Romeo And Juliet Flashcards
Act 1 feuds/violence (11)
Prologue:
Chorus “from ancient grudge to new mutiny” + “civil blood makes civil hands unclean.” + “Doth with their death bury their parents strife.”
Scene 1:
Sampson “I will bite my thumb at them,”
Benvolio “Put up your swords, you know not what you do,” + “I do but keep the peace”
Tybalt “As I hate hell, all montagues, and thee,”
Prince “neighbour stained steel” + “three civil brawls, bred of an airy word”
Benvolio “fiery tybalt”
Scene 5:
Juliet “my only love sprung form my only hate”
Act 1 fate/stars (6)
Prologue:
Chorus “star-crossed lovers”
Scene 1:
Prince “your lives shall pay the forfeit of the peace.”
Montagues “And makes himself an artificial night,”
Scene 2:
Romeo “mine own fortune in my misery”
Scene 4:
Romeo “By some forfeit of untimely death.”
Scene 5:
Chorus “Now old desire doth in his death-bed lie,”
Act 1 relationships/gender roles (7)
Scene 1:
Sampson “Therefore women being the weaker vessels” + “the heads of the maids, or their maidenheads”
Scene 2:
Paris “younger than she are happy mothers made”
Capulet “Earth hath swallowed all my hopes but she” + “my will to her consent is but a part”
Scene 3:
Nurse “what lamb! What ladybird”
Juliet “it is an honour that I dreamt not of” marriage
Act 1 love/death (6)
Scene 1:
Romeo “Alas that love whose view is muffled still” - Cupid wears a blindfold + “feather of lead” + “still-waking sleep” contrasting feelings of love
Scene 4:
Mercutio “If love be rough with you be rough with love” + “through lovers’ brains and then they dream of love”
Scene 5
Romeo “For I never saw true beauty till this night”
Juliet “my grave is like to be my wedding bed”
Act 2 fate/stars (4)
Scene 2:
Romeo “kill the envious moon” + “the brightness of her cheek would shame those stars”
Juliet “th’inconstant moon” + “too like the lightning which doth cease to be”
Act 2 feud/violence (5)
Scene 1:
Juliet “wherefore art thou Romeo?” Why is your name Romeo
Romeo “I have night’s cloak to hide me from their eyes”
Scene 3:
Friar “to turn your household’s rancour to pure love”
Scene 4:
Mercutio “Prince of cats” Tybalt
Scene 6:
Friar “these violent delights have violent ends”
Act 2 love/death (5)
Scene 1:
Juliet “swear by thy gracious self” godly imagery + “no further than a wanton’s bird” + “like a poor prisoner in his twisted gyves”
Scene 3:
Friar “the Earth that’s nature’s mother is her tomb”
“Poison hath residence and medicine power”
Act 2 relationships/gender roles (4)
Scene 3:
Friar “young men’s love their lies not truly in their hearts but in their eyes”
“women may fall when there’s no strength in men”
Scene 4:
Romeo “loves to hear himself talk and will speak more in a minute than he will stand to in a month”
SD “Juliet returns his kiss”
Act 3 feud/violence (5)
Scene 1:
Benvolio “here all eyes gaze on us”
Tybalt “though art a villain” (to Romeo)
Romeo “good Capulet which name I tender as
dearly as mine own” (to Tybalt)
Mercutio “I was hurt under your arm” (to Romeo)
Prince “my blood for your rude brawls doth lie a-bleeding”
Act 3 relationships/gender roles (8)
Scene 1:
Mercutio “I will not budge for no man’s pleasure” + “you will find me a grave”
Romeo “thy beauty hath made me effeminate”
Scene 3:
Friar “tears are womanish”
Scene 4:
Capulet “she shall be married to a noble Earl”
Scene 5:
Capulet “you green-sickness carrion” + “young baggage” + “disobedient wretch”
Act 3 love/death (3)
Scene 2:
Juliet “beautiful tyrant, fiend angelical” (her feeling for Romeo) + “but I, a maid, die maid widowed”
Scene 3:
Romeo “more courtship lies in carrion flies than Romeo” (he’s banished so he can’t see Juliet)
Act 3 fate/stars (6)
Scene 1:
Mercutio “A plague a’both houses”
Romeo “This day’s black fate on moe days doth depend” + “O, I am fortune’s fool”
Scene 2:
Juliet “come night come Romeo”
Scene 3:
Romeo “banishment be merciful say death”
Scene 5:
LC “I would the fool were married to her grave” (to Juliet for not marrying Paris)
Act 4 love/death (3)
Scene 1:
Juliet “To live an unstain’d wife to my sweet love”
Scene 3:
Juliet “I drink to thee”
Scene 5:
“Flower as she was, deflowered by him” (personified death)
Act 4 relationships/gender roles (4)
Scene 2:
Juliet “hence forward I am ever rul’d by you” (to Capulet)
Scene 5:
LC “my child, my only life”
Capulet “And with my child my joys are buried”
Friar “You love your child so I’ll that you run mad seeing that she is well”
Act 5 fate/stars (6)
Scene 1:
Romeo “I dreamt my lady came and found me dead” + “I defy you stars”
Apoc “My poverty but not my will consents” (to selling Romeo poison)
Scene 2:
Friar “unhappy fortune”
Scene 3:
Romeo “shake the yoke of inauspicious stars from this world-weary flesh”
Prince “The sun of sorrow will not show his head”
