Q&A: romeo and juliet quotes/?
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Question by waterlily612786: romeo and juliet quotes/?
can you please tell me te significance each quote has to the story?
“my only love sprung from my only hate! too early seen unknown too late! prodigious birth of love it is to me that i mist love a loathed enemy”
“but soft! what lghts through yonder window breaks? it is the east and juliet is the sun”
“o romeo, romeo, wherefor artthou romeo?”
“wisely and slow. they stumble that run fast”
“tybalt, the kindsman to old capulet hath sent a letter to his fathers house”
“tybalt, the reason that i have to love thee doth much excuse the appertaining rage to such a greeting”
“a plague a’both your houses! they have made worms’ meat of me”
“oh i have bought the mansion of a love, but not possessed it; and though i am sold, not yet enjoyed”
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Answer by unpredicktaboh
“o romeo, romeo, wherefor artthou romeo?”
Juliet speaks these lines, perhaps the most famous in the play, in the balcony scene. Leaning out of her upstairs window, unaware that Romeo is below in the orchard, she asks why Romeo must be Romeo—why he must be a Montague, the son of her family’s greatest enemy (“wherefore” means “why,” not “where”; Juliet is not, as is often assumed, asking where Romeo is). Still unaware of Romeo’s presence, she asks him to deny his family for her love. She adds, however, that if he will not, she will deny her family in order to be with him if he merely tells her that he loves her.
A major theme in Romeo and Juliet is the tension between social and family identity (represented by one’s name), and one’s inner identity. Juliet believes that love stems from one’s inner identity, and that the feud between the Montagues and the Capulets is a product of the outer identity, based only on names. She thinks of Romeo in individual terms, and thus her love for him overrides her family’s hatred for the Montague name. She says that if Romeo were not called “Romeo” or “Montague,” he would still be the person she loves. “What’s in a name?” she asks. “That which we call a rose / By any other word would smell as sweet”.
“but soft! what lghts through yonder window breaks? it is the east and juliet is the sun”
Romeo speaks these lines in the so-called balcony scene, when, hiding in the Capulet orchard after the feast, he sees Juliet leaning out of a high window . Though it is late at night, Juliet’s surpassing beauty makes Romeo imagine that she is the sun, transforming the darkness into daylight. Romeo likewise personifies the moon, calling it “sick and pale with grief” at the fact that Juliet, the sun, is far brighter and more beautiful. Romeo then compares Juliet to the stars, claiming that she eclipses the stars as daylight overpowers a lamp—her eyes alone shine so bright that they will convince the birds to sing at night as if it were day.
This quote is important because in addition to initiating one of the play’s most beautiful and famous sequences of poetry, it is a prime example of the light/dark motif that runs throughout the play. Many scenes in Romeo and Juliet are set either late at night or early in the morning, and Shakespeare often uses the contrast between night and day to explore opposing alternatives in a given situation. Here, Romeo imagines Juliet transforming darkness into light; later, after their wedding night, Juliet convinces Romeo momentarily that the daylight is actually night (so that he doesn’t yet have to leave her room).
hope these two quotes help. and i hope you can figure out the rest
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“my only love…” it’s at the end of the masquerade when Juliet discovers the identity of Romeo, being a Montague. It’s serious oxymorons and antitheses.
“but soft…” famous balcony lines… imagery, used the sun to compare to Juliet
“o romeo” when Juliet sighed about Romeo’s identity and it’s the theory about “names”
“wisely and slow…” a moral of the play, by friar Lawrence, i believe is act 2, scene 3…. it’s about being careful and you’ll not fall… stumblest->fall->downfall->demise
“Tybalt, the kindsman…” Tybalt challenged Romeo to a duel?
“Tybalt, the reason” Romeo did not tell Tybalt the ACTUAL reason…— he had married to juliet, and therefore DRAMATIC IRONY
“a plague a’both…” it’s a curse by Mercutio… he spoke it 3 times and therefore made it a serious curse (when he died)
1- it sucks tht the guy i love i’m supposed to hate because of the family he’s a part of
2-romeo it saying that juliet is so gorgeous shes luminous as the sun, coming from her balcony instead of the sky
3- why are you romeo? why can’t you be someone else, someone who i don’t have to hate?
4- woah, slow down. take things slower. if you move this fasty with juliet, then you gonna get into trouble. people who think befor they act are wiser.
5- uh. this is obvious.
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7- curse both yourfamilies! because of you guys, i’m dying, you’ve destroyed my life (worms meat meaning decaying corpse)
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