Romeo and Juliet key quotes

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Romeo - "oh, she doth teach the torches to burn bright"
Romeo uses a metaphor in this vote in a reaction to Juliet's beauty. His reference to "torches" links to stars which is used through out the play
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Juliet - "O Romeo. Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo?"
this quote is Juliet asking why he is Romeo because she knows that they could not be together due to there families hatred for each other.
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Mercutio - "O plague a'both houses!"
this is Mercutio uttering what is like a curse upon them which prologue and foreshadows the end of the play
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Juliet - " delay this marriage for a month, a week. Or, if you do not, make the bridal bed in that dim monument where Tybalt lies"
the use of "bridal bed£ and "dim monument" shows that love and death are closely intertwined. this also foreshadows the end of the play.
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Friar Lawrence - "thy eyes' windows fall/ like death when he shuts up the day of life"
Friar Lawrence uses a simile when instructing Juliet to take the potion he had given her. this once again foreshadows the end of the play because he says she will appear dead but then by the end of the play she truly will be
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Lord Capulet - "O brother Montague, give me thy hand"
this is Capulet revealing his desire to end the feud for good. this shows that the hatred towards each other was so strong it took both of there daughter and son to not only die but take their own lives together for it to end.
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this quote is Juliet asking why he is Romeo because she knows that they could not be together due to there families hatred for each other.

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Juliet - "O Romeo. Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo?"

Card 3

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this is Mercutio uttering what is like a curse upon them which prologue and foreshadows the end of the play

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Card 4

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the use of "bridal bed£ and "dim monument" shows that love and death are closely intertwined. this also foreshadows the end of the play.

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Preview of the back of card 4

Card 5

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Friar Lawrence uses a simile when instructing Juliet to take the potion he had given her. this once again foreshadows the end of the play because he says she will appear dead but then by the end of the play she truly will be

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