Quotes

• From forth the fatal loins of these two foes

  • prologue
  • establishes as a tragedy of fate
  • ”foes” parents are responsible fo the fate due to the feud
• “Thrust maids to the wall … my naked weapon”

  • gregory and samson
  • wanting to thrust the maids to the role
  • want to rape the maids
  • patriarchal society
• “And too soon marred are those so early made”

  • capulet to paris about juliet
  • Telling paris to wait until juliet is 16
  • maybe saying that he ruined his marrage as he married too soon
  • not wanting to ruin juliets life
• For saints have hands that pilgrims hands do touch-Romeo

  • When the lovers meet they speak in a sonnet
  • Shakespeare was the most famous sonnet writer in the country
  • sonnets were wrote as love presents for rich men
  • maybe an advert for Shakespeare
  • this shows that romeo and juliet is actually true love
• What satisfaction canst thou have tonight . Juliet

  • Juliet saying that she will have sex with romeo if he marries her
  • however shakespeare though what if marriage did not depend on virginity and that it might be better if fathers didnt arrange marriages
• Young mens love then lies/not truly in their heart but in there eyes. Friar

  • Frair not beleiving romeo as one minute he was trying to buy sex with rosalyn and now he wants juliet
  • friar still marries them anyway
  • friar ends up killing them both and is not punished at the end
• Good king of cats nothing but one of your nine lives - mercutio to tybalt

  • Tyber was a famous figure in stories and he was a cat
  • mercutio is making fun of tybalt
  • banter as mercutio is saying he isnt gonna kill him but just scratch him and take “one of his nine lives”
• O i am fortunes fool - romeo after slaying tybalt

  • Blaming it on fortune and not him
  • shows his deep immaturity
  • the fricketies show Shakespeare contempt for romeos words
  • romeo has lost his masculinity
• But fettle your fine joints - capulet

  • Sexual imagery
  • fettle = pottery, paris can shape her body
  • have sex
  • capulet giving her off to the highest bidder
• O happy dagger , this is thy sheath

  • Sexual connotations
  • sheath is the cover of the dagger
  • imagining her death as a sexual union between the two
  • immaturity of the two lovers
  • tragedy is the part of their own working