FATE VIOLENCE ISOLATION KEY MOMENTSThe prologue introduces theme1.4. Romeo’s premonition3.1. Romeo’s existential crisis3.5, Juliet’s premonition5.1. Romeo defies fate5.3. Romeo’s suicide

KEY QUOTATIONSPRO. A pair of star-cross'd lovers take their life1.4. My mind misgives some consequence yet hanging in the stars 3.1. O, I am fortune's fool!3.5. O God, I have an ill-divining soul!..I see thee…in the bottom of a tomb. 3.5 O Fortune, Fortune! All men call thee fickle5.1 My dreams presage some joyful news at hand5.1. I defy you, stars! 5.3. Shake the yoke of inauspicious stars

KEY MOMENTSThe prologue introduces theme1.1. The civil brawl.1.5. Capulet prevents violence2.6. Friar’s warning3.1. Mercutio/Tybalt fight3.5. Capulet’s threats4.3. Juliet’s violent fears5.3.Deaths of Paris and 2 lovers

KEY QUOTATIONSPRO. From ancient grudge break to new mutiny1.1. Do you bite your thumb sir?1.5. He shall be endured…Am I the master here, or you?1.5. Now seeming sweet convert to bitter gall2.6. These violent delights have violent ends.3.5. My fingers itch4.3. With a club, dash out my desperate brains?5.3. Tempt not a desperate man5.3. Thou desperate pilot, now at once run on the dashing rocks

KEY MOMENTS1.4. Romeo’s lovesick isolation3.2. Juliet learns of banishment3.3. Romeo banished4.1. Suicidal Juliet4.3. Juliet takes potion alone

KEY QUOTATIONS1.4 You have dancing shoes… I have a soul of lead3.2. I'll to my wedding-bed;And death, not Romeo, take my maidenhead!3.3 Ha, banishment! be merciful, say 'death;' 3.3. There is no world without Verona walls, but purgatory, torture, hell itself.4.1. bid me lurk where serpents are; chain me with roaring bears4.3, My dismal scene I needs must act alone.4.3. I have a faint cold fear thrills through my veins

CONTEXT Elizabethans believed fate was controlled by the stars and god planned people’s destiny. Shakespeare was a humanist who believed people contributed to their downfall through a fatal flaw (hamartia) in their character.

CONTEXTShakespeare explores the violence lurking beneath the dignified Venetian society. The violence is always caused by the passion of characters whether it be love or hate.

CONTEXTShakespeare shows how societal and family institutions act as obstacles to the lovers and leave both Romeo and Juliet feeling isolated at various points in the play.

LOVE FAMILY HONOUR DEATH KEY MOMENTS1.1. Lovesick Romeo1.5. Romeo first meets Juliet2.2. Balcony Scene2.3. Friar’s mission to create love between families2.6. Friar’s marriage advice5.3. Suicides of lovers

KEY QUOTATIONS1.1. O brawling love! O loving hate!1.1. Under love’s heavy burden do I sink1.5. If I profane with my unworthiest hand.1.5. You kiss by the book.1.5. My only love sprung from my only hate!2.2. With love's light wings did I o'er-perch these walls2.3. Turn your households' rancour to pure love.2.6. Love moderately5.3. Thus with a kiss I die5.3. Seal with a righteous kissa dateless bargain to engrossing death.

KEY MOMENTSPrologue introduces theme1.2. Capulet’s marriage patience1.3. Juliet’s indifference to Paris2.2. Juliet on Romeo’s name3.1. Mercutio’s disdain3.2. Juliet’s dilemma3.5. Capulet’s impatience4.2. Juliet’s fake obedience5.3. Families reunited

KEY QUOTATIONSPRO. Two households both alike in dignity1.2. Let two more summers wither in their pride, ere we may think her ripe to be a bride.1.3. I'll look to like, if looking liking move.2.2. Deny thy father and refuse thy name2.2. A rose by any other name would smell as sweet3.1. A plague o' both your houses!3.5. Hang thee, young baggage! Disobedient wretch!4.2. I am ever ruled by you5.3. O brother Montague, give me thy hand.

KEY MOMENTSThe Prologue introduces theme1.1. Tybalt’s death threat3.1. Mercutio’s death3.5. Juliet’s premonition4.1. Juliet’s death threat4.4. Capulet’s sorrow5.3. Death personified5.3 Suicide of Romeo and Juliet

KEY QUOTATIONSPRO. Do with their death bury their parents’ strife1.1. Turn thee, Benvolio, look upon thy death.3.1 Ay, ay, a scratch, a scratch 3.5 I have a faint cold fear thrills through my veins 4.1. O, bid me leap, rather than marry Paris4.1. Shut me nightly in a charnel-house4.4. Death lies on her like an untimely frost upon the sweetest flower of all the field.5.3. Shall I believe that unsubstantial death is amorous? 5.3. Thus with a kiss I die5.3 O happy dagger!

CONTEXTShakespeare mocks the conventions of courtly love through Romeo’s feelings towards Rosaline. Courtly love is a non-physical unrequited love. Shakespeare also warns of the dangers of pursuing true love through Romeo and Juliet’s deaths.

CONTEXTFamily honour is presented in both a positive and negative light. Shakespeare uses Capulet to criticise the idea of arranged marriages by the way he forces Juliet to marry Paris and Tybalt to link to the violent volatility of mas-culine society. However, the end of the feud in Act 5 gives both families an opportunity to show honour.

CONTEXT:The Elizabethan era was a highly religious society which considered suicide to be an act of sin that would tarnish family honour. However, the emerging Renaissance movement considered suicide to be honourable and heroic.

FATE KEY MOMENTSThe prologue introduces theme1.4. Romeo’s premonition3.1. Romeo’s existential crisis3.5, Juliet’s premonition5.1. Romeo defies fate5.3. Romeo’s suicide

KEY QUOTATIONSPRO. A pair of star-cross'd lovers take their life1.4. My mind misgives some consequence yet hanging in the stars 3.1. O, I am fortune's fool!3.5. O God, I have an ill-divining soul!..I see thee…in the bottom of a tomb.

3.5 O Fortune, Fortune! All men call thee fickle5.1 My dreams presage some joyful news at hand5.1. I defy you, stars! 5.3. Shake the yoke of inauspicious stars

CONTEXT Elizabethans believed fate was controlled by the stars and god planned people’s destiny. Shakespeare was a humanist who believed people contributed to their downfall through a fatal flaw (hamartia) in their character.

VIOLENCE KEY MOMENTSThe prologue introduces theme1.1. The civil brawl.1.5. Capulet prevents violence2.6. Friar’s warning3.1. Mercutio/Tybalt fight3.5. Capulet’s threats4.3. Juliet’s violent fears5.3.Deaths of Paris and 2 lovers

KEY QUOTATIONSPRO. From ancient grudge break to new mutiny1.1. Do you bite your thumb sir?1.5. He shall be endured…Am I the master here, or you?1.5. Now seeming sweet convert to bitter gall2.6. These violent delights have violent ends.3.5. My fingers itch

4.3. With a club, dash out my desperate brains?5.3. Tempt not a desperate man5.3. Thou desperate pilot, now at once run on the dashing rocks

CONTEXTShakespeare explores the violence lurking beneath the dignified Venetian society. The violence is always caused by the passion of characters whether it be love or hate.

ISOLATION KEY MOMENTS1.4. Romeo’s lovesick isolation3.2. Juliet learns of banishment3.3. Romeo banished4.1. Suicidal Juliet4.3. Juliet takes potion alone

KEY QUOTATIONS1.4 You have dancing shoes… I have a soul of lead3.2. I'll to my wedding-bed;And death, not Romeo, take my maidenhead!3.3 Ha, banishment! be merciful, say 'death;'

3.3. There is no world without Verona walls, but purgatory, torture, hell itself.4.1. bid me lurk where serpents are; chain me with roaring bears4.3, My dismal scene I needs must act alone.4.3. I have a faint cold fear thrills through my veins

CONTEXTShakespeare shows how societal and family institutions act as obstacles to the lovers and leave both Romeo and Juliet feeling isolated at various points in the play.

LOVE

KEY MOMENTS1.1. Lovesick Romeo1.5. Romeo first meets Juliet2.2. Balcony Scene2.3. Friar’s mission to create love between families2.6. Friar’s marriage advice5.3. Suicides of lovers

KEY QUOTATIONS1.1. O brawling love! O loving hate!1.1. Under love’s heavy burden do I sink1.5. If I profane with my unworthiest hand.1.5. You kiss by the book.1.5. My only love sprung from my only hate!2.2. With love's light wings did I o'er-perch these walls2.3. Turn your households' rancour to pure love.2.6. Love moderately5.3. Thus with a kiss I die5.3. Seal with a righteous kissa dateless bargain to engrossing death.

CONTEXTShakespeare mocks the conventions of courtly love through Romeo’s feelings towards Rosaline. Courtly love is a non-physical unrequited love. Shakespeare also warns of the dangers of pursuing true love through Romeo and Juliet’s deaths.

FAMILY HONOUR KEY MOMENTSPrologue introduces theme1.2. Capulet’s marriage patience1.3. Juliet’s indifference to Paris2.2. Juliet on Romeo’s name3.1. Mercutio’s disdain3.2. Juliet’s dilemma3.5. Capulet’s impatience4.2. Juliet’s fake obedience5.3. Families reunited

KEY QUOTATIONSPRO. Two households both alike in dignity1.2. Let two more summers wither in their pride, ere we may think her ripe to be a bride.1.3. I'll look to like, if looking liking move.2.2. Deny thy father and refuse thy name2.2. A rose by any other name would smell as sweet3.1. A plague o' both your houses!3.5. Hang thee, young baggage! Disobedient wretch!4.2. I am ever ruled by you5.3. O brother Montague, give me thy hand.

CONTEXTFamily honour is presented in both a positive and negative light. Shakespeare uses Capulet to criticise the idea of arranged marriages by the way he forces Juliet to marry Paris and Tybalt to link to the violent volatility of mas-culine society. However, the end of the feud in Act 5 gives both families an opportunity to show honour.

DEATH

KEY MOMENTSThe Prologue introduces theme1.1. Tybalt’s death threat3.1. Mercutio’s death3.5. Juliet’s premonition4.1. Juliet’s death threat4.4. Capulet’s sorrow5.3. Death personified5.3 Suicide of Romeo and Juliet

KEY QUOTATIONSPRO. Do with their death bury their parents’ strife1.1. Turn thee, Benvolio, look upon thy death.3.1 Ay, ay, a scratch, a scratch 3.5 I have a faint cold fear thrills through my veins 4.1. O, bid me leap, rather than marry Paris4.1. Shut me nightly in a charnel-house4.4. Death lies on her like an untimely frost upon the sweetest flower of all the field.5.3. Shall I believe that unsubstantial death is amorous? 5.3. Thus with a kiss I die5.3 O happy dagger!

CONTEXT:The Elizabethan era was a highly religious society which considered suicide to be an act of sin that would tarnish family honour. However, the emerging Renaissance movement considered suicide to be honourable and heroic.