Romeo

• "O brawling love, o loving hate"


  Act 1, scene 1 - fighting to be in love

  oxymorons - ambivalent attitude towards families' animosity
• "Feather of lead, bright smoke"


  Act 1, scene 1 - oxymorons show his complete confusion
• "Oh she doth teach the torches to burn bright!"


  Act 1, scene 5 - light imagery portrays Juliet as his hope which contrasts the depression Rosaline brought him
• "A snowy dove trooping with crows"


  Act 1, scene 5 - crows represent death, foreshadowing

  Doves are peaceful, crows are loud - Juliet stands out in the crowd
• "This holy shrine"


  Act 1, scene 5 - compares Juliet to a place of worship, she's as good as a deity and deserving of his complete devotion

  Represents something more?
• "My mind misgives some consequence yet hanging in the stars"


  Act 1, scene 4 - Romeo's conscience warns him of danger ahead linking to fate and the prologue (dramatic irony)
• "What light through yonder window breaks? It is the east, and Juliet is the sun. Arise, fair sun and kill the envious moon"


  Act 2, scene 2 - light imagery, Juliet is his hope/new day

  Rosaline=moon, Roman mythology Diana (goddess of virginity) was associated with moon so Juliet kills Rosaline and her plan to be a nun
• "For stony limits cannot hold love out"


  Act 2, scene 2 - reflects the walls that separate the families contrasting how no boundaries can restrict their love
• "Then love-devouring Death do what he dare"


  Act 2, scene 6 - personification of death makes their fate seem more real, shows death's power over them
• "O, I am fortune's fool"


  Act 3, scene 1 - Romeo is completely in the hands of fate, makes him seem out of control
• "More fierce than empty tigers or the roaring sea"


  Act 5, scene 3 - Romeo threatens Paris saying he'll do worse than that

  Shows how love turns ("boundless as the sea")