Snaith//Presentation Of Themes, Romeo and Juliet
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- Main Themes Within Romeo & Juliet
- Love
- Rosaline
- 'Love is a smoke' - Romeo
- Saying that he is blinded by his love for Rosaline
- 'Precious treasure of his eyesight' - Romeo
- Romeo speaks about how beautiful Rosaline is, (superficiality)
- 'O' Brawling love' O' loving hate' - Romeo
- Exaggerating how in love he is with Rosaline
- 'Love is a smoke' - Romeo
- Juliet
- 'Pilgrims lips that they must use in prayer' - Juliet
- When Juliet initially refused Romeos request for a kiss, references religion
- 'Her mother is the lady of the house' - Nurse
- Nurse tells Romeo that Juliet is a Capulet, references family feud
- 'Trespass sweetly urged' - Romeo
- Romeo requested to kiss Juliet again, shows how pure and innocent Juliet is
- 'Pilgrims lips that they must use in prayer' - Juliet
- Rosaline
- Tradition
- Marriage
- 'We may think her ripe to be a bride' - Capulet
- Capulet doesnt thin Juliet is ready to be married, so he asks Paris to wait 2 more years
- 'Younger than she are happy mothers made' - Paris
- Paris is asking Capulet for his daughters hand in marriage and says that girls younger than her are happily married
- 'Daughter Juliet, how stands your disposition to be married?' - Lady Capulet
- Lady Capulet asks whether Juliet wants to be married, Juliet replies that she doesnt
- 'We may think her ripe to be a bride' - Capulet
- Religion
- ' A winger messenger of heaven' - Romeo
- Compares Juliet to an angel
- 'Holy palmers kiss' - Juliet
- When their hands touched, the kiss was believed to be holy
- 'The god of my idolatry' - Juliet
- Comparing Romeo to God indicates that she is idolizing him
- ' A winger messenger of heaven' - Romeo
- Marriage
- Family Feud
- End Scene
- 'O brother Montague' - Capulet
- reconciled after the death of their children (links to prologue, 'but which their childrens end, nought could remove'
- 'Where be these enemies?... What a scourge is laid upon your hate' - Prince
- Prince calls Capulet and Monatgue to see what their feud has caused
- 'O brother Montague' - Capulet
- Initial fight scene
- 'As i hate hell, all Montagues' - Tybalt
- Tells us about Tybalts hatred for Montagues (linked to his murder scene later in the play)
- 'Thou Villain Capulet' - Montague
- Enemies
- 'Who set this ancient quarrel new abroach?' - Montague
- Asking who started the brawl
- 'As i hate hell, all Montagues' - Tybalt
- End Scene
- Fate & Fore-shadowing
- Prologue
- 'But which their Childrens end, nought could remove' - Prologue
- The only thing that could end the feud would be the death of their children
- 'Star-cross'd lovers' - Prologue
- That it was written in the stars thatRome and Juliet were fated to die
- 'Death-marked love' - Prologue
- Fated from the start
- 'But which their Childrens end, nought could remove' - Prologue
- Whole play
- 'Harging in the stars' - Romeo
- Written in the stars
- 'These violent delights have violent ends' - Friar Lawrence
- That their whirlwhind romance was fated to come to an abrupt end
- 'Expire the term' - Romeo
- End of their lives
- 'Harging in the stars' - Romeo
- Prologue
- Love
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