Romeo & Juliet

Main Themes

Characters

Fate

Prolouge

Quotes

"Death-mark'd love"

"Ancient grudge"

"Star-cross'd lovers"

The prologue suggests that Romeo and Juliet have very little control over their own life and they will have to succumb to their destiny.

Fated to die

Fated to love

Fated to fall victims to their parents' feud

Premonitions

Through out the play, both R & J get feelings of their death as foreshadows

Quotes

Act 1:4 when Romeo is going to the party "I fear too early, for my mind misgives // Some consequences yet hanging in the stars"

Act 1:5 "My grave is like to be my wedding bed"

Act 3 "A plague o'both your houses"

Violent Love

Unrequited love

In Act 1, Shakespeare explores the idea of unrequited love and the effects it has through Romeo and Rosaline

R & J

Quotes

Act 2 "These violent delights have violent ends"