love

• Juliet is the sun


  Romeo

  he's comparing Juliet to the sun, the sun gives all life to Earth, he is saying she gives all life to Earth. Good complement as no one can own the sun and therefore, no one can own Juliet, she is unique and there is nothing remotely close to her. Good because is Elizabethan England, Women were owned by their husbands and fathers, he is giving her independence - links to star-crossed lovers
• a pair of star crossed lovers


  prologue - chorus - their lover was written in the stars, they were meant to be together from birth because of fate and astrology.
• fickle love


  Romeo says he is love with Rosaline (nun) but as soon as he see's Juliet, he says he has never felt love like this and disregards the thoughts of Rosaline, comparing her to crows
• Mercutio makes sexual puns


  'To raise a spirit in his mistress' circle'

  spirit - semen/penis

  circle - vagina

  he focuses on the physical side of love to entertain Benvolio but also to get Romeo to react
• 'I lent him eyes' - A2S2 - Romeo


  Cupid is often shown blindfolded - this suggests that love is unpredictable and doesn't follow reason
• Rome tries to treat love as a game, and uses poetry but Juliet refuses to speak in that form, she wants to be straightforward and clear about her emotions
• A3S2 - Juliet is excited to sleep with Romeo, it makes their relationship more convincing as there is desire in their love
• when Romeo finds out about Juliet's death, he is desperate and aggressive - contrasts Paris who is solemn and respectable
• Here's to my love


  Romeo's final line - A5S3 - end of his soliloquy - echoes' what Juliet says when she drink the potion ' Here's drink - I drink to thee'