Romeo and Juliet

• Romeo Act 1 Scene 1: 'Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs'

  • Saying love is intangible
  • Its made from dissapointment
• Romeo Act 1 Scene 1: 'She'll not be hit, With Cupids arrow she hath Dian's wit'

  • Dian refers to the goddess of virginity
  • Unrequited love
  • Refers to Rosaline
  • Chastity: Rosaline is refusing to engage in romantic activities
• Romeo Act 1 Scene 1: 'Thou cans't not teach me to forget'

  • Dramatic irony: We know he will fall for Juliet
  • Foreshadows his fickleness
• Juliet Act 1 Scene 3: 'It is an honor i dream not of'

  • Talking about marriage
  • She respects the idea of marriage but does not wish to engage in it
  • Ironic: we know she will get married
• Nurse Act 1 Scene 3: 'Thou wast the prettiest babe i e'er nursed'

  • Shows maternal love for Juliet
  • she sees Juliet as the child she once looked after
• Romeo Act 1 Scene 4: 'Is love a tender thing? It is too rough'

  • Questioning the meaning behind love
  • Love isn't what he thought it would be
• Mercutio Act 1 Scene 4: 'If love be rough with you, be rough with love'

  • Double meaning: Refers to the sexual nature of love
  • Also refers to how love can be 'Rough' the reason behind Romeo's sadness
• Romeo Act 1 Scene 4: 'The game was ne'er so fair, and I am done'

  • shows his immaturity as he sees love as a game
  • He is giving up quickly
• Romeo Act 1 Scene 5: 'What lady's that, which doth enrich the hand of yonder knight?'

  • Captivated by Juliets beauty
  • Enrich: interested in her worth rather than her personality
• Tybalt Act 1 Scene 5: 'a villain doth come here in spite'

  • Thinks Romeo is there to cause trouble
  • Villain: sees romeo as a villain and himself as a hero
• Romeo Act 1 Scene 5: 'My lips, two blushing pilgrims ready stand'

  • Immature: Wants to kiss Juliet despite them only having just met
  • Pilgrims: sees Juliet as holy/ to be worshipped
• Juliet Act 1 Scene 5: 'Good pilgrim, you do wrong your hands too much'

  • Mature: denies his approaches
  • 'Good pilgrim': plays along with romeo - endearing term
• Juliet Act 1 Scene 5: 'Come hither, Nurse'

  • Nurse is a confidante
  • Maternal bond
• Juliet Act 1 Scene 5: 'My only love sprung from my only hate!....That i must love a loathed enemy'

  • Oxymoron: shows inner conflict
  • Already refers to romeo as her 'love' despite only just meeting
  • 'Must' infers that she has no choice
• Romeo Act 2 Scene 2: 'O speak again bright angel'

  • Semantic field of religion: she is worthy of worship
  • still only focused on her appearance
• Juliet Act 2 Scene 2: 'Tis but thy name that is my enemy'

  • Society keeps them apart
  • Shakespeare indirectly calling out feuds that have no meaning
• Romeo Act 2 Scene 2: 'My name, dear saint, is hateful to myself'

  • Romeo es Dramatic
  • Semantic field of religion: sees his name as sin
• Romeo Act 2 Scene 2: 'With love's light wings did I o'erperch these walls'

  • Saying love will protect
  • Now describes love as 'light' when previously he described it as a 'heavy burden'
• Romeo Act 1 Scene 4: 'Under loves heavy burden do i sink'

  • Dramatic
  • Love is not joyful it is pain
• Juliet Act 2 Scene 2: "O swear not by the moon th'inconsistant moon"

  • telling him not to be fickle
  • Repeating 'Th'inconsistant moon': Worried his love will not remain. She is desperate for his love
• Juliet Act 2 Scene 2: 'And all my fortunes as thy foot i'll lay'

  • Fortunes: she's willing to give him her life & body
  • Devoted to him
  • no longer thinking maturely
• Friar Lawrence: 'virtue itself turns vice being misapplied'

  • Good can become bad
  • Foreshadowing Romeo and Juliets relationship
• Romeo Act 2 Scene 3: 'with Rosaline, my ghostly father? no; I have forgot that name and that name's woe'

  • My ghostly father: Paternal relationship
  • Saying he has forgotten Rosaline and the pain she brought him
  • Immature: he just met Juliet
  • Fickle: he was so hung up on Rosaline and now he has forgotten her
• Friar Lawrence Act 2 Scene 3: 'Young men's love then lies Not truly with their hearts but in their eyes.'

  • Paternal: Scolding Romeo for being fickle
  • Wise: men only love based on looks
  • Saying Romeo's love for Rosaline was shallow and untrue
• Friar Lawrence: Act 2 Scene 3: 'Wisely and slow, they stumble that run fast'

  • Paternal: warning Romeo
  • Wise: knows that if romeo rushes things will end badly
  • Foreshadowing: tragic ending to the play
• Mercutio Act 2 Scene 4: 'Ah, the immortal 'passado', the 'punto reverso', the 'hay'!

  • immature: Mocking Tybalt
  • Comparing the way he fights to dancing
  • immortal: saying Tybalt thinks he is of higher status
• Nurse Act 2 Scene 4: 'If ye should lead her in a fool's paradise, as they say, it were a very gross kind of behaviour'

  • Maternal: Protective of Juliet
  • Speaks in prose due to lower status
  • Warning Romeo not to hurt Juliet
• Romeo Act 2 Scene 4: 'Commend me to thy lady'

  • Devoted: wants Juliet to have a good image of him
  • Wants the Nurse to speak highly of him
• Juliet Act 2 Scene 5: 'O God, she comes! O honey Nurse, what news?'

  • O god: nervous
  • 'Honey nurse': maternal bond/fond terms
  • 'What news?': Nurse is a confidante - she is worried for what Romeo said
• Romeo Act 2 Scene 6: 'Then love-devouring Death do what he dare, it is enough I may call her mine.'

  • He is happy to have Juliet as his wife
  • Death cannot stop their love - Dramatic Irony
  • 'love-devouring Death' - personifies death, Death is the destruction of love
• Friar Lawrence Act 2 Scene 6: 'These violent delights have violent ends'

  • Wise: worried they will have a tragic ending
  • Foreshadowing the end of the play