Juliet

• "My only love sprung from my only hate"


  Act 1, scene 5 - Juliet realises Romeo is a Montague
• "What's in a name?...a rose by any other name would smell as sweet"


  Act 2, scene 2 - a name is irrelevant, it's what's on the inside that counts, shows family vs person and inner vs outer identity
• "I drink to thee"


  Act 4, scene 3 - Juliet toasts the potion to Romeo, dedicates her life to him
• "Oh happy dagger"


  Act 5, scene 3 - Juliet shows joy at death
• "It is an honour I dream not of"


  Act 1, scene 3 - Juliet's independence and maturity in knowing that she doesn't want to get married

  Honour - recognises it's significance but has the maturity to decline

  Unusual for women to speak their mind - strong character
• "Ay pilgrim, lips that they must use in prayer"


  Act 1, scene 5 - uses religious imagery to emphasise Juliet's purity and innocence, the importance of religion at the time highlights Juliet's importance to Romeo

  Kissing before marriage would have been outrageous so putting it in a religious context makes it more mild
• "Deny thy father and refuse thy name"


  Act 2, scene 2 - Juliet recognises that the family names will cause trouble, juxtaposing Romeo's ignorant infatuation with realism

  Gender roles - normally the woman gives up her name in marriage but Juliet is asking Romeo instead
• "Too rash, too unadvised, too sudden/too like the lightning"


  Act 2, scene 2 - Juliet's caution and concern with the speed things are moving

  Lightning - dangerous and unpredictable
• "My bounty is as boundless as the sea/my love as deep"


  Act 2, scene 2 - their love is as endless as the ocean

  Water often associated with tenderness and care at the time and the sea changes (can be calm or stormy etc.) like their love
• "this bud of love by summer's ripening breath may prove a beauteous flower"


  Act 2, scene 2 - Juliet wants the love to develop slowly and gently (like a flower) which contrasts the lightning of how it's really going

  Showing maturity and self-awareness - knows her mind
• "Beautiful tyrant, fiend angelical!"


  Act 3, scene 2 - oxymoron shows Juliet's confusion of the whole situation

  Pleasant adjectives contrast evil and cruel nouns

  Change in character from when she was certain of herself and her love
• "It was the nightingale, and not the lark"


  Act 3, scene 5 - light and dark imagery to show separation from society, family feud, patriarchy and political realities

  R+J yearn for the night instead of the day
• "What must be shall be"


  Act 4, scene 1 - Juliet accepts destiny after recognising something stands between her and Romeo (deceives Paris)
• "[she kneels down] Henceforward I am ever ruled by you"


  Act 4, scene 2 - Juliet is submissive to her father and acting as a woman of the time 'should'