Romeo and juliet key themes

• how is family honour shown throught the novel?

  -lord capulet “my child is yet a stranger in the world”

  -romeo “i treasure your name as much as i treasure my own”

  -juliet “tis but thy name that is mine enemy.thou art thyself,though not a montague”
• how is a patriachal society shown through the novel?

  -lord capulet “never after look me in the face.speak not reply not do not answer my fingers itch”

  -lord capulet “we have a curse in having her”

  -juliet ”proud can i never be of what i hate”
• how is the effect of conflict shown throughout the novel?

  -mercurio “a plague on both of your houses”

  -juliet “that villian cousin would have killed my husband”

  -romeo “O brawling love! O brawling hate!”
• how is the attitudes towards love shown in the novel?

  “a pair of starcrossed lovers take their life”

  -juliet “my only love sprung from my only hate”

  -friar lawrence “these violent delights have violent ends”