Quotes (R&J)

• Romeo - "there lie more peril in her eye/ Than twenty of their swords" (act 2)

  • Love, violence, youth - Individual vs society, Family + duty
• Romeo - "But, soft! what light through yonder window breaks? It is the east, and Juliet is the sun." (Act 2)

  • Love, youth, individual vs society
  • Chance/fate, family + duty
• Romeo - "With love's wings did he o'erperch these walls, for stony limits cannot hold love out" (Act 2)

  • Individual vs society, family + duty, love, youth
• Romeo - "thy beauty hath made me effeminate" (Act 3)

  • Violence, love, youth, individual vs family
• Romeo - "Then i defy you, stars!" (Act 5)

  • Chance/fate, youth, love, individual vs society, violence
• Juliet - "If he be married, My grave is like to be my wedding bed." (Act 1)

  • Violence, love, chance/fate, youth
  • Individual vs society, family vs duty
• Juliet - "Deny thy father and refuse thy name" (Act 2, Scene 2)

  • Family vs duty, individual vs society, love, violence, youth
• Juliet - "O serpent heart, hid with a flowering face!" (Act 3)

  • Violence, love, youth, individual vs society, family vs duty
• Juliet - "Then i'll be brief, O happy dagger!" (Act 5)

  • Violence, chance/fate, love, individual vs society, youth
• Lord Capulet - "Hang, beg, starve, die" (Act 3)

  • Individual vs society, family vs duty, violence, love
• Lord Capulet - "Death lies on her like an untimely frost / Upon the sweetest flower of all the field." (Act 4)

  • Family vs duty, individual vs society, love, violence, chance/fate
• Lady Capulet - "Nurse, come back again" (act 1)

  • Family vs duty, youth, individual vs society, love
• Lady Capulet - "the sight of death is a bell, / That warns my old age to a sepulchre" (Act 5)

  • Violence, family vs duty, individual vs society, love, chance/fate
• Friar Lawrence - "The earth, that's nature's mother, is her tomb. what is her burying, grave that is her womb" (Act 2)

  • Chance/fate, youth, violence/death, love
• Friar Lawrence - "Good morning father" (Act 2, said by Romeo)

  • Family vs duty, individual vs society, love
• Friar Lawrence - "so tortured by my art" (Act 5)

  • Family vs duty, individual vs society, love, violence/death
• Mercutio - "prick love for pricking" (Act 1)

  • Love, individual vs society, violence, youth
• Mercutio - "A plague o' both your houses" (Act 3)

  • Family vs duty, violence, individual vs society, youth, love
• Tybalt - "have at thee coward!" (Act 1)

  • Violence, individual vs society, youth
• Tybalt - "Wretched boy" (Act 3)

  • Violence, youth, individual vs society
• Nurse - "wast the prettiest babe that e'er ...nursed" (Act 1)
• Nurse - "What lamb! What ladybird!" (Act 1)