Romeo

• Sensitive

  "Is love a tender thing? It is too rough, too rude, too boisterous and it pricks like thorn"
• Love


  "It is the east, and Juliet is the sun"-the comparison to the sun implies hope and attraction, he is guided by her and he becomes obsessed. the sun rises and the sun sets foreshadowing how their relationship will go. starts with light and ends being lost in the darkness.
• Love

  "O brawling love O loving hate"
• Love

  "Here lies Juliet and her beauty makes this vault a feasting presence full of light"
• love

  "Juliet has soften'd me"
• conflict

  "Villain am I none"
• love

  "Did my heart love til now? I never saw true beauty till this night"
• love

  "The brightness of those cheeks would shame those stars"
• love

  "that which we call a rose by any other word would smell as sweet"-rose links to his initial love Rosaline, the flower of love, however touching its thorns can lead to pain so could symbolise the pain Romeo goes through by being in love.

  also shows Romeo is attracted to Juliet for her looks which is why he doesn't get hurt when he first sees her
• love-used for every relationship

  "love is heavy and light, bright and dark, hot and cold, sick and healthy, asleep and awake, its everything except what it is"

  love is an ongoing oxymoron throughout the play, love betrays you

  suggests everything has double meaning
• fate


  "i defy you stars"-stars are a symbol of God, Romeo tries to defy fate, shows love makes Romeo believe he is God