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22 Cards in this Set
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From forth the fatal loins of these two foes/A pair of star-cross'd lovers take their life; life; |
Prologue: The two families are deadly enemies - they cause the birth and death of their children who fell in love. |
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If ever you disturb our streets again,Your lives shall pay the forfeit of the peace |
Prince: Gives a death sentence for the two families that are fighting |
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She hath forsworn to love |
Romeo: upset Rosaline doesn't love him. |
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My child is yet a stranger in the world |
Capulet: tells Paris Juliet is too young to marry |
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The earth hath swallow'd all my hopes but she |
Capulet: reminds Paris Juliet us his only child. |
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It is an honour I dream not of. |
Juliet: has no thoughts of getting married yet |
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She gallops... through lovers' brains, and then they dream of love |
Mercutio: says he had a dream of Queen Mab the fairy who influences lovers |
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O, she doth teach the torches burn bright! |
Romeo: his first glimpse of Juliet - she is brighter than torch flames |
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I ne'er saw true beauty till this night |
Romeo: forgets about Rosaline |
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To strike him dead I hold it not a sin |
Tybolt: vows to kill Romeo for gate crashing |
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My only love sprung from my only hate! |
Juliet: the nurse tells her she fell in love with Romeo a Montague |
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But,soft what light through yonder window breaks? It is the east, and Juliet is the sun |
Romeo: metaphors, Juliet is Romeos sun |
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Deny thy father and refuse thy name |
Juliet: wishes Romeo wasn't a Montague |
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O gentle Romeo,/ if thou dost love, pronounce it faithfully: |
Juliet: wants Romeo to pronounce his love after one meeting |
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Old folks, many feign as they were dead;/ Unwieldy, slow, heavy and pale as lead |
Juliet: complains about nurse who is late back from organising the wedding to Romeo |
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I am hurt. A plaugue o' both your houses |
Mercutio: Tybalt has fatally stabbed him while Romeo tried to stop them fighting |
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O, I am fortunes fool! |
Romeo: says he's tricked by bad luck |
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That 'banished', that one word 'banished', Hath slain ten thousand Tybalts |
Juliet: hearing Romeo is banished is worse than Tybalts death. |
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Hang thee, young baggage! disobedient wretch ! |
Capulet: threatens Juliet who refused to marry Paris |
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Romeo, I come! this do I drink to thee |
Juliet drinks the sleeping potion to appear dead |
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Thus with a kiss I die |
Romeo: drinks poison to 'join' Juliet |
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All are punish'd |
Every one is punished by loss of family and death due to feud |
