death - quote analysis

• What is suggested by Romeo and Juliet constantly mentioning thoughts of suicide?


  that their love is so passionate and intense that it causes them to have violent thoughts
• What is the quote “for Juliet’s sake, for her sake, rise and stand” about?

  The nurse telling Romeo to stop and think when he clumsily tries to kill himself with a knife whilst hiding in friar Laurences cell
• Why does Juliet say “and with this knife I’ll help it presently“?

  because she sees no other way out of the marriage with Paris, despite her feelings for Romeo
• What is Romeo and Juliet’s first reaction to seeing each others deaths?

  To commit suicide
• What does Juliet Say when she sees Romeo is dead and feels that without him her life has no meaning?

  “let me die”
• What is the use dramatic irony in the quote “bid Him come take his last farewell”?

  the audience knows that this visit will be the last time the couple see each-other alive
• What quote shows that she worries about her fate and the potion the friar has given her?

  “What is it be poison, which the friar subtly hath minister’s to have me dead”
• What does Juliet say when she wakes up and grabs romeos Dagger?

  “O happy dagger! This is thy sheath“
• "thus with a kiss i die" (romeo)

  themes - love, death

  ideas - dies peacefully, love and death linked

  technique - juxtaposition (gentle kiss, tragic death)
• "O happy dagger!" (juliet)

  theme - death, love

  ideas - welcomes death to be with romeo

  techniques - oxymoron (joy in death)
• "worms' meat of me" (mercutio)

  themes - death, fate

  ideas - inevitable death in a violent world

  techniques - metaphor (dark humor)
• "here's to my love!" (romeo)

  idea - romeo celebrates love as he dies, showing tragedy of passion

  theme - love and death

  technique - irony