ESSAY PLAN FOR AQA GCSE ENGLISH LIT Paper 1 (2023)

Romeo and Juliet:

Fate Quotations
● Chorus: ‘A pair of star-crossed lovers take
their lives’ (Prologue)
● ‘Death mark’d love’(Prologue)
● Juliet: ‘My grave is like to be my wedding
bed.’(Act 1 Scene 5)
● Romeo: ‘O, I am fortune’s fool!’ (Act 3, Scene
1)
● Juliet: ‘O fortune, fortune! All men call thee
fickle’ (Act 3, Scene 5)
● Friar Laurence: ‘Unhappy fortune!’(Act 5, Scene
2)
● Romeo: ‘Is it even so? Then I defy you,
stars!’(Act 5, Scene 1)
● Balthasar: ‘have patience: your looks are pale
and wild’(Act 5, Scene 1)
● Friar Laurence: ‘Fear comes upon me: O,
much I fear some ill unlucky thing,’ (Act 5,
Scene 3)
● Friar Laurence: ‘A greater power than we can
contradict hath thwarted our intents.’(Act 5,
Scene 3)

, Patrichary/Lord Capulet Quotations
● Chorus: ‘ancient grudge breaks into new
mutiny, where civil blood makes civil hand
unclean’ (Prologue)
● Gregory: ‘for the weakest goes to the wall’ (Act
1 Scene)
● Samspon: ‘women, being the weaker vessels
are ever thrust to the wall’ (Act 1 Scene 1)
● Lord Capulet: ‘Let two more summers wither in
their pride, ere we may think her ripe to be a
bride’ (Act 1 Scene 2)
● Lord Capulet: ‘She is the hopeful lady of my
earth’ (Act 1 Scene 2)
● Lord Capulet: ‘I’ll make you quiet’ (Act 1 Scene
5)
● Merticuto: ‘O calm, dishonourable, vile
submission’ (Act 3 Scene 1)
● Romeo: ‘O sweet Juliet, thy beauty hath made
me effeminate’ (Act 3 Scene 1)
● Lord Capulet: ‘But fettle your fine joints ‘gainst
Thursday next, to go with Paris to Saint
Peter’s Church, or I will drag thee on a hurdle
thither. Out, you green-sickness carrion! Out,
you baggage! You tallow-face!’(Act 3 Scene 5)
● Lord Capulet:‘My fingers itch’(Act 3 Scene 5)
● Lord Capulet ‘An you be mine, I’ll give you to
my friend’(Act 3 Scene 5)