Prologue

• “star-crossed” – fate
• “death-marked” – fate
• “ancient grudge” and “parents’ strife” –
point to the feud that the Capulets and
Montagues have. Parents to blame?
• Read Act 1, scene 1.
• Concentrate on collecting quotes for
Romeo
 Act 1, scene 1
• Servants of both houses “your thumb at me”
have picked up the anger of the households and
fight when they meet
• They turn Verona into a battle-ground.
• Tybalt: “I hate hell, all Montagues…”
• Prince (maker of the rules) calls both families:
“Rebellious subjects, enemies to peace”
 Romeo
• Broody: “Out of her favour where I am in
love”; “Love is a smoke made with the
fume of sighs”

Point/Quote Exploration
-bad thing
Love is a smoke made
with the fume of sighs -love can go anywhere
(Act 1, scene 1) -can’t hold on to it
-upsetting
-bad odour / effect; makes you
“ill”
 Romeo
Point/quote Exploration

“My name is hateful to

myself” says to Juliet
 Juliet
• Close relationship with her Nurse.
• Is only 14 years old
• “Can you love Paris?” Mother says to her.
She will have a choice…Exploration
Point/Quote
Juliet is 14 years old She’s young; doesn’t know
about the world
“Can you love Paris?” Act Mother giving Juliet a choice.
1, scene 2 Maybe her mother/parents
are reasonable and Juliet
made a bad decision(?)

“My only love sprung from

my only hate.” Act 1, sc 5
 Juliet
Point/quote Exploration

“tender Juliet” (p. 77,

Prologue Act 2)

“deny thy father, refuse

thy name” Act 2

“thy name is my enemy”

Act 2

“they will kill thee” This foreshadowing

shows…
 Capulets
Point/quote Exploration
Page 39/Act 1, sc 2 *
“Montague is bound as
well as I”..”not hard..for
men so old as we to keep
the peace”
* “she is the hopeful lady
of my earth” (Lord
Capulet about Juliet)
* Says Romeo is a
“virtuous youth”
 Capulets
Point/quote Exploration

Mother is “wise and

virtuous” according to the
Nurse
 The Nurse
Point/quote Exploration

Seems to have prior

knowledge of all that is
happening QUOTE
needed
She meddles too much. If
she works for Lord and
Lady Capulet why is she
delivering Juliet’s
messages? (QUOTE
needed)
 The Nurse
Point/quote Exploration

“there goes a husband to Nurse knows what is

make thee a wife” going to happen. She
works for the Lord and
Lady, why doesn’t she
shop this or at least tell
the Capulets what’s
happening?
 Friar Lawrence
Point/quote Exploration

Knows Romeo well, and

how he “loved Rosaline”.
Why does he believe that
Romeo is really in love
this time?
“turn your households’
rancour to pure love” (Act
2, scene 3)
“Holy Church will make
two into one” (Act 2,
scene 6)
arrogant
 Others…
Point/quote Exploration
Mercutio “Poor Romeo, This could be pointing at
he is already dead.” “Fate” or at “Romeo”
himself who is lovesick—
or so his friends think—
for Rosaline.

Tybalt: calls Romeo a

“villain” (Act 3, scene 1)
 Is “destiny” or “fate” responsible?
• Fate… prologue
• Act 1, scene 4-Romeo: “Some
consequence, yet hanging in the stars”