Romeo

• his day's black fate on more days doth depend- fate


  fate - another example of his feeling it's omnipotent power and its effect on him
• unhappy fortune - fate


  exclamative - frustration at fruitless (helpless) attempts to avoid fate - fortune has positive connotations relating to money and prosperity but here is juxtaposed against melancholy
• lie with thee (juliet) tonight- fate


  verb 'lie' connotes peach and rest which shows him to be tired of constant battle with fate and is finally submitting
• for beauty, starved with her severity, / cuts beauty off from all posterity - hastiness


  emphasis on rosalines beauty shows him to be materialistic and vain - depthless and ornamental view of women depicts him as childlike and rash in his perception of love
• death prorogued, wanting of thy love- hastiness


  willing to surmount (overcome) any obstacle and would rather die than be without juliet - shows him to be extreme in the way he loves yet also highlights impulsive and rash nature - his hamartia
• thine to keep him company - hastiness


  'company' - romeo suggesting tybalt will join mercutio in death, showing not just haste in love but also violence - likely stems from patriarchal pressure men felt to be honourable and brutal in reclaiming honour if lost
• here i'll remain with the worms that are your chambermaids - hastiness


  metaphor employed is grim and eerie - shows his commitment to love in that he is willing to die - given play takes place in 3 days he is shown to be incredibly hasty and rash in commitment to love
• give me my sin again - generational feuds


  sin - implies he knows family, society and god will be disapproving and is thus unscrupulous - connotes temptation showing he is willing to fey them
• slaughtered youth - generational feuds


  talks in third person, 'youth' reminds us of young age - reminds audience his life is controlled by his parents and death directly stems from their folly
• a lightning before death! - generational feuds


  death and thus escaping burden of familial expectations makes him feel 'light' and free, thus proving immense pressure his family's feud puts on him
• for beauty, starved with her severity / cuts beauty off from all posterity - violence and the patriarchy


  lacks violent characteristics at start of play and is a Petrarchan lover, melancholic and almost feminine in use of couplets and iambic pentameter making langauge seem flowery and obsequious
• beauty hat made me effeminate - violence and the patriarchy


  shows violence to be inherently (naturally) masculine trait and implying being 'effeminate' to be an inferior trait
• reputation (is) stained - violence and the patriarchy


  idea of reputation is patriarchal concept derived from men taking pride in good reputations and acting with violence against anyone who threatens it
• have at thee - violence and the patriarchy

  shows transition he has made from being not inclined towards violence at the start of the play to being extremely violent at the end
• a right good markman - friendship


  praises benvolio by comparing him to being skilled at a conventional masculine sport and by extension compare their friendship to archery of which he calls benvolio skilled
• peace, mercutío, peace - friendship


  soothing in his tone in response to mercutio's aggressively passionate speech demonstrating how he is mercutio's foil and they counteract each other as a result
• the reason i have to love thee - friendship


  friendly towards tybalt which shows he has a masculine instinct to befriend other men his age - shows friendship to be synonymous with empathy as he is capable of being cordial towards his friend
• gentle mercutio, put thy rapier up - friendship


  'gentle' - parental, making friendship seem as close as if they were family - exacerbating devastation that catalysed romeo's violence as a result of his death