7 KEY QUOTES

• i am fortunes fool- fate


  nihilistic (meaningless of life) reaction on audience in sense that romeos actions are predetermined and doomed for death - control is illusion
• i defy you, stars- fate


  personal pronoun 'you' - as if they would reply, paints his mental state as disintegrating but also shows vast impact 'stars' had on him - feel like a tangible force that he can address
• one writ with me in sour misfortune's book- fate


  misfortune - surmises that bad luck is product of fate and thus avoids all blame for circumstances which are influenced by his character as well - uses fate as an excuse for misfortune which is partially influenced by him too
• there lies more peril in (her) eye / than twenty of their swords - hastiness


  implies love to be dangerous, capable of causing far more pain than any physical weapon - has a distorted, extreme view of love and shows him to be hasty in the way he loves in that he is willing to sacrifice his entire life for a woman
• for stony limits cannot hold love out - generational feuds


  stony limits - metaphor for families preventing them being together - romeo dispels any notion he is not willing to clear any wall for her and by extension is willing to ignore his family feud to be with her - generational feuds are showed to cause much unnecessary collateral damage
• thus with a kiss i die - generational feuds


  characters place high value on family and believe it to be more important than any other relationship - romeo juxtaposes and values love first - syntactical closeness of 'kiss' and 'die' show him to value juliet over family which shows generational feuds create gaps between parents and kids who are naive to origin
• a madman's mercy bid (him) run away - violence and the patriarchy


  shows violence associated with 'madman' -madness reinforced by speaking in third person, demonstrates violence is accompanied with deterioration of one's mental faculties