Key Quotes From Act 3 Flashcards
“Thou art a villain.” - Tybalt
When Tybalt approaches Romeo, he continually tries to annoy and provoke him to fight.
He insults him to try and encourage him to be violent.
The noun ‘villain’ was known to be am incredibly insulting term in Elizabethan times. This insult builds tension and suspense as audiences wonder how Romeo will react to his aggression.
“O, I am fortune’s fool!” - Romeo
Romeo feels that the powers of fate and destiny are playing with him. He met his true love and is happy for a little while, but then fate causes him to kill Tybalt, Juliet’s cousin.
Romeo knows this means that he can never actually be with Juliet. He can never build a life with her, can never have a family with her, and can never be happy with her. Although fate and fortune brought Juliet to him, he can now never be with her.
“Good Capulet - which name I tender as dearly as my own - be satisfied.”
In contrast to a central focus of the play (hatred between the families), Romeo is the first character to push these feelings of anger aside.
In fact, while trying to calm Tybalt, he uses the adjective ‘good’ to refer to him.
But Romeo’s attempt to calm Tybalt actually angers him even more. Romeo asks him to ‘be satisfied’ and stop the fighting.
“Bid him come to take his last farewell.” - Juliet
In this scene, Juliet begs the Nurse to tell Romeo to come to her for their wedding night.
They can say ‘farewell’ before he is exiled to Mantua.
The dramatic irony is that the audience knows that this visit will be the last time the couple see each other alive.
“Hang thee, young baggage! Disobedient wretch.” - Lord Capulet
This shows Lord Capulet’s change in attitude.
In Act 1, he wanted Juliet to pick a husband that she would love. He also wanted her to be happy, yet in Act 3, when Juliet refuses to marry Paris, he calls her a ‘baggage’.
This suggests she is in his way and is a burden, and also calls her a ‘wretch’.
