| Heartless hinds | Heartless= lacking courage, hings= female deerMale deer= heartThey are female deer lacking the protection of their harts. Tybalt thinks that Benvolio is fighting the servants but he is keeping the peace.Tybalt jumps to conclusions, rushing in without thinkingReaction= instantaneous hatred |
| Turn thee benvolio look upon thy death | Telling Benvolio to look to his death |
| Tybalt: I hate the word | He hates the idea of peace |
| Prince: that quench the fire of your pernicious rage with purple fountains issuing from your veins | Prince is tired of men who can only control/deal with their anger by using violence and making others bleed. This rhymes, shows his authority and importance |
| Benvolio: Where underneath the grove of sycamore | Romeo has been spending time in the sycamore forest because he is love sick ( amour means love in french) |
| Romeos dad: Makes himself an artificial light | Shuts himself in the darkness |
| Romeos dad: As is the bud bit with an envious worm | Romeo’s dad says romeo is like a flower bud that will not open or grow because a worm has destroyed him(Envious- malicious) |
| Benvolio: What sadness lengthens romeo’s hours | Benvolio asks romeo , shows how much sadness can affect us and as this sadness is due to love, shows the power of the emotionRomeo then says that he doesnt have a womans love (the thing that makes hours short) |
| “Loving hate” and “heavy lightness” | Oxymorons. We feel light when we know we are happy but also feel heavy knowing the happiness will end. Romeo uses these words to describe love? |
| Benvolio- Alas that love, so gentle in his view. Should be so tyrannous and rough in proof | Love at first sight isnt what it seems, love is blinding and hides the truth |
| Romeo- “Alas that love, whose view is muffled still” | Relates to how blind love is, random and cant be controlled (blindfolded cupid)Love can control people |
| Romeo- ” a choking gall, and a preserving sweet” | Love is a sweet candy you can choke on – (someghing bad from something good) Says love is a choking poison and healing sweet, contradiction shows two sides of love and the range of affect |
| “Feather of lead, bright smoke, cold fire, sick health” | Opposites- shows that love is full of opposites and cannot be understood, how can love (good) cause people to kill and be violent? |
| Romeo: “In sadness, cousin, I do love a woman” | Romeo is being sarcastic |
| “She’s fair I love” | First thing mentioned is her physical appearance, shows he doesnt know her and just loves her physically and the idea of her |
| “Is soonest hit” | Benvolio says pretty ones are the soonest “hit”. Talk about women as if they are a target, objectifying them |
Romeo and Juliet- Act one scene 1
September 2, 2019