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This trio of quotes advances the theme of fate as it plays out through the story: the first is spoken by the Chorus (Prologue.5–8), the second by Romeo after he kills Tybalt (3.1.131), and the third by Romeo upon learning of Juliet’s death (5.1.24).
- Act 5: Scene 3
The Prince and the Capulets enter. Romeo, Juliet, and Paris...
- Youth
Here Juliet expresses her impatience for her wedding night....
- Poison
Romeo buys poison from the poor apothecary, which he plans...
- Juliet
Juliet complains that she saw Romeo and fell in love with...
- Act 5: Scene 3
Juliet complains that she saw Romeo and fell in love with him “too early,” before she knew he was her enemy. Almost everything happens to Juliet too early. She is told to prepare herself for marriage before she is ready, she marries Romeo before she can get her parents’ permission, her marriage to Paris is moved forward twice, and Romeo arrives at her tomb before she has time to wake up.
- “A pair of star-crossed lovers take their life. “ (Chorus, Prologue)
- “Abraham: Do you bite your thumb at us, sir? Sampson: I do bite my thumb, sir.” (act 1, scene 1)
- “O teach me how I should forget to think!” Romeo (act 1 scene 1)
- “Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs. Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers’ eyes; Being vex’d a sea nourish’d with lovers’ tears.” Romeo (act 1 scene 1)
By Dr Oliver Tearle (Loughborough University) Romeo and Juliet is one of Shakespeare’s most perennially popular and widely studied plays.Its story of ‘star-cross’d lovers’, whose love for each other is doomed from the start because they belong to rival families in the Italian city of Verona, is one of the most famous love stories in world literature.
However, astrological imagery also reminds the audience that Romeo and Juliet are “star-crossed”—in other words, fated to die. The following lines read “arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon,” suggesting that Romeo’s love for Juliet has supplanted his previous, weaker infatuation with Rosaline.
450 quotes from Romeo and Juliet: ‘These violent delights have violent endsAnd in their triumph die, like fire and powder,Which as they kiss consume. T...
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