romeo

Cards (14)

  • ROMEO
    "I am fortune's fool"
    After killing tybalt
    at the mercy of fate (victim)
  • ROMEO
    Unrequited love
    • "oh brawling love o loving hate"
    oxymoron between 'brawling' and 'love' represents contrast between feud and romeo and juliet's love
    brawl - connotations of fighting
    foreshaows violence (this is act 1 scene 1)
  • ROMEO
    Unrequited love
    • "bright smoke"
    • "cold fire"
    • "sick health"
    confusion of love
    romeo - immature and inexperienced, tendency to rush into decisions
  • Romeo
    solitary
    "artificial night"
  • Romeo
    worships juliet
    • "it is the east, and juliet is the sun"
    • "touching hers, make blessed my rude hand"
  • Romeo
    willing to make sacrafices
    "...call me but love, and I'll be new baptised; henceforth i never will be romeo"
  • romeo
    desires peace
    "gentle mercutio, put thy rapier up"
  • romeo
    sensible
    "tybalt, mercutio, the prince expressly hath forbidden bandying in verona streets"
  • romeo
    worships juliet 2
    "touching hers, make blessed my rude hand"
  • romeo
    sensitive
    "is love a tender thing? It is too rough, too rude, too boisterous, and it pricks like thorn"
  • romeo
    emotional
    "away to heaven, respective lenity, and fire-eyed fury be my conduct now!"
    • does not care anymore that they are related, he will fight
  • Romeo
    "All this but a dream. Too flattering - sweet to be substantial"
    says after marrying juliet in act 2 scene 2
  • ROMEO
    How dreams can have bad consequences (romeo's death which he dreams this in act 1 scene 4)
    "some vile frequent of untimely death"
    but he chooses "fate to direct his sail"
  • Romeo
    "i defy you, stars!"
    anger - challenging fate
    he goes from going with fate, being a victim of fate to challenging fate