One of your additional assignments is to read or reread and then watch Romeo and Juliet. What is your favorite line from the play and why?
One of my favorite lines is from the scene where Juliet runs to the Friar after hearing that she must commit bigamy by marrying the County Paris. The line shows the beauty of Shakespeare's parallelism:
"O! shut the door! and when thou hast done so,/Come weep with me; past hope, past cure, past help!"
I look forward to hearing yours.
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One of my favorite is from the scene where Romeo is in one of the halls in Capulet's house and he speaks to a servingman about a young lady.
ReplyDeleteThe line shows how someone can see their true love like no other person in the world.
"O, she doth teach the torches to burn bright!
It seems she hangs upon the cheek of night
Like a rich jewel in an Ethiope's ear;
Beauty too rich for use, for earth too dear!
So shows a snowy dove trooping with crows,
As yonder lady o'er her fellows shows.
The measure done, I'll watch her place of stand,
And, touching hers, make blessed my rude hand.
Did my heart love till now? forswear it, sight!
For I ne'er saw true beauty till this night."
Kevin Cabe
My favorite quote the play is that of Friar Lawrence in his cell with Romeo and he tells Romeo
ReplyDelete"These violent delights have violent end,s and in their triumph die like fire and powder which as they kiss consume. The sweetest honey is loathesome in his own delicousness and in the taste confounds the appetite: Therefore love moderately; long love doth so; Too swift arrives as tardy as too slow"
I like how he says this because he's saying too love too much too fast will ultimately end because the intesity of the passion burns out too quickly leaving nothing in it wake.
Mine comes from Act 4, Scene 5 when Capulet finds out that Juliet is dead.
ReplyDelete"Ready to go,but never to return.O son! the night before thy wedding-day Hath Death lain with thy wife.There she lies, Flower as she was, deflowered by him. Death is my son-in-law, Death is my heir; My daughter he hath wedded: I will die, And leave him all;life, living, all is deaths."
It draws my attention because he is saying without her he has nothing left and wants to die to be together with Juliet, and how death is cruel and can take whatever he likes because it all belongs to him(Death).
My favorite line from Romeo and Juliet is, “That which we call a rose / By any other word would smell as sweet”.
ReplyDeleteJuliet is saying that a person is not defined by their name because with or without the name their still the same person. A name is just a label. It doesn't matter what you name a dog, it is still classified as a dog.
Lindsay Davis
"A glooming peace this morning with it brings.
ReplyDeleteThe sun for sorrow will not show his head.
Go hence to have more talk of these sad things.
Some shall be pardoned, and some shall be punished.
For never was a story of more woe
Than this of Juliet and her Romeo."
i like this quote the best because even though there is peace darkness has still triumphed over light and not even the punishment that is do can not make up for a story whith such sadness.
Cheyanne Hall
ACT II.2
ReplyDelete"She Speaks.
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.."
I chosed this quote because it demonstrates how Romeo truly loves Juliet even though they can't be toghether. With every word he saids you can feel the passion in them.
ACT 1, Scene 5
ReplyDelete"My only love sprung from my only hate!
Too early seen unknown, and known too late!
Prodigious birth of love it is to me,
That I must love a loathed enemy."
I like this quote because even though Romeo is a Montague an should be hated she can't do anything but to love him. Juliet fell in love with a hated enemy.
Silvia Guzman
My favorite quote comes from Act 2 Scene 2 in the Capulet's Orchard, Romeo's words.
ReplyDelete"With love's light wings did I o'er-perch these walls; For stony limits cannot hold love out, And what love can do that dares love attempt; Therefore thy kinsmen are no let to me."
Romeo displays his affection numerous times throughout the play, but this quote lets Juliet know that he will fight for her, and even though their love is famously forbidden, nothing and no one will stop him.
Romeo, Act I, Scece IV
ReplyDelete"Is love a tender thing? it is too rough,
Too rude, too boisterous, and it pricks like thorn"
I like how Romeo refers to love as painful and rough instead of the cliche alternative of amazing and beautiful.
Although love is amazing, the tough parts are what define it.
Perla Carreon
mercutio ACT I scene IV
ReplyDelete"If love be rough with you, be rough with love prick love for pricking and beat love down."
This is when mercutio and romeo are talking about love. Asking the question that every human asks "what is love?"
mercutio is advising romeo... just because he has been hurt doesn't mean lifes over. continue his life and don't let the fact that he was heartbroken end his lovelife. Because love is out their he just needs to find it!
Act V Scene III
ReplyDeleteJULIET
Go, get thee hence, for I will not away.
(Exit FRIAR LAURENCE)
What's here? a cup, closed in my true love's hand?
Poison, I see, hath been his timeless end:
O churl! drunk all, and left no friendly drop
To help me after? I will kiss thy lips;
Haply some poison yet doth hang on them,
To make die with a restorative.
(Kisses him)
Thy lips are warm
I really like this quote that Juliet said because this is saying that Juliet is willing to give her life to be with romeo , her one true love. This just goes to show that her love for him is very immense.And even if Romeo finished all the poison she is goinig to make an effort and find poison on his lips, if there is any left.
Veronica Mena
"The brightness of her cheek would shame those stars,
ReplyDeleteAs daylight doth a lamp; her eyes in heaven
Would through the airy region stream so bright
That birds would sing and think it were not night."
I like this quote because it is a great example of imagery and of the beauty that Romeo sees in Juliet. He says that her beauty is beyond anything else. He says that her beauty shines brighter than the stars and brightens the night.
Act 2 Scene 2
Sammy Chinchilla
"O sweet Juliet,
ReplyDeleteThy beauty hath made me effeminate
And in my temper softened valor's steel! "
I like this quote because Romeo tells Juliet how weak her beauty has made him. He says how strong he had been until he saw her beauty. She made his strenght that was once as strong as steel weak .Like how somebody makes you weak when you fall in love that now anything,that person does can hurt you.Your no longer as strong as you once were.
Act 3 Scene 2:
ReplyDelete"O serpent heart, hid with a flow'ring face!
Did ever dragon keep so fair a cave?
Beautiful tyrant! fiend angelical!
Dove-feathered raven! wolvish-ravening lamb!
Despised substance of divinest show!
Just opposite to what thou justly seem'st-
A damned saint, an honorable villain!
O nature, what hadst thou to do in hell
When thou didst bower the spirit of a fiend
In mortal paradise of such sweet flesh?
Was ever book containing such vile matter
So fairly bound? O, that deceit should dwell
In such a gorgeous place!"
The metaphor in the first two lines, and the conflicts in this line as a whole reflect the story's major conflicts. He is a sworn enemy, a born monster to Juliet and her family, yet he is the love of her love, even after he has slain her cousin Tybalt. She can not help but love him, love comes in all shapes and forms.
Michael Herndon
"it is east and Juliet is the sun"
ReplyDeleteI am a hopeloss romantic that is why I choose this quote. It is my favorite because Romeo is trying to say that Juliet is like the sun that rise in the east and that she is the center of his world.
Vy Le