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English Romeo and Juliet quotes and analysis - Coggle Diagram
English Romeo and Juliet quotes and analysis
'O, I am fortune's fool!'
Personification
Fortune--> Fortuna (who was the god of fortune). Makes it seem like fortuna is almost messing around with Romeo's feelings.
Exclamative
Emphasis on the fool bit as it shows as if he has been played or tricked by fortuna
Romeo
Act 4, scene 1
At this point in the play, Romeo has just killed Tybalt, Juliet's cousin as revenge as Tybalt killed Mercutio
'A plague upon these two houses!'
Mercutio
Act 4, scene 1
Forshadowing
Mercutio's last words before he dies
Impactful as he was killed due to the ongoing fued between the capulets and montagues
Creates a tense atmosphere in the audience
'I'll look to like if looking liking move, but no futher shall I endart mine eye, than your consent gives strength to let if fly'.
Juliet
Act 1 scene 3
At this point she is unenthusiastic about the idea of marriage
Says she will look into it but only for her parents
People pleaser
Eye and fly - rhhyming couplet at the end
emphasis on her last two words and it shows that she really means what she says
'It is the east and Juliet is the sun'.
Romeo
Act 2 scene 2
Celestial imagery
Planets orbit around the sun: it is the centre of the universe- maybe romeo is saying that Juliet is the only thing important to him.
Shows Juliet's character status
Highlight Romeo deep love for Juliet
'A pair of star cross'd lover take their lives'
Prologue
Celestial imagery
Said by the chorus
prologue is also in a sonnet form
'soul as heavy as lead'
Romeo
Act 1 scene 4
At the Capulet's ball
Shows he still has not gotten over his ongoing unrequited love for Rosaline
contrasts to Mercutio's 'dancing shoes' comment
'She is a white swan trooping among black crows
Romeo
Highlights Juliet beauty
Light and Dark imagery
Act 1 scene 5
'O brawling love, O loving hate!'
Exclamative
chiasmas?
'Loving hate' is an oxymoron
'Earth swallowed all my hopes but she'
Lord Capulet
Act 1 scene 2
Scene where paris asks capulet for his consent to marry Juliet
Saying all of Juliet's sibling are dead apart from her so Juliet is his last hope/ last chance
'For saints have hands that holy pilgrims do touch'
Biblical language
Act 1 scene 5
scene of their first meeting
THEIR FIRST CONVERSATION IS SPOKEN IN A SONNET
'Under love's heavy burdens do I sink'
Romeo
Act 1, scene 4
Love, Heavy - contrasting imagery
sink (drowning by unrequited love and the sorrow)
'Parting is such sweet sorrow'
Act 2 scene 2