Romeo and Juliet

• Love as a violent, ecstatic, overpowering force that supersedes all other values and loyalties.
• Themes of fate, destiny, and free will are explored through the use of soliloquies and dramatic irony.
• R: with love's light wings did I o'erperch these walls
• R: under love's heavy burden do I sink
• R: Some consequences yet hanging in the stars,... some vile forfeit of untimely death
• R: O sweet Juliet, thy beauty hath made me effeminate
• J: My bounty is as boundless as the sea, my love as deep.
• J: You kiss by the book
• J: O swear not by the moon, the inconstant moon
• J: It is too rash, too unadvised, too sudden, too like lightning
• J: If he be married, My grave is like to be my wedding bed.
• J: Damned saint, honorable villain!
• B: Part fools! Put up your swords, you know not what you do
• T: Peace? I hate the word, As i hate hell, all Montagues and thee.
• T: Thou art a villain
• LordC: My child is yet a stranger in the world
• LordC: Hang thee, young baggage, disobedient wretch!
• LordC: She's the hopeful lady of my Earth
• LadyC: Nurse, give leave a while... Nurse come back again
• LadyC: I would the fool were married to her grave.
• FL: Wisely and slowly, they stumble that run fast.
• Romeo: O she doth teach the torches to burn bright!
• Friar L: For never was a story of more woe than this of Juliet and her Romeo.
• FL: This alliance may so happy prove to turn your household's rancour to pure love.
• M: Ask for me tomorrow and you shall find me a grave man
• M: O calm dishonourable, vile submission!
• Prologue: " From ancient grudge break to new mutiny" (conflict)
• Nurse: "What, lamb! What ladybird!" (family)
• Love's heavy burden


  A metaphor for the weight or responsibility of love, which can be difficult to bear or carry.
• Do I sink


  A question that can be interpreted in different ways, such as a statement of defeat or a question of self-discovery.
• "Do I sink" - Defeat

  "Do I sink" can be interpreted as a statement of defeat, where the speaker feels overwhelmed by the burden of love and is unable to cope.
• "Do I sink" - Despair

  "Do I sink" can be interpreted as a statement of despair, where the speaker is experiencing hopelessness due to the challenges of love and feels like they are sinking emotionally.
• "Do I sink" - Self-reflection


  "Do I sink" can be interpreted as a question of self-reflection, where the speaker is reflecting on their own limits and capabilities in dealing with love's challenges.
• "Do I sink" - Change


  "Do I sink" can be interpreted as a call to change, where the speaker recognizes that they need to change their approach to love in order to avoid sinking under its weight.
• "Do I sink" - Surrender

  "Do I sink" can be interpreted as a statement of surrender, where the speaker is surrendering to the power of love and acknowledging that it may be too strong for them to handle alone.