romeo and juliet

• what drawn and talk of peace?


  i hate the word as i hate hell, montagues and thee.
• if ever disturb our streets again, your lives shall pay the forfeit of peace.
• yet tell me not for i have heard it all; heres much to do with hate, but more with love... oh brawling love, oh loving hate
• but woo her, gentle paris, get her heart, my will to consent is but a part.
• ill look to like, if looking liking move, but no more deep will i endart mine eye
• i fear too early, my mind misgives some consequence yet hanging in the stars shall bitterly begins his fateful date, by some vile forfeit of untimely death
• o gentle romeo, if thou dost love, pronounce it faithfully, or if thou thinks i am too quickly won, ill frown and be perverse... i am too fond
• i have no joy of this contract tonight, it is too rash too sudden, too unadvised, too sudden
• virtue itself turns vice, being misappllied, and vice sometime by action dignified
• young mens love then lies not truly in their hearts but in their eyes
• for this alliance may so happy prove to turn your households rancour to pure love
• to strike him dead i hold no sin
• [romeo steps between them] hold, tybalt! good mercutio! [tybalt under romeos arm thrusts mercutio]
• a plague on both your houses!
• o sweet juliet my beauty hath made me effeminate
• i am fortunes fool
• and thou art wedded
• i long to die
• how if when, i laid into the tomb i wake before the time that romeo come to redeem me
• death lies on her like an ultimately frost upon the sweetest flower
• i dreamt my lady came and found me dead
• well juliet, i will lie with thee tonight
• o happy dagger
• jewel in an ethiops ear
• this is thy sheath, let me die
• death, love, fate are intertwined
• feather of lead, bright smoke, cold fire, sick health

  the juxtapositions and oxymorons are used to describe his unrequited love for juliet, which is contrasted with how he describes juliet as a bright jewel, the sun, the starts- this could mean shes bright against societies expectations of toxic masculinity towards love and the patriarchal society, yet also there is a repitition of stars- relating to fate and how their love and death has been written in the stars, yet also the repitition of angels, also shows the fate and how juliet eventually did die, and relating to religious imagery.
• describing romeos love as angellic, in the stars, bright has religious heaven imagery, which also links to the idea of love being a gift from god, fate and being written in the stars, yet throughout the hate was linked with hell- 'i hate the word as i hate hell montagues and thee'. yet both themes, love and hate are linked by death, as both end in death with mercutio being killed and the suicide, shakespeare potentially used this to show fate, and how love can be the overiding feeling.
• the friar eventually forshadows the death of romeo and juliet with his soliloquy about plants, how it can be medicine but also poison, this could also be a metaphor for love, love can be a medicine, yet also a poison.
• prologue is a sonnet, shows foreshadowing of their death, and also how romeo and juliet must succumb to their destiny which was written before they were born
• 'My mind misgives some consequence yet hanging in the stars shall bitterly begin his fearful date'
• shakespeare throughout the play shows proto-feminism to contrast the strong patriarchal society of the time
• infection and plague stops the letter, infection is passed on from person to person, like fate- chain of events