romeo

• 'I am fortunes fool'

  nihilistic reaction for audience as if all romeo's actions are predetermined and doomed for death as the concept of control is an illusion

  personification to illude that destiny is a person who controls R

  Fool also means joker, illudes that romeo is a form of entertainment for fate

  Directly after Romeo slained Tybalt after previously not wanting to harm tybalt so is a fool for maybe messing up his marriage ( immature )
• ' there lies more peril in eye than twenty of their swords '


  Romeo is implying that love is a dangerous thing as the peril of love goes beyond the threat of physical harm

  displays his distorted and extreme view of love

  Shows him to be hasty in the way he loves as he is willing to sacrifice his entire life for a woman he just met ( doesn't comprehend the potential for social isolation and familial bloodshed )
• ' thy drugs are quick, thus with a kiss i die'


  His last line, v poignant, esp due to his current situation

  Juliet is the focus of his last words that juxtapose themselves as kiss symbolises life and fertility whilst die is morbid

  emphasises his hastiness as he sacrifices his life for a woman who isn't even dead ( impatient and impetuous) and believes it's his fate
• ' either thou or i, or both '

  R urges Tybalt dead so much he is willing to sacrifice his own life

  He wishes for mutual destruction as he has been blinded by the ancient feud that radiates from Tybalt ( figurehead )

  Ironic as he later joins Tybalt after he dies as love transcend mortal limitations which could be seen as effeminate or weak ( could have died for the devotion to the feud )
• ' for stony limits cannot hold love out'


  stony limits act as a metaphor for this wall blocking r + j due to the ancient feud that acts as a boundary throughout the city

  R dispels any notion that he is unwilling to break this wall for her and by extension ignore his family's beliefs ( folly of the youth )