R&J Flashcards
Part, fools!
Put up your swords. You know not what you do.
Benvolio to Abraham, Balthasar, Gregory, Sampson
What, drawn, and talk of peace? I hate the word,
As I hate hell, all Montagues, and thee.
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Have at thee, coward!
Tybalt to Benvolio
On pain of torture, from those bloody hands
Throw your mistempered weapons to the ground,
And hear the sentence of your movèd prince.
Three civil brawls, bred of an airy word,
By thee, old Capulet, and Montague,
Have thrice disturbed the quiet of our streets
And made Verona’s ancient Citizens
Cast by their grave-beseeming ornaments,
To wield old partisans in hands as old,
Cankered with peace, to part your cankered hate.
If ever you disturb our streets again,
Your lives shall pay the forfeit of the peace.
Prince to capulets and montagues
Prince threatens their lives if another fight breaks out
Here’s much to do with hate but more with love.
Why then, O brawling love, O loving hate,
O anything of nothing first created!
O heavy lightness, serious vanity,
Misshapen chaos of well-seeming forms!
Feather of lead, bright smoke, cold fire, sick health,
Still-waking sleep, that is not what it is!
This love feel I, that feel no love in this.
Romeo to Benvolio
Love is both wonderful and painful
She’s the hopeful lady of my earth.
But woo her, gentle Paris, get her heart.
My will to her consent is but a part.
An she agreed within her scope of choice,
Lies my consent and fair according voice.
Lord Capulet to Paris
Needs Juliet’s consent to marry
Take thou some new infection to thy eye,
And the rank poison of the old will die.
Benvolio to Romeo
I’ll look to like if looking liking move.
But no more deep will I endart mine eye
Than your consent gives strength to make it fly.
Juliet to Lady Capulet
True, I talk of dreams,
Which are the children of an idle brain,
Begot of nothing but vain fantasy,
Which is as thin of substance as the air
And more inconstant than the wind
Mercutio to Romeo
Dreams are not real
Dreams change like the wind, therefore cannot be trusted
I fear too early, for my mind misgives
Some consequence yet hanging in the stars
Shall bitterly begin his fearful date
With this night’s revels, and expire the term
Of a despisèd life closed in my breast
By some vile forfeit of untimely death.
But he that hath the steerage of my course,
Direct my sail.
Romeo to Benvolio
His fate is in the stars
Foreshadows his death
Did my heart love till now? Forswear it, sight!
For I ne’er saw true beauty till this night.
Romeo
What, dares the slave
Come hither, covered with an antic face,
To fleer and scorn at our solemnity?
Now, by the stock and honor of my kin,
To strike him dead I hold it not a sin.
Tybalt to Lord Capulet
Tybalt wants to fight Romeo
Tybalt believes in family honor
I will withdraw, but this intrusion shall
Now seeming sweet, convert to bitterest gall.
Tybalt to Lord Capulet
My only love sprung from my only hate!
Too early seen unknown, and known too late!
Juliet to Nurse
O Romeo, Romeo! Wherefore art thou Romeo?
Deny thy father and refuse thy name.
Or, if thou wilt not, be but sworn my love,
And I’ll no longer be a Capulet.
Juliet to Romeo
Asking why Romeo is a Montague
Is willing to give up her name for Romeo’s love
What’s in a name? That which we call a rose
By any other word would smell as sweet.
So Romeo would, were he not Romeo called,
Retain that dear perfection which he owes
Without that title. Romeo, doff thy name,
And for that name, which is no part of thee
Take all myself.
Juliet to Romeo
Romeo would still be perfect with a different name
Good night, good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow
That I shall say good night till it be morrow
Juliet to Romeo
In one respect I’ll thy assistant be,
For this alliance may so happy prove
To turn your households’ rancor to pure love.
Friar Lawrence to Romeo
Within the infant rind of this small flower
Poison hath residence and medicine power.
For this, being smelt, with that part cheers each part;
Being tasted, stays all senses with the heart.
Two such opposèd kings encamp them still,
In man as well as herbs—grace and rude will.
And where the worser is predominant,
Full soon the canker death eats up that plant.
Friar Lawrence
Motif of Duality
There is both good and evil
If the evil overcomes the good, the plant dies
These violent delights have violent ends
And in their triumph die, like fire and powder,
Which, as they kiss, consume.
Friar Lawrence
O calm dishonourable, vile submission!
Mercutio to Tybalt
No, ’tis not so deep as a well nor so wide as a
church-door, but ’tis enough, ’twill serve. Ask for me
tomorrow, and you shall find me a grave man. I am
peppered, I warrant, for this world. A plague o’ both
your houses! Zounds, a dog, a rat, a mouse, a cat to
scratch a man to death! A braggart, a rogue, a villain
that fights by the book of arithmetic! Why the devil
came you between us? I was hurt under your arm.
Mercutio to Romeo
Blames Romeo for getting in the way and allowing Tybalt to stab him
Motivates Romeo to avenge Mercutio
This gentleman, the Prince’s near ally,
My very friend, hath got his mortal hurt
In my behalf. My reputation stained
With Tybalt’s slander. —Tybalt, that an hour
Hath been my kinsman! O sweet Juliet,
Thy beauty hath made me effeminate
And in my temper softened valor’s steel!
Romeo to Benvolio
Feels responsible for Mercutio’s death
Reputation slain by Tybalt for allowing that
His relationship with Juliet has softened him making him less aggressive
This day’s black fate on more days doth depend.
This but begins the woe others must end.
Romeo to Benvolio
His fault concludes but what the law should end,
The life of Tybalt.
Montague to Prince
