a1s5 Flashcards
capulet quote#4 + meaning
C: “You are a saucy boy […] Cheerly, my hearts!” Shows Capulet cares more about the party than he does for their family feud.
tybalt quote#4 + meaning
T: “Patience perforce with wilful choler […] convert to bitt’rest gall.” Enraged, wants to attack Romeo, overtaken by his hate. Hate stanza contrasts the upcoming love stanza between R+J
romeo quote#6 + meaning
R: “O she doth teach the torches to burn bright!” Portrayal of Juliet as a heavenly figure, outshining everything, starting Romeo’s deification of Juliet + her presentation as the sun.
romeo quote#7 + meaning
R: “Did my heart love until now? […] I ne’er saw true beauty till this night.” Juliet is a beauty above the rest, again emphasising the idea of his love for Rosaline being artificial and surface level.
romeo quote#8/ juliet quote#3 + meaning
“Gentle sin”, “Devotion”, “Saints lips”. Usage of religious imagery to communicate erotic, passionate desire - theme of love and religion. Romeo deifies Juliet here, and although she seems more held back than him, she does reciprocate, finishing his ‘love sonnet’ with him. They speak in a love sonnet together, contrasting Romeo quoting oxymorons in A1S1 and A1S4.
juliet quote #4 + meaning
J: “My only love sprung from my only hate! Too early seen unknown, and known too late!” Regretting having fallen deeply in love with her family’s mortal enemy, cursing the fact that she went too fast. Shows Juliet’s restrained nature, and contrasts the theme of haste.
