| is there no pity sitting in the clouds? | – juliet, personificationgreek tragedy, play controlled by 3 “fates” |
| some consequence yet hanging in the stars | – romeo, fortune |
| i am fortunes fool | – romeo, realises that he as a pawn |
| o unhappy fortune | – friar, fortune |
| fate has the steerage of my course and directs my sail | – romeo, sea imagery for fate |
| poison is his “desperate pilot” | – romeo, sea imagery for fate |
| god joined my heart and romeo’s, thou our hands | – juliet, religion and friar |
| Death lies on her like an untimely frostUpon the sweetest flower of all the field.Flower as she was, deflowered by him.Death is my son-in-law | – capulet objectifies juliet in her death |
| for men as old as we to keep the peace | – capulet on age and violence |
| My child is yet a stranger in the worldripe to be a bride | – capulet about juliet to be too young to marry |
| for you and i are past our dancing days | – capulet to a friendironic, too old to be dancing but young enough to fight? |
| draw thy toolnaked weapon | – phallic imagery for weaponry = masculinity |
| calm dishonourable, vile submission | – mercutio uses emotive adjectives and triadic structure |
| peace? i hate the word, as i hate hell | – tybalt, religion for violence |
| but old folks, many feign as they were dead, unwieldily, slowly, heavy and pale as lead | – juliet, old people lack speed |
| ancient damnation | – juliet – blasphemy agains elderly |
| henceforth i am never ruled by you | – juliet to capulet, disobedience |
| had she affections and warm youthful blood, she would be as swift in motion as a ball | – juliet, nurses age |
| you men, you beasts | – prince, dehumanisation |
| honour of my skin, to strike him dead i hold it not a sin | – tybalt, family honour, blasphemy |
| turn your households rancour to pure love | – friar lawrence, good will and iroy |
| These hot days, is the mad blood stirring | – transferred epithet benvolio and anger |
| my only love sprung from my only hate | – juliet uses oxymoron to show inner conflict between love and hate |
| i have stained the childhood of our joy | – rome after killing tybalt, youth and innocence |
| what a scrooge is laid upon your hate, that heaven finds means to kill your joys with love | – prince, religions role in hate |
| o brawling love, o loving hate | – romeo uses oxymoron for inner conflict |
| if he be married, my grave is like my wedding bed | – juliet foreshaddows |
romeo and juliet quotes
December 24, 2019