Romeo and Juliet: key quotes latest 2023 graded A

Romeo and Juliet: key quotes latest 2023 graded A "It is an honor that I dream not of." (1.3.70) ✔Ans✔ Speaker: Juliet Context: Juliet is responding to her mother's question of 'will you marry?' Meaning: Marriage i ...

Romeo and Juliet: key quotes latest 2023 graded A "It is an honor that I dream not of." (1.3.70) ✔Ans✔ Speaker: Juliet Context: Juliet is responding to her mother's question of 'will you marry?' Meaning: Marriage is not something Juliet has thought of. "Well, in that you miss: she'll not be hit with Cupid's arrow" (1.1.194) ✔Ans✔ Speaker: Romeo Context: Romeo is explaining to his cousin, Benvolio, that he is in love Meaning: Romeo's love wishes to stay a virgin. "O she is rich in beauty, only poor, that when she dies with beauty dies her story" (1.1.201). ✔Ans✔ Speaker: Romeo Context: Explaining to his cousin that he is in love Meaning: When she dies, she will cut off all beauty from future generations. "Read o'er the volume of young Paris' face, and find delight writ there with beauty's pen" (1.3.85). ✔Ans✔ Speaker: Lady Capulet Context: Lady Capulet is trying to explain why Juliet should marry Paris Meaning: Paris is like a book and Juliet will be the cover that holds it together. "This precious book of love, the unbound lover, to beautify him only lacks a cover" (1.3.91) ✔Ans✔ Speaker: Lady Capulet Context: She is trying to explain why Juliet should marry Paris Meaning: Juliet is a beautiful thing for Juliet to have. "From ancient grudge to new mutiny, where civil blood makes civil hands unclean" (prologue) ✔Ans✔ Speaker: Narrator Context: Explaining the events of what came before Romeo and Juliet's death Meaning: The two households, the Montague's and the Capulet's, are in feud that makes them fight and shed civilian blood. "From forth the fatal loins of these two foes a pair of star- crossed lovers take there life" (prologue) ✔Ans✔ Speaker: Narrator Context: Explaining what caused Romeo and Juliet's deaths Meaning: Because of all the fighting, a Montague (Romeo) and a Capulet (Juliet) who are lovers, kill themselves. "Here's much to do with hate, but more with love. Why, then, O brawling love! O loving hate! O anything of nothing first create!" (1.1.176) ✔Ans✔ Speaker: Romeo Context: Romeo is explaining Rosaline to his older brother, Benvolio Meaning: Romeo is heartbroken that Rosaline doesn't love him and he doesn't know what to do. "I'll look to like if looking liking more: But no more will I endart mine eye than your consent gives strength to make it fly (1.3.101) ✔Ans✔ Speaker: Juliet Context: Juliet is trying to explain to her mother in the simplest way possible that she doesn't want to be involved in the relationship Meaning: She wants to be an obedient daughter to her mother, but in a way that she never mentions love. "My lips, two blushing pilgrims, ready stand to smooth that rough touch with a tender kiss" (1.5.94) ✔Ans✔ Speaker: Romeo Context: Romeo is explaining to Juliet of how beautiful she is Meaning: Romeo is about to commit the gentle sin of replacing the rough touch of his kiss by kissing her. "Good pilgrim, you do wrong your hands too much, which mannerly devotion shows in this; for saints have hands that pilgrims' hands do touch, and palm to palm is holy palmers' kiss" (1.5.105) ✔Ans✔ Speaker: Juliet Context: Juliet is explaining to Romeo how saints kiss Meaning: Saints pray with their lips, but there lips are not for kissing. "But, soft! What light through yonder window breaks? It is the east and Juliet is the sun" (2.2.1) ✔Ans✔ Speaker: Romeo Context: Romeo is trying to tell Juliet how beautiful she is Meaning: Romeo thinks Juliet is more beautiful than the sun. "O, speak again, bright angel! for thou art as glorious to this night, being o'er my head as is a winged messenger of heaven (2.2.27) ✔Ans✔ Speaker: Romeo Context: Juliet is on the balcony and Romeo wants Juliet to say another thing Meaning: Romeo thinks that Juliet is a beautiful as the sky.