ROMEO KEY QUOTATIONS (THEMES)
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- Created on: 18-05-18 09:40
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- ROMEO
- Unrequited Love
- 'Ah me, sad hours seem long.' ( 1.1)
- 'O brawling love, O loving hate' (1.1)
- Oxymoron- Romeo is using this to show that his mind is torn.
- 'Love is smoke made with the fume of sighs' (1.1)
- 'I have lost myself... This is not Romeo' (1.1)
- 'Under love's heavy burden do i sink' (1.4)
- Romantic Love
- 'Did my heart love til now? I never saw true beauty till this night' (1.5)
- He is being naïve. Romeo thought he loved Rosaline and said that she is fair; wisely too fair'.
- 'O she doth teach the torches to burn bright!'
- 'The brightness of those cheeks would shame those stars' (2.2)
- 'Bright angel'
- The theme of light is a running motif throughout the play in terms of Romeo's feelings towards Juliet.
- 'With love's light wings did i o'erperch these walls'
- 'Here Lie's Juliet, and her beauty makes this vault a feasting presence full of light'
- 'Juliet is the sun' (2.2)
- Simile - is another comparison to light. He says that she is the sun. The sun gives energy and light to everyone and everything, this may be what Romeo feels about Juliet.
- 'Did my heart love til now? I never saw true beauty till this night' (1.5)
- Facing Conflict
- 'I do protest I never injured thee, but loved thee better thou canst devise' (3.1)
- 'Villain I am non' (3.1)
- Romeo is married to Juliet so he sees Tybalt as Family not the enemy.
- 'Gentle Mercutio, put thy rapier down' (3.1)
- Trying to keep the peace, as he knows that Tybalt is violent and Mercutio will not fair well in the fight.
- 'O Sweet Juliet, thy beauty hath made me effeminate' (3.1)
- His love for Juliet has made him weak and in manly. He has become emotional and this shows how much love he has for Juliet.
- Fate
- 'O I am fortune's fool'
- He no longer has control over his own fate.
- But he that the steerage of my course Direct my sail!
- 'Some Consequence yet hanging in the stars, ... some vile forfeit f untimely death'
- 'Then i defy you, stars!'
- He wants to take fate into his own hands.
- 'O I am fortune's fool'
- Unrequited Love
- Romantic Love
- 'Did my heart love til now? I never saw true beauty till this night' (1.5)
- He is being naïve. Romeo thought he loved Rosaline and said that she is fair; wisely too fair'.
- 'O she doth teach the torches to burn bright!'
- 'The brightness of those cheeks would shame those stars' (2.2)
- 'Bright angel'
- The theme of light is a running motif throughout the play in terms of Romeo's feelings towards Juliet.
- 'With love's light wings did i o'erperch these walls'
- 'Here Lie's Juliet, and her beauty makes this vault a feasting presence full of light'
- 'Juliet is the sun' (2.2)
- Simile - is another comparison to light. He says that she is the sun. The sun gives energy and light to everyone and everything, this may be what Romeo feels about Juliet.
- 'Did my heart love til now? I never saw true beauty till this night' (1.5)
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