Scarica Quotations by Romeo and Juliet e più Guide, Progetti e Ricerche in PDF di Inglese solo su Docsity! Luca Guardamagna, Andreea Paduretu, 3BL "My only love sprung from my only hate" Romeo + Juliet: quotations The title refers immediatly to Romeo and Juliet's story which is one of the most famous love stories all over the world. This ancient story, written by William Shakspeare, is still popular even if it was written in 1597. A lot of phrases taken from this story have become very well-known. "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." (Act I, Scene V) Juliet says this when she finds out who Romeo is. She's expressing a bunch of information and emotion —she's fallen in love with Romeo, but she's upset that he is a Montague. She saw him first and fell for him before she found out who he was . Love now seems very strange to her, that she can love someone she's supposed to hate. Juliet is desperate when she learns that her "only love" has "sprung from her only hate" (he is the son of her family's only enemies, the Montagues). Romeo's answer to the news that Juliet is a Capulet is pretty similar. He says "O dear account! My life is my foe's debt!". “But, soft! what light through yonder window breaks? It is the east, and Juliet is the sun. “ (Act II, Scene II) Romeo says these lines to himself when he is standing in the Capulet’s fruit garden in a bid to see Juliet and she appears on her balcony. As Juliet appears, Romeo compares her to the sun at dawn through these words. He says: But wait, what is that light that breaks through that window, it is Juliet appearing like the sun from the east. "O Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo?" (Act II, Scene II) In the most famous scene of the play, Romeo stands unnoticed under Juliet's balcony as she engages in a fantasized debate. She questions the purpose of Romeo's being Romeo . To be Romeo is to be a Montague while to be Juliet is to be a Capulet, and the Montagues and Capulets have a nasty history of killing one another. Juliet fancies that family identity can be changed along with one's name. The wherefore here means why rather than where. What Juliet is asking, in allusion to the rivalry between her Capulet family and Romeo's Montague clan, is "Romeo, why are you a Montague?" Their love is impossible because of their family names and she asks him to change his allegiance, or else she will change hers. “What’s in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet” (Act II, Scene II) One of Shakespeare’s most quoted quotations in which Juliet is saying that name is just a meaningless convention and a rose by any other name would still be a rose, with all its qualities. She says these lines because she has fallen in love with Romeo who belongs to the family of their rivals and his name makes it very difficult for them to be together. So she is arguing that name of things is not important, what matters is what things “are”.
