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A pair of star-crossed lovers take their life… |
Introduction to the play. The play is set by the chorus. |
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“I fear too early: for my mind misgives some consequence yet hanging in the stars” |
-Romeo's dreams disturbs him. - Goes to the capulet party thinking something profound may happen but will have terrible consequences. |
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“Go ask his name: if he be married My grave is like to be my wedding bed” |
-Juliet wanted to know who Romeo was - She said if he was married she wanted to die |
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“O, I am fortune’s fool!” |
- Romeo has killed Tybalt -Benvolio tells Romeo to hide from the prince before he gets executed. |
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“O dear account! My life is my foe’s debt” |
-Romeo found out he is in love with a capulet and owes his enemy for his happiness |
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“I’ll look to like if looking liking move” |
- She will only marry paris if she likes him - They cant force her - She falls in love with Romeo instead |
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“It is too rash, too sudden, too unadvised” |
- Juliet questions how quick her relationship with Romeo has grown |
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“ O brawling love, O loving hate” |
- Romeo speaking about love |
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“Thou cutt’st my head off with a golden axe” |
-Romeo answers that to be banished and away from Juliet is worse than death |
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“ Make the bridal bed in that dim monument where Tybalt lies” |
- Juliet asks her mother to delay her marriage to Paris , or else she will die |
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“Speak again, bright angel” |
-Romeo compares Juliet to a spirit |
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“Hence will I to my ghostly sire’s close cell, help to crave, and my dearhap to tell” |
-Friar Lawrence is referred to as a spirit -Romeo needs help in marrying Juliet |
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“He jests at scars that never felt a wound” |
-Romeo comments that the only reason Mercutio can jest is because he has never been in love |
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“What’s in a name? That which we call a rose By any other name would smell as sweet” |
-Juliet, speaking to the night, reflects that the only thing wrong with the one she loves is just his name |
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“My bounty is as boundless as the sea, My love as deep; the more I give to thee,The more I have, for both are infinite” |
-Juliet pledges her love to Romeo from her balcony |
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Romeo: “I would I were thy bird.” Juliet: “Sweet, so would I. Yet I should kill thee with much cherishing.” |
-Juliet foreshadows Romeo's fate. She proclaims that her love is so intense that if he were a fragile bird she would kill him with her love. |
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“ If love be rough with you, be rough with love:prick love for pricking you and beat love down.” |
-Mercutio is teasing Romeo about his love for Rosaline |
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Romeo: “ O wilt thou leave me so unsatisfied?”Juliet: “ What satisfaction canst thou have tonight?” Romeo: “The exchange of thy love’s faithful vow for mine.” |
-Juliet has already implied that Romeo should marry her. Romeo agrees they should marry and Juliet needs to pledge her love |
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“O, she doth teach the torches to burn bright.” |
-Upon first seeing, Romeo is struck by the wonderment of her beauty |
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“ Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs.” |
-Romeo talking to Benvolio about his love for Rosaline |
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“ She hangs upon the cheek of night as a rich jewel in an Ethiop’sear.” |
-Romeo describing Juliet |
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“ My only love sprung from my only hate! Too early seen unknown, andknown too late.” |
-Juliet discovers that Romeo is a Montague, and laments she is already in love with him |
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“What, drawn and talk of peace? I hate the word, as I hate hell, all Montague’s, and three.” |
-Tybalt is talking about how he hates Montagues |
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“These violent delights have violent ends” |
-Friar Lawrence tells Romeo while they are waiting for Romeo against love that is too passionate and sudden |
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“ A plague o’ both your houses “ |
-Mercutio is fatally wounded by Tybalt, and blames Romeo for his predicament |
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“Good king of cats, nothing but one of your nine lives “ |
-Tybalt wants to kill Romeo but Mercutio teases, then challenges Tybalt to fight in the street |
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“ I’ll thy assistant be: for this alliance may so happy prove. To turnyour household’s rancour to pure love “ |
-Friar Lawrence agrees to marry Romeo and Juliet so that there will be peace between the houses |
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“ O brawling love, O loving hate. ” |
-Romeo is lamenting his relationship with Rosaline |
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“ Do you bite your thumb at us, sir?”If ever you disturb our streets again, your lives shall pay the forfeitof the peace.” |
-Prince Escales warns there should be no more fighting in the streets or the guilty person will be executed |