Romeo and Juliet Themes A4 by Tod Lacey

Scene 1 Act 1 Line 64-66

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¨What, drawn and talk of peace? I hate the word, As I hate hell, all Montagues, and thee. Have at thee, coward¨

Scene 1 Act 1 Line 45

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"No, sir, I do not bite my thumb at you, sir, but I bite my thumb, sir"

Scene 3 Act 1 Line 142-146

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"Tybalt, my cousin!" O my brother's child! O Prince! O husband! O, the blood is spill'd Of my dear kinsman. Prince, as thou art true, For blood of ours, shed blood of Montague. O cousin, cousin!"

Act 1 Scene 1 Line 65

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"What, drawn and talk of peace? I hate the word."

1.1.60

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(Tybalt)

“What, art thou drawn among these heartless hinds? Turn thee, Benvolio. Look upon they death.” (60)

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(Romeo) She is too fair, too wise, to merit bliss by making me despair. She hath forsworn to love, and in that vow do i live dad that live to tell it now.

(215)

Lord Capulet makes choice for Juliet Act 1 scence 2

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(Lord Capulet) “My will to consent her is but a part, and she agreed within scope of her choice” (15)

Act 1, scene 2

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(Benvolio) “Take thou some new infection to thy eye, and the rank poison of old will die” (50)

Romeo loves him some Rosaline Act 1, scene 2.

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(Romeo) One fairer than my love? The all seeing sun ne’er saw her match since first the world began (92)

Nurse tells Juliet that she must decide of marriage. Act 1, scene 3.

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“Well think of marriage now. Younger than you here in Verona, ladies of esteem are already made mothers.” (71)

Romeo has a preminition something terrible will happen. Act 1, scene 4

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(Romeo) 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 despised life closed in my breast by some vile forfeit of untimely death. But he that hath the steerage of my course, directs my sail. On, lusty gentlemen! (108)

Romeo falls in love with Juliet at first sight. Act 1, scene 5

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(Romeo) “Beauty too rich for use, for earth too dear. So shows a snowy dove trooping with crows as yonder lady o’er her fellows shows” (44-47)

Tybalt has had enough. Act 1, scene 5

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(Tybalt) “Now, by the stock and honor of my kin, to strike him dead i hold it not a sin” (56-57)

Lord Capulet checks Tybalt at the party. Act 1, scene 5

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(Lord Capulet) Show a fair presence and off put these frowns, an ill-beseeming semblance for a feast. (71-72)

Lord Capulet shall make the decisions. Act 1, scene 5

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(Lord Capulet) He shall be endured. What, goodman boy! I say, he shall. Go to. Am I the master here, or you? (76-79

Romeo's mistake. Act 1, scene 5

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(Romeo) Is she a capulet? O dear account! My life is my foe’s debt. (116-117)

Juliet's realization Act 1, scene 5

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(Juliet) My only love sprung from my only hate! Too early seen unknown, and known too late! Prodigious birth of love it is to me, that i must love a loathed enemy. (136-139)

Romeo would rather be stabbed than not see Juliet. Act 2, Scene 2, lines 77-78

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And but thou love me, let them find me here. My life were better ended by their hate than death prorogued, wanting of thy love.

Romeo's love is like a map. Act 2, scene 2, lines 80-84

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By love, that first did prompt me to inquire. he lent me counsel and I lent him eyes. I am no pilot. Yet, wert thou as far as that vast shore washed with teh farthest sea, I would adventure for such merchendise.

Rosaline who? Act 2, scene 3

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(Romeo) With Rosaline, my ghostly father? no. I have forgot that name and that name's woe. (45-46)

Romeo comes in peace. Act 2, Scene 3.

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I bear no hatred, blessed man, for, lo, my intercession likewise steads my foe.

Friar Lawrence questions Romeo's thought process. Act 2, scene 3.

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Holy Saint Francis, what a change is here! Is Rosaline, whom though dids't love so dear, so soon forsaken? Young men's love then lies not truly in their hearts, but in their eyes.

Friar Lawrence has a trick up his sleeve. Act 2, scene 3

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They love did read by rote, that could not spell. But come, young waverer, come, go with me. in one respect ill thy assistant be, for this alliance may so happy prove to turn your households' rancor to pure love.

Mercutio foreshadows his own death. Act 2, Scene 4

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(Benvolio): Why, what is Tybalt?

(Mercutio): More than the Prince of Cats. Oh, he's the courageous capatain of compliments. He fights as you sing prick-song, keeps time, distance, and proportion. He rests his minim rests - one, two, and the third in your bosom. The very butcher of a silk button. (17-22)

Mercutio has a laugh at Romeo's expense. Act 2, Scene 4

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Without his roe, like a dried herring. o flesh, flesh how art thou fishified! now is he for the numbers the petarch flowed in. laura to his lady was but a kitchen-wench. (34-36)

Romeo says Mercutio is only good for laughs and no other reason. Act 2, scene 4

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thou wast never with me for anything when thou wast not there for the goose. (65)

Nurse tells Juliet of her foolish choice. Act 2, scene 5

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well, you have made a simple choice. you know not how to choose a man. (38)

Friar Lawrence foreshadows something terrible. Act 2, scene 6

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So smile the heavens upon this holy act. that after hours with sorrow chide us not. (1-2)

Mercutio doesn't care about the Capulets

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Act 3, Scene 1, lines 32-33: Benvolio: "By my head, here come the capulets!"

Mercutio: "By my heel, I care not".

Romeo's "all or nothing" mindset Act 3, Scene 1

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Mercutio's soul is but a little way above our heads, staying for thine to keep him company. either thou or I, or both, must go with him. (122-125)

Lady Capulet's Blood Price. Act 3, Scene 1

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(Lady Capulet) Oh, the blood is spilled of my dear kinsman! Prince, as thou ar true, For blood of ours shed blood of Montague. (144-146).

Montague has a slightly different idea. Act 3, Scene 1

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Not Romeo, Prince, he was Mercutio's friend. His fault concludes but what the law should end, The life of Tybalt. (180-182)

Lady Capulet calls cap. Act 3, Scene 1

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(Lady Capulet) He is a kinsmen to Montague. Affection makes him false. He speaks not true. (172-173)

Juliet is not in control of her own decision making, Nurse's words are. (Act 3, Scene 2)

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(Juliet) If he be slain say "ay" of if not, "no". Brief sounds determine of my weal or woe.

A grim idea for Juliet. Act 3, Scene 2

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(Juliet) Vile earth, to earth resign. End motion here, and thou and Romeo press one heavy bier. (60-61)

You really can't trust a man. (Act 3, Scene 2)

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(Nurse) There's no trust, no faith, no honesty in men. All perjured. All forsworn, all naught, all dissemblers. (87-88)

Juliet is 10x sadder about Romeo than Tybalt. Act 3, Scene 2

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That "banished" that one word "banished" hath slain ten thousand Tybalts. Tybalt's death was woe enough, if it had ended there.

Romeo is a walking disaster (Act 3, Scene 3)

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(Friar Lawrence) Romeo, Come forth. Come forth, thou fearful man. affliction is enamoured of thy parts, and thou art wedded to calamity. (1-3)

Friar Lawrence snaps back at Romeo (Act 3, Scene 3)

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(Friar Lawrence) O deadly sin! O Rude unthankfulness! Thy fault our law calls death, but the kind Prince, taking thy part, hath rushed aside the law, and turned that black word "death" to "banishment". This is dear mercy, and thou seest it not. (24-28)

Romeo is ready to stab himself for Juliet's approval (Act 3, Scene 3)

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(Romeo) O tell me, Friar, tell me, in what vile part of this anatomy doth my name lodge? Tell me, that I may the the hateful mansion (draws his dagger) (105-108)

Friar Lawrence tells Romeo to check himself (Act 3, Scene 3)

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(Friar Lawrence) Thy tears are womanish. Thy wild acts denote the unreasonable fury of a beast. Unseemly woman in a seeming man, and ill-beseeming beast in seeming both! Thou hast amazed me. By my holy order, I thought thy disposition better tempered. (110-114)

Funeral for Tybalt? Nah Act 3, Scene 4

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(Lord Capulet) For, hark you, Tybalt being slain so late, it may be thought he held him carelessly, being our kinsman, if we revel too much. there fore we'll have some half a dozen friends. (25-29)

Juliet foreshadows Romeo's death. Act 3, Scene 5

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O God, I have an ill-divining soul. Methinks I see thee now, thou art so low as one dead in the bottom of a tomb. either my eyesight fails, or thou look'st pale. (52-56)

Lady Capulet has a plan. Act 3, Scene 5

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(Lady Capulet) We will have vengeance for it, fear thou not. then weep no more. I'll send to one in Mantua, where that same banished ronagate doth live. Shall give him such an unacustomed dram that he shall soon keep Tybalt company. And then, I hope, thou wilt be satisfied. (87-92)

If you disagree with Lord Capulet, you will be called names. Act 3, Scene 5.

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(Lord Capulet) But fettle your fine joints 'gainst Thursday next to go with Paris to Saint Peter's Church, I will drag thee on a hurdle thither. Out, you green sickness, carrion! Out, you baggage! You tallow face! (153-158)

Friar Lawrence urges caution to Paris. Act 4, scene 1

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(Friar Lawrence) you say you do not know the lady's mind. Uneven is the course. I like it not. (4-5)

Juliet belongs to Count Paris, apparently. Act 4, Scene 1.

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(Paris) thy face is mine, and thou hast slandered it.

(Juliet) It may be so, for it is not mine own. (36-37)

Juliet has a solution in mind. Act 4, scene 1.

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(Juliet) If in thy wisdom thou canst give no help, do thou but call my resolution wise, and with this knife I'll help it presently (shows him a knife) (53-56)

Friar Lawrence offers Juliet a way out. Act 4, Scene 1.

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I do spy a kind of hope, which craves as desperate an execution as that is desperate which we would prevent.... Thou hast the strength of will to slay theyself then is it likely thou wilt undertake a thing like death to chide away this shame. that copest with death himself to 'scape from it. And if thou darest, I'll give thee remedy". (69-77)

Remember guys, the worst she can say is "no" . Act 4, Scene 1

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(Juliet) O, bid me leap, rather than marry Paris. From off the battlements of yonder tower; or walk in thievish ways; or bid me lurk where serpents are; chain me with roaring bears; or shut me nightly in a charnel house, o'ercovered uite with dead men's rattling bones, with reeky shanks and yellow chapless skulls; or bid me go to a new-made grave and hide me with a dead man in his shroud. (78-87)

Lord Capulet is happy to reclaim his daughter Act 4, Scene 2

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Against tomorrow, my heart is a wondrous light. since this same wayward girl is so reclaimed. (48-49)

Romeo is once again guided by his dream. Act 5, Scene 1

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If I may trust the flattering truth of sleep, My dreams presage some joyful news at hand. (1-2)

Balthasar warns Romeo. Act 5, Scene 1.

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(Balthasar) I do beseech you, sir, have patience. Your looks are pale and wild, and do import some misadventure. (27-30)

Romeo dismisses Balthasar's advice. Act 5, Scene 1.

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Tush, thou art deceived. Leave me and do the thing I bid thee do, Hast thou no letters to me from the Friar? (30-32)

Romeo knows he's being a fool, but does it anyway. Act 5, Scene 1

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(Romeo) O mischeif, thou art swift to enter in the thoughts of desperate men! (37-38)

Romeo presses the Apothecary to obtain poison illegally. Act 5, Scene 1.

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(Apothecary) Such mortal drugs I ahve, but Mantua's law is death to any he that utters them.

(Romeo) Art thou so bare and full of wretchedness, and fear'st to die? Famine is in thy cheeks. Need and oppresssion starveth in thine eyes. Contempt and beggary hands upon thy back. The world is not thy friend nor the world's law. (68-74)

Romeo has violent thoughts toward Balthasar. Act 5, Scene 3.

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(Romeo) But if thou, jealous, dost return to pry in what I farther shall intend to do, by heaven, I will tear thee joint by joint and strew this hungry churchyard with they limbs. The time and my intents are savage, wild. (33-36)

Romeo foreshadows yet another death. Act 5, Scene 3.

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(Romeo, speaking to Juliet's tomb) Thus I enforce thy rotten jaws to open, and in despite I'll cram thee with more food! (47-48)

Paris is a fan of capital punishment. Act 5, scene 3.

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(Paris, speaking to Romeo) Condemned villain, I do apprehend thee. Obey and go with me, for thou must die. (56-57)

Romeo has no problems killing again. Act 5, Scene 3.

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(Romeo, replying to Paris) "Fly hence and leave me. Think upon these gone. Let them affright thee. I beseech thee, youth, put not another sin upon my head by urging me to fury. O, be gone!" (60-64)

Romeo has regret over killing Paris. Act 5, Scene 3.

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(Romeo) "I think he told me Paris should have married Juliet. Said he not so? Or did I dream it so? Or am I mad, hearing him talk of Juliet, To think was so?" (77-82)

Romeo will lie with Juliet until the bitter end. Act 5, Scene 3

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(Romeo) Come, bitter conduct, come unsavoury guide. Thou desperate pilot, now at once run on the dashing rock thy seasick, weary bark. Here's to my love! (drinks the poison)

With her husband dead, Juliet has no choice but to become a nun. Act 5, Scene 3.

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(Friar Lawrence, to Juliet) Come, I'll dispose of thee among a sisterhood of holy nuns. Stay not to question, for the watch is coming. (157-158)

Juliet tries to kiss the poison off Romeo's lips. Act 5, Scene 3

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(Juliet) I will kiss thy lips . Haply some poison doth hang on them, to make me die with a restorative. (164-166)

Juliet stabs herself. Act 5, Scene 3.

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O happy dagger, this is they sheath. There rust and let me die. (stabs herself with Romeo's dagger and dies) (169-172)