6 KEY QUOTES

• end art mine eyes, than (her father's) consent gives strength to make it fly - submissive women and the patriarchy


  rhyming couplets 'eye' and 'fly' puts emphasis on phrase, later turning out to be untrue - juliet appears from start to be typically passive and obedient aristocratic daughter doing as her father pleases but flourishes in her language and subtle disagreements with her parents foreshadow her later betrayal of their will
• swear not by the moon, the inconstant moon - folly of youth


  implies the moon is inconsistent and not something she would want love to be synonymous with - she has set standards and not too quick to settle despite hastiness - moon represents virginity and is associated with goddess diana, shows awareness of value of virginity and thus consequences of rashness
• proud can i never be of what i hate - juliet change


  juxtaposition between 'proud' and 'hate' and syntactical closeness makes it so even the language is demonstrating change she has undergone - she becomes more assertive
• dove-feathered raven - conflict and obligation


  oxymoron demonstrates conflict she feels between hating romeo because he slained tybalt but also feeling immense love for him - notable point of comparison for juliet's transition from passive to violent - can only be violent verbally as she is constrained with femininity within patriarchal society
• harsh discords and unpleasing sharps - conflict and obligation


  exclamative, sharp tone paints her as frustrated with obligation that romeo must leave and must return back to her parents - nature, with which she has created such elegant metaphors in the past is another reinforcer of her obligation and the conflict she feels between having to let him leave but wanting him to stay
• serpent heart hid with a flowering face - love


  juxtaposes his temperament (nature) against his looks - semantic field of nature with serpent and flowering - shows love to be complex and involve a lot of sacrifice