Romeo and Julliet

• Prologue: 'both alike in dignity' - both families are as equal as each other in importance
• prologue: 'From ancient grudge break to new mutiny' - 'ancient' and 'new' are antithesis (opposite)
• prologue: 'two foes' - the two families are fighting
• Prologue: 'star-cross'd lovers' - destiny = fate - star = astrology
• Prologue: 'with their death bury their parent's strife' - Romeo and Juliet's death brings the reconciliation of their families
• Prologue: 'death-mark'd love' - fate = death doomed from the beginning
• Prologue: 'children's end' - death of Romeo and Juliet
• The prologue tells the audience the entire plot of the play
• The Prologue is written as a sonnet = traditional love poem but its about love and death this shows the conflict at the heart of the play (physical and mental)
• Fate is important as at the time people believed that they had little control over there own lives
• Act 1 opens with a fight
• Act 1, scene 1: 'I bite my thumb' - Sampson, insult = provoke the servants of the Montagues
• Act 1, scene 1: 'Rebellious subjects' - asserting his authority (Princes speech)
• Act 1, scene 1: 'enemies to peace' - trouble makers (princes speech)
• a1, s1: 'will they not hear?' - rhetorical question (Princes speech)
• a1, s1: 'throw your mistemper'd weapons to the ground' - command (Princes Speech)
• a1, s1: 'three civil brawls' - 3 fights (Princes Speech)
• a1, s1: 'Airy word' - throw away comment (Princes Speech)
• a1, s1: 'your lives shall pay the forfeit of the peace' - threatened to kill them (Princes Speech)
• a1,s1: 'talk of peace? I hate the word' - Tybalt
• a1, s1: 'Fiery Tybalt' - describes Tybalt
• a1, s1: 'O brawling love, O loving hate' - Oxymorons = shows Romeos inner conflict
• a1,s1: 'Examine other beauties' - look for someone else

  (Benvolio)
• a1,s2: 'Let two more summers wither in their pride, Ere we may think her ripe to be a bride' - she is two young = wait + objectifies her

  +'ripe' - fruit that is ready to be picked and enjoyed

  (Capulet talking to Paris about marrying Juliet)
• a1, s2: 'woo her' - Capulet cares what Juliet thinks
• a1, s2: 'within her scope of choice' - Juliet has a say but only a little

  (Capulet - when talking to Paris)
• a1, s2: 'fresh female buds' - 'buds' = flower (objectification) hasn't blossomed yet (Capulet = talking about Juliet)
• a1,s2: 'i will make you think your swan a crow' - Benvolio talking to Romeo about Rosaline
• a1, s3: 'What lamb! What, ladybird!' - the Nurses pet names for Juliet
• a1, s3: 'It is an honour i dream not of.' - Juliet rejects the idea of marrying Paris
• a1, s3: 'i'll look to like if looking liking move' - julliet on the idea of marrying Paris
• a1, s4: Lady Capulet is very Commanding
• a1, s4: 'soul of lead' (Romeo) - love is heavy
• a1,s4: 'borrow Cupids wings and soar above a common ground' (Mercutio)
• a1,s4: 'under loves heavy burden do i sink' - he is heavy (Romeo)
• a1,s4: ' if love be rough with you be rough with love' - mercutio
• a1,s4: ' prick love for pricking and beat love down' - Mercutio
• a1,s4: Mercutio Queen Mab speech starts of fantisfaly and gets more and more violent = dreams are lies
• a1,s4: 'some consequence yet hanging in the stars' - fate

  (Romeo)
• a1,s4: 'by some forfeit of untimely death' - premonition - fate

  (Romeo)