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Flashcards by Helen Harmer, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Helen Harmer
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| Question | Answer |
| "Is the day so long" - Romeo "What sadness lengthens Romeo's hours?"- Benvolio "O brawling love, O loving hate" - Romeo "Such is love's transgression ( crime)" - Romeo " this is not Romeo, he's some other where" - Romeo | Act 1 scene 1 : when we first meet Romeo, shows he is depressed and emotional also in love with Roseline at this point.contradictions show how confused Romeo is and create a paradox. |
| "I dreamed a dream tonight " ...." They do dream things true" - Romeo " yet hanging in the stars"...."some vile forfeit of untimely death" - Romeo | Act 1 scene 4: lots of for shadowing in this scene with Romeo dreaming about his own death shows he believes in fate |
| "Did my heart love till now? Forswear it , sight! For I ne'er saw true beauty till this night" - Romeo "virtuous and well-governed youth" - Capulet "If I profane with my unworthiest hand this shrine" - Romeo "You kiss by the book ( perfect or in experienced)" - Juliet | Act 1 scene 5 : Romeo is already in love with Juliet even though he love Roseline only 3 scenes ago. The first lines spoken between Romeo and Juliet are a sonnet, shows instant love. "shrine" religious. |
| "Romeo! Humours! Madman! Passion! Lover!" - Mercutio | Act 2 scene 1: looking for Romeo as he has run off to find Juliet. Sums up Romeos character. |
| "It is the east, and Juliet is the sun" - Romeo "O speak again, bright angel" ... ""winged messenger of heaven" - Romeo "O swear not by the moon, th' inconstant moon" - Juliet | Act 2 scene 2: Romeo tries to use poetry to woe Juliet. He compares he to the sun and religious symbols could be disrespectful. Lots of imagery- light, religious, nature, night |
| " I have forgotten that name, and that names woe" - Romeo ( on Roseline) " that's my good son" - Friar "one hath wounded me" - Romeo " for doting, not for loving, pupil mine"- Friar " I stand on sudden haste" - Romeo | Act 2 scene 3: Romeo and the Friar have a close relationship, The friar doesn't like the rush but agrees anyway to get the families together by marring them. Shows Romeo is impulsive and passionate |
| " Now art thou sociable, now art thou Romeo" - Mercutio | Act 2 scene 4: comic relief in word play between Romeo and Mercutio. |
| "Love-devouring death do what he dare" - Romeo | Act 2 scene 6( the wedding) : Last scene of act 2 very quick to show haste of the wedding. Dramatic irony as if Romeo is tempting fate + foreshadowing. |
| "Love thee better than thou can devise" - Romeo "Thy beauty hath made me effeminate" - Romeo "Fire-eyed fury be my conduct now!" - Romeo "O I am fortunes fool" - Romeo | Act 3 scene 1 ( Tybalt and Mercutio die): Dramatic irony. Blames Juliet + HC. Romeo is anger and feels guilty for Mercutio's death. Romeo feels he is a victim of fate. Mercutio's death marks the beginning of the tragic part of the play as he provided a lot of the humour. Italians were stereo typically hot-headed - HC |
| "Hence 'banished' is banished from the world" - Romeo "Thou canst speak of that thou dost not feel" - Romeo "Hold thy desperate hand! Art thou a man" - Romeo | Act 3 scene 3: Romeo thinks banished is worst than death repeats banished through scene. He is childish + lashes out at the friar. Later in the scene Romeo pulls out his dagger this shows how impulsive + irrational he can be + doesn't think of effect on Juliet + family. HC - Patriarchal society. |
| " I pay thy poverty" - Romeo "Cordial and not poison " - Romeo | Act 5 scene 1: Romeo gets poison by taking advantage of the apothecary. He can only be well when he is with Juliet so he calls the poison medicine. |
| " a madman's mercy bid thee run away" - Romeo "Here's to my love" - Romeo | Act 5 scene 3 ( Romeo and Juliet's deaths): Romeo calls himself a madman shows how desperate he is. last line of his soliloquy. |
| "Never was a story of more woe Then this of Juliet and her Romeo" | Final line |
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