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Romeo and Juliet: Love and Marriage

Resources to support the year nine study of Romeo and Juliet
Love at First Sight:
Scene 1: "I ne'er saw true beauty till this night."
  • Romeo, Act 1, Scene 5
Scene 2: "Did my heart love till now? Forswear it, sight! For I ne'er saw true beauty till this night."
  • Romeo, Act 1, Scene 5
The Power of Love:
Scene 2: "But soft! What light through yonder window breaks? It is the east, and Juliet is the sun!"
  • Romeo, Act 2, Scene 2
Scene 6: "These violent delights have violent ends And in their triumph die, like fire and powder, Which, as they kiss, consume."
  • Friar Laurence, Act 2, Scene 6
The Role of Fate:
Prologue: "A pair of star-crossed lovers take their life."
  • Chorus, Prologue
Scene 4: "I fear, too early; for my mind misgives Some consequence yet hanging in the stars Shall bitterly begin his fearful date With this night's revels and expire the term Of a despised life, closed in my breast, By some vile forfeit of untimely death."
  • Romeo,

Love and Marriage:

Scene 2: "But my true love is grown to such excess I cannot sum up sum of half my wealth."

  • Romeo, Act 1, Scene 1

Scene 3: "Go, girl, seek happy nights to happy days."

  • Nurse, Act 1, Scene 3