Romeo and Julliet

• Romeo


  Passionate and impulsive, the protagonist and tragic hero of the play, his hamartia is his impulsiveness
• Romeo


  • Reckless
  • Begs Friar Laurence to marry him and Juliet quickly
  • Fateful and impulsive
• Romeo: '"Stony limits cannot hold love out"'
• Romeo: '"that thou consent to marry us to-day"'
• Friar Lawrence: '"Young men's love must lie in their eyes, not their hearts"'
• Romeo: '"But, soft! What light through yonder window breaks? / It is the east, and Juliet is the sun."'
• Romeo: '"Give me a torch. I am not for this ambling. Being but heavy, I will bear the light."'
• Romeo: '"With love's light wings did I o'erperch these walls; / For stony limits cannot hold love out,"'
• Romeo: '"I am fortune's fool"'
• Romeo: '"Then move not, while my prayer's effect I take. / Thus from my lips, by yours, my sin is purged."'
• Romeo: '"Then I defy you, stars!"'
• Love


  A powerful and brutal emotion that seizes control of the characters, a transformative emotion that transforms the characters in various ways
• The Montagues and the Capulets fight each other out of love for their family, but also hatred for one another
• Love


  Described as a deadly disease that kills you, it plagues the brain of many characters, and serves as a host
• Paris: '"if all else fails myself have power to die"'
• Romeo: 'Romeo "brandishes" a knife in front of Friar Lawrence and threatens to kill himself because of his banishment from Verona'
• Romeo and Juliet's love

  Passionate, but immature
• Friar Lawrence: '"These violent delights have violent ends"'
• Friar Lawrence: '"For never was a story of more woe / Than this of Juliet and her Romeo."'
• Juliet: '"O serpent heart, hid with a flowering face!"'
• Juliet: '"Is love a tender thing? It is too rough.Too rude, too boisterous, and it pricks like thorn."'
• Juliet: '"O, she doth teach the torches to burn bright!"'
• Unspecified: '"And what love can do that dares love attempt."'
• Fate


  A powerful force that shapes the lives and destinies of the characters beyond their control
• Romeo: '"I fear, too early; for my mind misgives / Some consequence, yet hanging in the stars."'
• Juliet: '"O Fortune, Fortune! All men call thee fickle."'
• Juliet: '"Methinks I see thee, now thou art below, / As one dead in the bottom of a tomb."'
• Mercutio: '"Ask for me tomorrow, and you shall find me a grave man."'
• Friar Laurence: '"A greater power than we can contradict / Hath thwarted our intents."'
• Honor


  A force that drives the actions of many characters in the play and leads to conflict
• Juliet


  • Autonomous and subverts expectations of women
  • Sensible and cautious about the conflict
  • Passionate and intelligent and mature
• Juliet: '"O'happy dagger this is thy sheath"'
• Juliet: '"If all else fail, myself have power to die"'
• Juliet: '"It is an honor that I dream not of."'
• Juliet: '"He shall not make me there a joyful bride."'
• Juliet: '"Conceit, more rich in matter than in words, Brags of his substance, not of ornament. They are but beggars that can count their worth, But my true love is grown to such excess I cannot sum up sum of half my wealth"'
• Juliet: '"too rash, too unadvis'd, too sudden"'
• Juliet: '"Shall I speak ill of him that is my husband?"'
• Juliet: '"My only love sprung from my only hate!"'
• Juliet: '"What's in a name? That which we call a rose. By any other name would smell as sweet."'