Juliet

• 'It is an honour that I dream not of' - Juliet


  Juliet respects marriage but its not something she wants at this point in the play. This highlights her lack of desire for love, an example of dramatic irony as the audience are aware that she will not just have dreamed of love but will die for it.
• 'My only love sprung from my only hate, Too early seen unknown and known too late!' - Juliet


  She saw and fell in love with romeo before she knew he was a montagu, 'too early'. Everything happens to juliet too early, she is told to get married before she is ready, She marries romeo before she can get her parents permission, he marriage to Paris is moved forwards twice and romeo arrives at the tomb too early, before she has awoken. Love is a force that moves too quickly.
• 'O God, I have an ill-diving soul! Methinks I see thee now, thou art so low as one dead in the bottom of a tomb' - Juliet


  Last alive scene together. Juliet sees their fate. Bookended with romeo's prediction, and displays that from beginning to end they share a single fate and experience it together.
• 'I will kiss thy lips. Haply some poison doth hang on them to make me die with a restorative' - Juliet


  Her last words. She imagines the poison as a 'restorative' that can put an end to her suffering. One of the plays main themes is the inseparability of good and evil, love and hate, poison and cure. Juliets death is tragic, but she celebrates it as a means of escaping a life without her beloved
• 'Deny thy father and refuse thy name or, if thou wilt not, be but sworn my love, and I'll no longer be a Capulet'


  -Impulsive aspect of Juliet, she has just met Romeo and is already willing to leave her family for him.

  -She is breaking expectations of Elizabethan women, who were usually expected to marry someone chosen by their parents.