“Passion lends them power” - Capulet
- R+J’s love makes them both stronger-willed.
- Shows the power of love.
‘”Young men’s love then lies not truly in their hearts but in their eyes” - Friar
- He is skeptical of Romeo’s newfound love.
- Men often lust after women and do not love them.
“I love thee better than thou canst devise” - Romeo (to Tybalt)
- Tybalt is Romeo’s family now.
- Shows how family love was valued very highly in Elizabethan era, and that family was important.
“Is love a tender thing? It is too rough, too rude, too boisterous, and it pricks like a thorn.” - Romeo
- Before meeting Juliet he calls love a harsh, harmful and heartbreaking experience.
- Contrasts after he meets her.
“Had she affections and warm youthful blood, She would be as swift in motion as a ball.” - Juliet (about Nurse)
“I will not budge for no man’s pleasure, I” - Mercutio
- He will not change for anyone and doesn’t care what they think of him.
“O sweet Juliet, thy beauty hath made me effeminate, and in my temper softened valour’s steel.” - Romeo
- His mood is shifting from gentle and loving to angry and vengeful.
- Juliet made him gentle and less aggressive.
- Toxic masculinity- being ‘soft’ is seen as a bad thing.
“With love’s light wings did I o’erperch these walls” - Romeo
- Love gives him strength
“Juliet is the sun” - Romeo
- Figurative language.
- ELEVATES HER - makes her seem otherworldly by comparing her to something physically above everyone.
- The sun has no competition at all. It’s on the next level
“I am afeared … this is but a dream. Too flattering sweet to be substantial’ - Romeo
- He is so in love with Juliet that he thinks he’s imagining it.
- He is afraid of this, showing how much he values their love.
“Like fire and powder which as they kiss consume” - Friar
- Shows the destructive potential of their feelings
“O, she doth teach the torches to burn bright!” - Romeo
- Shock, contrast to ‘night’ in the next line.
- Emphasises the brightness of J’s beauty.
“Did my heart love till now? forswear it, sight! For I ne’er saw true beauty till this night” - Romeo
- His emotions change quickly
- Hypocritical
- Love at first sight for Romeo
“Romeo, Romeo, Romeo! Here’s drink: I drink to thee” - Juliet
- He is her last thought as she drink
- Foreshadows when he is her last thought/ view when she dies at the end.
“Thus with a kiss I die” - Romeo
- He still loves her as he dies- shows their love goes beyond life again.
“Their death-mark’d love” - Chorus
- It was fated to end in death from the start.
“Love is … a madness … a choking gall” - Romeo
- Foreshadows how he will fall for Juliet, but how his idea of love will change as he falls for her.
“The love-devouring Death”- Friar
- Talks about death right next to marriage.
- Shows how death and marriage are linked; foreshadowing.
- Marriage faces death.
“The imagin’d happiness” - Romeo
- Could be a fantasy of love or R+J, not real love.
“Good Capulet, which name I tender as dearly as mine own” - Romeo
- Replacing conflict with love.
- Mirrors balcony scene.
- Shows that Romeo respects Tybalt now.
“The all-seeing sun ne’er saw her match, since first the world begun’’- Romeo
- There has never been someone as beautiful as Juliet
