R+J quotes

• love essay plan -

  negative force making people irrational and leading to death and conflict

  romeo: this love I feel that I feel no love in this

  romeo: o’ brawling love, o loving hate

  Juliet: too rash too unadvised too sudden

  
  

  positive force changing lives

  Romeo: what light through yonder window breaks it is the east and Juliet is the sun

  romeo: she doth teach the torches to burn bright

  lord capulet: give me thy hand

  
  

  physical and emotional

  mercutio: if love be rough with you be rough with love

  friar Lawrence: young men’s love then lies not in their hearts but in their eyes
• Male honour/ masculinity essay plan

  lord capulet

  hopeful lady of my earth

  my will to her consent is but a part

  hang beg starve die

  my fingers itch

  disobedient wretch hang thee young baggage

  
  

  romeo

  he was not at this fray

  o calm dishonourable vile submission

  fire eyed fury be my conduct now

  
  

  attitudes to women

  Friar: thy tears are womanish

  Romeo: thy beauty hath made me effeminate

  Sampson: women being the weaker vessel

  
  

  Tybalt

  talk of peace I hate the word / fetch me my rapier
• Fate essay plan

  
  

  cruel and superior to man

  Romeo: o I am fortunes fool

  Romeo: I defy you stars

  Juliet: my grave is like to be my wedding bed

  Lady C: I would the fool were married to her grave

  
  

  associated with religion / god has a role

  friar: these violent delights have violent ends

  thou art wedded to calamity

  a greater power than we can contradict hath thwarted our intents

  
  

  preventitive

  friar John: I could not send it nor get a message

  mercutio: a plague o both your houses

  juliet: thy lips are warm
• Romeo: 'but soft what light through yonder window breaks it is the east and juliet is the sun. Arise fair sun and kill the envious moon'
• Romeo: 'for beauty starved with her severity cuts beauty off from all posterity'
• Romeo: 'thy beauty hath made me effeminate'
• Romeo: 'unhappy fortune'
• Romeo: 'one writ with me in sour misfourtunes book'
• Romeo: 'i am fortunes fool'
• Romeo: 'I defy you stars'
• Romeo: 'lie with thee Juliet tonight'
• Romeo: 'some awful destiny will result in (his) untimely death'
• Romeo: 'peace mercutio peace'
• Romeo: 'gentle mercutio put up thy rapier'
• Romeo: 'a madman's mercy bid (him) runaway'
• Romeo: 'fire eyed fury be my conduct now'
• Romeo: 'o brawling love o loving hate'
• Romeo: 'with loves light wings I do o'erperch these walls'
• Romeo: 'locks out fair daylight and makes himself an artificial night'
• Romeo: 'o she doth teach the torches to burn bright'
• Tybalt: talk of peace I hate the word as I hate hell all montagues and thee
• tybalt: thou art a villain
• Tybalt: by the stock and honour of my kin to strike him dead I hold it not a sin
• Tybalt: have at thee coward
• Tybalt: wretched boy
• mercutio: a plague o' both your houses! they have made worms meat of me
• mercutio: o calm dishonourable vile submission
• mercutio: prick love for pricking and you beat love down
• Mercutio: her high forehead and her scarlet lip
• Nurse: and pretty fool it stinted and said ay
• Nurse: now by my maidenhead at twelve years old
• Nurse: wast the prettiest babe that (she) e’er nursed
• Nurse: never was seen so black a day as this
• Lady capulet: nurse where’s my daughter? call her forth to me
• lady capulet: I was your mother much upon these days
• lady capulet: talk not to me for I will not speak a word
• lady capulet: here comes your father tell him so yourself
• lady capulet: my child! my only life! revive look up or I will die with thee!
• Friar: speaks of baleful weeds
• friar: the earth that natures mother is her tomb what is her burying grave that is her womb