Juliet A3S4 | she is ruled in all aspects by me |
| Sampson is joking about raping the Montague women A1S1 | the heads of the maidens, or their maidenheads |
| Romeo and Juliet’s love is being presented as something decided by god A1 S5 | refers to Juliet’s hand as a ‘holy shrine’refers to their kiss as ‘holy palmer’s kiss’ |
| Romeo is presented as a Petrarchan – poetic, melancholy and using sonnets A1S1 | ‘O loving hate’ ‘O heavy lightness, serious vanity’ |
| Juliet wants Romeo to be truthful if he loves her or not A2S2 | if thou dost love pronounce it faithfully |
| Juliet will give up her name if it means marrying Romeo – she is conscious of the fact she is going against her family A2S2 | I’ll no longer be a capulet |
| Tybalt thinks that to honour his family he needs to kill Romeo – theme of violence being excused as family honour A1S5 context of honour in elizabethan period | by the stock and honour of my kin to strike him dead I hold it not a sin |
| personification Romeo compares Juliet to the sun goes against elizabethan cliche of comparing her to the moon (x2) A2S2 expresses his captivation with her beauty | It is the east and Juliet is the sunArise, fair sun and kill the envious moon |
| Juliet worries that their love is moving too fast rule of three- emphatic- realistic | too rash, too unadvis’d, too sudden |
| lady capulet asks the nurse to come back – she is an ineffectual and cold mother | nurse, come back again, I have remember’d me |
| Juliet is eager for night to come so she can have the privacy and freedom | spread thy close-curtain, love-performing Night |
| Lord Capulet threatens Juliet if she does not marry Paris he will abandon her he compares her to a corpse – role of a woman | ‘out, you green sickness carrion! out you baggage”hang, beg, starve, die in the streets’ |
| the friar is determined to do what is right and end the feud between the families A2S4 | to turn your household’s rancour to pure love |
| the friar thinks that god approves of their marriage – so it doesn’t matter what the families think A2S6 | so smile the heavens upon this holy act |
romeo and juliet
December 14, 2019