quotes

• romeo is never seen in a natural disposition (mental state)

  • he is either suffering from being love sick for rosaline or madly inlove with juliet and impulsive

  romeo has no identity free of emotinal attachment and therefore in the elizebethan period considered a effeminate charceter (untypical man)
• " O brawling love, O loving hate " romeo in act 1 scene 1

  • brawling = hate
  • oxymoron
  • romeo is confused about his feelinsg with rosaline- lust
  • shows conflicting emotions
  • hate and fighting are not assosiated with true love
  • the repeated "o" creates a whinny, moaning sound illustrating his suffering
  • shakespear has used this line to deeper the audiences understanding or love types and romeos emotinal character
• " did my heart love till now? forswear it, sight! for i never saw true beauty till this night." - romeo in act 1 scene 5 (party)

  • retorical question
  • proof rosaline was lust not love
  • "sight" "night" are rhyming coplets
  • shakespesar used rhyming couplets to emphasis key momments in the play
  • juliet is the sight and romeo is the night (knight)
• " my lips, two blushing pilgrims, ready stand To smoothe that rough touch with a tender kiss" - romeo act 1 scene 5

  • CONTEXT- religious language
  • shows their love is courtly and is blessed by religion
  • the first 14 lines written between romeo and juliet are written as a sonnet - love poem and it shows they immediatly click and undertand eachother
• "but,soft , what light through yonder window breaks? it is the east, and juliet is the sun." - romeo act 2 scene 2

  • romeo always refers to juliet with light imagery
  • his first thoughts when he sees juliet
  • she is his light in his depression of darkness over rosaline
  • shakespear makes juliet the light to show that the love is the hope for the fued to end
• " o , i am fortunes fool"- romeo act 3 scene 1

  • fate - romeo has made a choice to kill tybalt knowing the concequences
  • he is the fool to fate ans has let his emotions over come him
• " then i defy you stars" - romeo act 5 scene 1

  • he is defying his fate
  • he is defying powers much bigger than himself to be with juliet - religion
  • impulsive reaction to juliets death- back to how he weas before juliet