Romeo And Juliet

• "Here I will set up my everlasting rest and shake the yoke of inauspicious stars from this world wearied flesh." - Romeo, Act 5 Scene 3


  Theme of fate, this act is the death Scene, and here Romeo is saying he is releasing himself from the heavy fate brought upon him by the unlucky stars.
• "Heaven finds ways to kill your joy with love." -Prince, Act 5, Scene 3


  The death of Romeo and Juliet are the punishment that heaven has cast upon their families due to their rivalry.
• "O, I am fortune's fool." - Romeo, Act 3 Scene 1


  Suggests he is a fool (jester) used to entertain the gods.
• "O brawling love, O loving hate!" -Romeo, Act 1 Scene 1


  Theme of Unrequited Love, an Oxymoron, Romeo is talking about his love for Rosaline
• "Some consequence yet hanging in the stars, … some vile forfeit of untimely death." -Romeo, Act 1 Scene 4


  Theme of Fate, suggests they will die young for going against their families, as untimely often means too soon and a forfeit is a punishment for breaking the rules.
• "Juliet is the sun." -Romeo, Act 2 Scene 2


  Theme of (Romantic) Love, the sun can often represent feelings of joy, but the sun can be damaging. Also could refer to Icarus, who flew too close to the sun and had an untimely death.
• “That which we call a rose by any other name, would smell just as sweet”- Juliet, Act 2 Scene 1 or 2


  Love and Hate, she does not care about Romeo’s last name
• “A plague o’ both your houses!”- Mercutio, Act 3, Scene 


  Hate, Shows he is unbiased in the grudge
• “Let two more summers wither in their pride, ere we may think her ripe to be a bride”- Lord Capulet, Act 1, Scene


  Marriage, Lord Capulet loves his daughter and is hesitant to marry her off, this attitude changes later on in the play.
• "O happy dagger! This is thy sheath; there rust, and let me die!"- Juliet


  Metaphor? Juliet could be referring to herself as the sheath for the dagger.
• "Out, you green-sickness carrion! out, you baggage! You tallow-face!"- Lord Capulet, Act 3, Scene 5


  Metaphor, Juliet is 'infecting' the Capulet's reputation with her defiance, tallow face means sickly and pale, carrion is dead or decaying animal flesh