1. ‘a pair of star cross’d lovers take their life’ p3

CHORUS – Prologue

2. ‘ancient grudge’ p3

CHORUS – Prologue

3. ‘Some consequence yet hanging in the stars...By some vile forfeit of untimely death’ p37

ROMEO – Before the party sensing something bad will happen

4. ‘by the stock and honour of my kin/To strike him dead I hold it not a sin’ p41

TYBALT – unhappy to see Romeo at the Capulet’s ball and vows revenge

5. ‘my grave is like to be my wedding bed.’ p45

JULIET – foreshadows her own death

6. ‘My only love sprung from my only hate’ p45

JULIET – finds out Romeo is a Montague – family rivalry

7. ‘It is the east and Juliet, is the sun.’ p53

ROMEO – balcony scene, praising Juliet’s beauty

8. ‘Tis but thy name that is my enemy’ p53

JULIET – forbidden nature of love

9. ‘It is too rash, too unadvised, too sudden/ Too like the lightning, which doth cease to be.’p59

JULIET concerned that everything is happening too quickly

10. ‘For this alliance may so happy prove/To turn your households’ rancour to pure love.’p69

FRIAR LAWRENCE – agrees to perform the marriage in an attempt to end the feud

11.‘These violent delights have violent ends’ p87

FRIAR LAWRENCE – warning not to be so hasty, foreshadowing death at the end

12.‘Thou art a villain’ p93

TYBALT – Tybalt angry with Romeo because he loves Juliet

13.‘O calm, dishonourable, vile submission!’ p93

MERCUTIO – disgusted by Romeo’s unwillingness to defend his honour

14.‘A plague ‘a both houses!’ p95

MERCUTIO – dying words show the consequences of the ancient grudge

15.‘O, I am fortune’s fool!’ p97

ROMEO – feels like fate is to blame after he kills Tybalt

16.‘I think she will be ruled/In all respects by me’ p121

LORD CAPULET – to Paris showing patriarchal rule

17.‘I would the fool were married to her grave.’p133

LADY CAPULET – would rather Juliet was dead than disobedient

18.‘Hang thee, young baggage, disobedient wretch!’ p133

LORD CAPULET – angry with Juliet

19.‘And you be mine, I’ll give you to my friend;/And you be not, hang, beg, starve, die in the streets’ p135

LORD CAPULET – shows his possession of Juliet/ patriarchal society

20.‘I defy you, stars!’ p173

ROMEO – believes Juliet is dead and is angry with fate, deciding to kill himself

Romeo and Juliet

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