Romeo and Juliet - Key Quotes
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- Romeo and Juliet - Key Quotes
- "A plague o' both your houses"
- Mercutio's dying words - Mercutio is foreshadowing the great loss of, both, The Capulets and The Montegues.
- "O! I am Fortune's fool!"
- After Tybalt and Mercutio are dead - Fortune is being especially cruel to Romeo after just getting married now being put to death. Bring's back the idea of fate.
- "For never was a story of more woe than this of Juliet and her Romeo"
- Price Escalus - a story told countless times since first performed in 1594.
- "But, soft! What light through yonder window breaks? It is in the East and Juliet is the sun"
- Throughout the play Romeo compares Juliet to the sun and light. Representing her beauty.
- "O Romeo, Romeo! Wherefore art thou Romeo?"
- Juliet is asking why Romeo is a Montegue and why their love has to be forbidden.
- "What's in a name? That we call a rose, By any other word would smell as sweet"
- Juliet expresses a modern idea that your name does not define you. Showing Juliet being modern and rebellious.
- "Good Night, Good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow, that I shall say goodnight til it be morrow"
- The next time they meet they'll be married. Sibilants.
- "A pair of star-crossed lovers take their life"
- References to the stars which was very common at the time.
- "These violent delights, have violent ends"
- Friar Lawrence is saying their sudden love will end just as suddenly. Foreshawdowing.
- "A plague o' both your houses"
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