‘a plague on both your houses’ | Mercutio curses the two households and their feud. |
‘Two households, both alike in dignity’ | The Montagues and Capulets are big and important families in Verona, hence the ongoing feud. |
‘ancient grudge’ | The feud between the two families has been going on for a long time. |
‘disobedient wretch’ | Lord Capulet berates his daughter for not obeying his rules. She is required to be ‘obedient’ to her father. |
”Peace, fools!’ | Benvolio tries to be the peacemaker in Romeo and Juliet. |
‘Deny thy father, and refuse thy name.’ | Juliet wishes that Romeo wasn’t a Montague – it conflicts with her family loyalty. |
‘Turn and draw.’ | Tybalt is constantly starting fights – he is aggressive and violent. |
‘That villain cousin would have killed my husband.’ | Juliet is constantly conflicted between her feelings for Romeo and loyalty to her family. |
‘Do you bite your thumb at us, sir?’ | The play opens with a fight between the Montagues and Capulets, reinforcing to the audience the importance of the feud to the play as a whole. |
‘O brawling love! O loving hate!’ | Romeo uses oxymorons to discuss how closely linked love and conflict can be. |
Romeo and Juliet – Conflict Quotes
August 19, 2019