Romeo:
● “O brawling love, O loving hate”
○ Oxymoron
○ Describes love as a form of conflict that he is hurt by
● “This love feel I, that feel no love in this”
○ Chiastic structure
● “Profane with my unworthiest hand this holy shrine” - entire scene has heavy
religious imagery, shows their love as pure, holy
● “O she doth teach the torches to burn bright” - fire symbolises how their love is bright
but can also be destructive/consuming
● “Call me but love, and I’ll be new baptised”
● “My life were better ended by their hate than death prorogued wanting of thy love”
● “And so good Capulet, which name I tender as dearly as mine own”
● “Put not another sin upon my head”
● “Here’s to my love…Thus with a kiss I die”
Juliet:
● “And palm to palm in holy palmers’ kiss” - more religious imagery
● “Romeo, doff thy name and for thy name which is no part of thee, take all myself”
● “If thou dost love, pronounce it faithfully”
● “Parting is such sweet sorrow”
● “O break, my heart, poor bankrout, break at once!”
● “And death, not Romeo, take my maidenhead”
● “He shall not make me a joyful bride”
● “Love give me strength, and that strength shall help afford”
● “O happy dagger, This is thy sheath; there rust and let me die”
● “My grave is like to be my wedding bed”
Friar Lawrence:
● “Within the infant rind of this weak flower, Poison hath residence and medicine
power”
○ Dichotomy of good and evil
○ Duality of mankind
● “Women may fall, when there’s no strength in men”
● “To turn your household’s rancour to pure love”
● “These violent delights have violent ends” - foreshadowing
● “And thou art wedded to calamity”
● “Wilt thou slay thyself and slay thy lady that in thy life lives”
● “I am the greatest, able to do the least”
Tybalt:
● “To strike him dead I hold it not a sin”
● “Peace be with you good sir” - before arguing with mercutio
● “Peace? I hate the word/As I hate hell, all montagues and thee”
Conflict:
● “O brawling love, O loving hate”
○ Oxymoron
○ Describes love as a form of conflict that he is hurt by
● “This love feel I, that feel no love in this”
○ Chiastic structure
● “Profane with my unworthiest hand this holy shrine” - entire scene has heavy
religious imagery, shows their love as pure, holy
● “O she doth teach the torches to burn bright” - fire symbolises how their love is bright
but can also be destructive/consuming
● “Call me but love, and I’ll be new baptised”
● “My life were better ended by their hate than death prorogued wanting of thy love”
● “And so good Capulet, which name I tender as dearly as mine own”
● “Put not another sin upon my head”
● “Here’s to my love…Thus with a kiss I die”
Juliet:
● “And palm to palm in holy palmers’ kiss” - more religious imagery
● “Romeo, doff thy name and for thy name which is no part of thee, take all myself”
● “If thou dost love, pronounce it faithfully”
● “Parting is such sweet sorrow”
● “O break, my heart, poor bankrout, break at once!”
● “And death, not Romeo, take my maidenhead”
● “He shall not make me a joyful bride”
● “Love give me strength, and that strength shall help afford”
● “O happy dagger, This is thy sheath; there rust and let me die”
● “My grave is like to be my wedding bed”
Friar Lawrence:
● “Within the infant rind of this weak flower, Poison hath residence and medicine
power”
○ Dichotomy of good and evil
○ Duality of mankind
● “Women may fall, when there’s no strength in men”
● “To turn your household’s rancour to pure love”
● “These violent delights have violent ends” - foreshadowing
● “And thou art wedded to calamity”
● “Wilt thou slay thyself and slay thy lady that in thy life lives”
● “I am the greatest, able to do the least”
Tybalt:
● “To strike him dead I hold it not a sin”
● “Peace be with you good sir” - before arguing with mercutio
● “Peace? I hate the word/As I hate hell, all montagues and thee”
Conflict:
