romeo

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  "I am fortune's fool"

  After killing tybalt

  at the mercy of fate (victim)
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  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)
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  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"
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  sensible

  "tybalt, mercutio, the prince expressly hath forbidden bandying in verona streets"
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  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"
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  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
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  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