romeo thou art a villain ii

7/31/2019 Romeo Thou Art a Villain II

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Understanding Shakespeare: Is Romeo a hero or a villain?

Act I, Scene I: Introducing Romeo: Romeo talks to Benvolio about failing in love with Rosaline.

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ROMEO: Well in that hit you miss, shell not be hit

With Cupids arrow, she hath Dians wit:

And in strong proof of chastity well armd,

From loves weak childish bow she lives uncharmd

She will not stay the siege of loving terms,

Nor bide thincounter of assailing eyes.

Nor ope her lap to saint-seducing gold,O she is rich in beauty, only poor,

That when she dies, with beauty dies her store.

Act I, Scene I: Getting over Rosaline: Romeo vows never to forget Rosaline.

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ROMEO: Farewell, thou canst not teach me to forget.

Act I, Scene II: Persuading Romeo to gate-crash: Benvolio coaxes Romeo to the Capulet Ball.

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BENVOLIO: At this same ancient feast of Capulets,

Sups the fair Rosaline whom thou so loves:

With all the admired beauties of Verona,

Go thither, and with unattained eye,

Compare her face with some that I shall show,

And I will make thee think thy swan a crow.

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Act I, Scene II: Romeo compares Rosaline: Romeo believes no other can match Rosalines beauty.

Page 16Lines 94-95:

ROMEO: One fairer than my love, the all-seeing Sun,

Neer saw her match, since first the world begun.

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Act I, Scene II: Romeo shows his pride: Romeo agrees to attend but will only admire himself.

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ROMEO: Ill go along no such sight to be shown,

But to rejoice in splendour of mine own.

Act I, Scene IV: Boys will be boys: Romeo is teased by his friends.

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MERCUTIO: Nay, gentle Romeo, we must have you dance.

ROMEO: Not I believe me, you have dancing shoes

With nimble soles, I have a soul of lead

So stakes me to the ground I cannot move.

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ROMEO: I am too sore enpierced with his shaft

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ROMEO: Is love a tender thing? It is too rough,

Too rude, too boisterous, and it pricks like a thorn.

Page 22Lines 27-28:

MERCUTIO: If love be rough with you, be rough with love,Prick love for pricking, and you beat love down,

Give me a case to put my visage in,


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Act I, Scene IV: Boys will be boys (continued): Romeo is teased by his friends.

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BENVOLIO: Come knock and enter, and no sooner in,

But every man betake him to his legs.

Lines 38-39:ROMEO: Ill be a candle-holder and look on,

The game was neer so fair, and I am done

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Act I, Scene V: The first meeting of the lovers: Romeo tempts Juliet into a kiss.

Page 28-29Lines 92-109:

ROMEO: If I profane with my unworthiest hand,

This holy shrine, the gentle sin is this:My lips two blushing Pilgrims ready stand

To smooth the rough touch with a tender kiss.

JULIET: Good pilgrim, you do wrong your hand too much,

Which mannerly devotion shows in this,

For saints have hands that pilgrims' hands do touch,

And palm to palm is holy palmers' kiss.

ROMEO: Have not saints lips, and holy palmers too?

JULIET: Ay, pilgrim, lips that they must use in prayer.

ROMEO: O, then, dear saint, let lips do what hands do:

They pray, grant thou, lest faith turn to despair.

JULIET: Saints do not move, though grant for prayers' sake.

ROMEO: Then move not while my prayer's effect I take.

Thus from my lips, by thine, my sin is purgd.

JULIET: Then have my lips the sin that they have took.

ROMEO: Sin from my lips? O trespass sweetly urgd!

Give me my sin again.

JULIET: You kiss by thbook.


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Act II, Scene II: Romeo hides under Juliets window: Romeo eavesdrops on Juliets thoughts.

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JULIET: What man art thou that thus bescreen'd in night

So stumblest on my counsel?

ROMEO: By a name

I know not how to tell thee who I am:

My name, dear saint, is hateful to myself,

Because it is an enemy to thee;

Had I it written, I would tear the word.

JULIET: My ears have not yet drunk a hundred words

Of that tongue's utterance, yet I know the sound.

Art thou not Romeo, and a Montague?

ROMEO: Neither, fair maid, if either thee dislike.

JULIET: How camst thou hither, tell me, and wherefore?

The orchard walls are high and hard to climb,

And the place death, considering who thou art,

If any of my kinsmen find thee here.

ROMEO: 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 stop to me.

JULIET: If they do see thee, they will murder thee.

ROMEO: Alack, there lies more peril in thine eye

Than twenty of their swords. Look thou but sweet,

And I am proof against their enmity.

JULIET: I would not for the world they saw thee here.

ROMEO: I have night's cloak to hide me from their eyes,

And but thou love me, let them find me here:

My life were better ended by their hate,

Than death prorogued, wanting of thy love.

JULIET: By whose direction found'st thou out this place?

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Act II, Scene II: Romeo hides under Juliets window (cont): Romeo eavesdrops on Juliets thoughts.


ROMEO: By love, that first did prompt me to inquire;

He lent me counsel, and I lent him eyes:

I am no pilot, yet wert thou as far

As that vast shore wash'd with the farthest sea,

I should adventure for such merchandise.

JULIET: Thou know'st the mask of night is on my face,

Else would a maiden blush bepaint my cheek,

For that which thou hast heard me speak to-night,

Fain would I dwell on form, fain, fain deny

What I have spoke, but farewell compliment!

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Act II, Scene II: Romeo vows by the moon:Juliet questions Romeos intentions.

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ROMEO: Lady, by yonder blessed Moon I vow,

That tips with silver all these fruit-tree tops.

JULIET: O swear not by the Moon th inconstant Moon,

That monthly changes in her circled orb,Lest that thy love prove likewise variable.

ROMEO: What shall I swear by?

JULIET: Do not swear at all:

Or if thou wilt, swear by thy gracious self,

Which is the god of my idolatry,

And Ill believe thee.Act II, Scene II: Juliet proposes marriage: Romeo belittles Juliet.

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ROMEO: O blessed blessed night, I am afeard

Being in night, all this is but a dream,

Too flattering-sweet to be substantial.

JULIET: Three words dear Romeo, and good night indeed:

If that thy bent of love be honourable,

Thy purpose marriage, send me word to-morrow,


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Act II, Scene III: Romeo visits Friar Laurence: Friar Laurence is expecting a confession from Romeo.

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FRIAR LAURENCE: God pardon sin, wast thou with Roseline?

ROMEO: With Rosaline, my ghostly father no,

I have forgot that name, and that names woe.

Act II, Scene II: Romeo issues a warning to himself: Romeo speaks candidly as Juliet is inside.


ROMEO: A thousand times the worse to want thy light,

Love goes toward love as schoolboys from their books,

But love from love, toward school with heavy looks.

Act II, Scene III: Friar Laurence questions the fickle Romeo: The intentions of men are lamented.

Page 44Lines 65-68:

FRIAR LAURENCE: Holy Saint Francis what a change is here?

Is Rosaline that thou didst love so dear,

So soon forsaken? Young mens love then lies

Not truly in their hearts, but in their eyes:

Line 80:

FRIAR LAURENCE: Women may fall, when theres no strength in men.

Act II, Scene VI:Juliet weds Romeo: Friar Laurence predicts a violent end.

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ROMEO: Amen, amen, but come what sorrow can,

It cannot countervail the exchange of joy

That one short minute gives me in her sight:

Do thou but close our hands with holy words,

Then love-devouring death do what he dare,

It is enough I may but call her mine.

FRIAR LAURENCE: These violent delights have violent ends,

And in their triumph die like fire and powder:


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Act III, Scene I: Mercutio and Tybalt are slain: Romeo proves his cowardice and becomes a murderer.

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TYBALT: Romeo, the hate I bear thee can afford

No better term than this,--thou art a villain.

ROMEO: Tybalt, the reason that I have to love thee

Doth much excuse the appertaining rageTo such a greeting: villain am I none;

Therefore farewell; I see thou know'st me not.

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ROMEO: Draw Benvolio, beat down their weapons:


ROMEO: This gentleman, the prince's near ally,

My very friend hath got his mortal hurt

In my behalf, my reputation stain'd

With Tybalt's slander, Tybalt, that an hour

Hath been my cousin: O sweet Juliet,

Thy beauty hath made me effeminate

And in my temper soften'd valour's steel!


ROMEO: He gone in triumph, and Mercutio slain?

Away to heaven, respective lenity,

And fire and fury, be my conduct now.

Now Tybalt take the villain back again,

Act III, Scene III:Friar Laurence disciplines Romeo: Romeo sinks into self-pity and despair.


FRIAR LAURENCE: Art thou a man? Thy form cries out thou art:

Thy tears are womanish, thy wild acts denote

The unreasonable fury of a beast.

Unseemly woman in a seeming man,

And ill-beseeming beast in seeming both,

Thou hast amazd me.

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ROMEO: How well my comfort is revivd by this.


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Act III, Scene V:Romeo in Juliets bedchamber: The lovers are parted as Romeo flees.


ROMEO: Let me be taen, let me be put to death,

I am content, so thou wilt have it so,

Ill say yon grey is not the mornings eye,

Tis but the pale reflex of Cynthias brow.

Nor that is not the lark whose notes do beatThe vaulty heaven so high above our heads,

I have more care to stay, than will to go:

Come death and welcome, Juliet wills it so.

How ist my soul? Lets talk, it is not the day.

Act V, Scene I:Romeo believes his wife to be dead: Romeo rides out to the Capulet tomb.


ROMEO: Well Juliet, I will lie with thee to-night:

Lets see for means: O mischief thou art swift,

To enter in the thoughts of desperate men.

Act V, Scene I:Romeo purchases a poison: The Apothecary instructs Romeo in the business of death.


APOTHECARY: Put this in any liquid thing you willAnd drink it off, and if you had the strength

Of twenty men, it would dispatch you straight.

Act V, Scene III:Paris is murdered: Romeo murders again, slaying the noble Paris.


ROMEO: Good gentle youth tempt not a desperate man,

Fly hence and leave me, think upon these gone,

Let them affright thee. I beseech thee youth,

Put not another sin upon my head,

By urging me to fury.

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ROMEO: Wilt thou provoke me? Then have at thee boy.

(They fight)


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Act V, Scene III:Romeo enters the tomb and ends his life: Romeo laments his wrongdoings.


ROMEO: In faith I will, let me peruse this face:

Mercutios kinsman, noble County Paris,

What said my man, when my betossed soul

Did not attend him as we rode? I think

He told me Paris should have married Juliet.Said he not so? Or did I dream it so?

Or am I mad, hearing him talk of Juliet,

To think it was so?


ROMEO: Tybalt liest thou there in thy bloody sheet?

O what more favour can I do to thee,

Than with that hand that cut thy youth in twain,To sunder his that was thine enemy?

Forgive me cousin.


ROMEO: O true apothecary:

Thy drugs are quick. Thus with a kiss I die. (Falls.)

Act V, Scene III:Juliet finds Romeo dead and kills herself: It all ends with a dagger to the heart.


JULIET: Yea noise? Then Ill be brief. O happy dagger.

This is thy sheath, there rust and let me die.

(She stabs herself and falls.)

Act V, Scene III:Lord Montague vows to preserve Juliets memory:A statue of gold is planned.

Page 121Lines 298-302:MONTAGUE: But I can give thee more,

For I will raise her statue in pure gold,

That whiles Verona by that name is known,

There shall be no figure at such rate be set,

As that of true and faithful Juliet.

This resource was created by Mr. Hayne of Ostensible Industries, 2011.

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