Quotes on themes (love, fate, conflict), Family, Opening, Foreshadowing, and closing.
Quotes for characters.
Notes on how to stage a scene, the setting and the author
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Themes
Love
ACT 1: SCENE 1
‘Examine other beauties’ (Benvolio)
Farewell, thou canst not teach me to forget’ (Romeo)
ACT 1: SCENE 5
‘Did my heart love till now? Forswear it, sight! For I ne'er saw true beauty till this
night’(Romeo)
Beauty too rich for use, for earth too dear’(Romeo)
‘My only love sprung from my only hate!’ (Juliet)
ACT 2: SCENE 2
See how she leans her cheek upon her hand! O, that I were a glove upon that hand,’
(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)
A soliloquy is when a character speaks at length to the audience to reveal his/her thoughts
and feelings. It is as if the character is thinking out loud. Romeo speaks in soliloquy as he
expresses his awe at Juliet’s beauty.
ACT 5: SCENE 3
“Death, that had sucked the honey of thy breath, Hath had no power yet upon thy
beauty.”(Romeo) death has not taken her beauty
Conflict
ACT 1: SCENE 1
Tybalt seems to hate the idea of peace ‘What, drawn and talk of peace? I hate the word’.
ACT 1: SCENE 5
‘’This, by his voice, should be a Montague’(Tybalt)
ACT 2: SCENE 4
‘Tybalt, the kinsman of old Capulet, hath sent a letter to his father’s house’ (Tybalt sent a
letter challenging Romeo to a duel)
ACT 3: SCENE1
‘thou art a villain’. (Tybalt) says to Romeo
Mercutio dies, cursing both Montagues and Capulets: "A plague o' both your houses“.
‘Either thou ,or I, or both, must go with him’ (Romeo is enrages and states that someone
needs
, to pay for Mercutio’s death)
‘Immediately we do exile him hence’ (Prince Escalus banishing Romeo)
ACT 5: SCENE 3
Romeo kills Paris
O, I am slain! (Paris)
Fate
ACT 1: SCENE 4
“I fear to 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 despised life
closed in my breast By some vile forfeit of untimely death.” Romeo
ACT 3: SCENE 5
"Be fickle fortune: for then i hope thou wilt not keep him long, but send him back."(juliet) last
time they see each other alive
ACT 5: SCENE 1
Then I defy you, stars (Romeo) Romeo defies fate and decides to go to Verona to visit
Juliet’s grave
ACT 5: SCENE 3
Family
ACT 1: SCENE 3
Madam, I am here. What is your will? (Juliet)= Shows her obedience and the fact that she
has a more formal relationship with her mother.
ACT 3: SCENE 4
Capulet says he wants Paris and Juliet to marry, and thinks her heart "will be ruled in all
respects by me" wedding on thursday, today in Monday
Setting / imagery
The setting for Romeo and Juliet is the Italian city of Verona.
Opening
ACT 1: SCENE 1
Abraham: ‘Do you bite your thumb at us, sir’
What, drawn and talk of peace? I hate the word, as I hate hell, all Montagues and
thee.(tybalt)
‘If ever you disturb our streets again your lives shall pay’ (Prince Escalus)
‘Examine other beauties’ (Benvolio)
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