Act 5 Passages
O mischief, thou art swift
To enter in the thoughts of desperate men.
Romeo:
O mischief, thou art swift
To enter in the thoughts of desperate men.
Apostrophe: addressing something
inanimate as if it could respond.
There is thy gold, worse poison to men’s souls,
Doing more in murder in this loathsome world
Than these poor compounds that thou mayst
not sell.
I sell thee poison; thou hast sold me none.
Romeo speaks to the Apothecary
There is thy gold, worse poison to men’s souls,
Doing more in murder in this loathsome world
Than these poor compounds that thou mayst
not sell.
I sell thee poison; thou hast sold me none.
Money is poison to the soul=metaphor
Poor living corse*, closed in a dead
man’s tomb!
*corpse
Friar Lawrence
Poor living corse*, closed in a dead
man’s tomb!
*corpse
Oxymoron: Juliet is a living corpse in the
Capulet tomb
Tempt not a desperate man.
Romeo warns Paris
Tempt not a desperate man.
Why not? Why is Romeo desperate?
What’s the result?
Thou detestable maw, thou womb of death,
Gorged with the dearest morsel of the earth,
Thus I enforce these rotten jaws to open,
And in despite I’ll cram thee with more food.
Romeo addresses the tomb
Thou detestable maw, thou womb of death,
Gorged with the dearest morsel of the earth,
Thus I enforce these rotten jaws to open,
And in despite I’ll cram thee with more food.
Apostrophe and Metaphor: Romeo speaks to
the tomb calling it a stomach full of death. He
will feed it more.
Eyes look your last
Arms take your last embrace. And, lips, O, you
The doors of breath, seal with a righteous kiss
A datelss bargain to engrossing death.
Romeo
Eyes look your last
Arms take your last embrace. And, lips, O, you
The doors of breath, seal with a righteous kiss
A dateless bargain to engrossing death.
Apostrophe: Romeo bids farewell to his own
life, his physical life.
Thou desperate pilot, now at once run on
The dashing rocks thy seasick weary bark*!
*vessel
Romeo
Thou desperate pilot, now at once run on
The dashing rocks thy seasick weary bark*!
*vessel
Metaphor: He compares himself to the
pilot of a failing ship. He will destroy the
ship—suicide. Notice he recalls the
metaphor he used in Act I, scene 4
Capulet, Montague,
See what a scourge is laid upon your hate,
That heaven finds means to kill your joys
with love
Act 5 Passages
O mischief, thou art swift
To enter in the thoughts of desperate men.
Romeo:
O mischief, thou art swift
To enter in the thoughts of desperate men.
Apostrophe: addressing something
inanimate as if it could respond.
There is thy gold, worse poison to men’s souls,
Doing more in murder in this loathsome world
Than these poor compounds that thou mayst
not sell.
I sell thee poison; thou hast sold me none.
Romeo speaks to the Apothecary
There is thy gold, worse poison to men’s souls,
Doing more in murder in this loathsome world
Than these poor compounds that thou mayst
not sell.
I sell thee poison; thou hast sold me none.
Money is poison to the soul=metaphor
Poor living corse*, closed in a dead
man’s tomb!
*corpse
Friar Lawrence
Poor living corse*, closed in a dead
man’s tomb!
*corpse
Oxymoron: Juliet is a living corpse in the
Capulet tomb
Tempt not a desperate man.
Romeo warns Paris
Tempt not a desperate man.
Why not? Why is Romeo desperate?
What’s the result?
Thou detestable maw, thou womb of death,
Gorged with the dearest morsel of the earth,
Thus I enforce these rotten jaws to open,
And in despite I’ll cram thee with more food.
Romeo addresses the tomb
Thou detestable maw, thou womb of death,
Gorged with the dearest morsel of the earth,
Thus I enforce these rotten jaws to open,
And in despite I’ll cram thee with more food.
Apostrophe and Metaphor: Romeo speaks to
the tomb calling it a stomach full of death. He
will feed it more.
Eyes look your last
Arms take your last embrace. And, lips, O, you
The doors of breath, seal with a righteous kiss
A datelss bargain to engrossing death.
Romeo
Eyes look your last
Arms take your last embrace. And, lips, O, you
The doors of breath, seal with a righteous kiss
A dateless bargain to engrossing death.
Apostrophe: Romeo bids farewell to his own
life, his physical life.
Thou desperate pilot, now at once run on
The dashing rocks thy seasick weary bark*!
*vessel
Romeo
Thou desperate pilot, now at once run on
The dashing rocks thy seasick weary bark*!
*vessel
Metaphor: He compares himself to the
pilot of a failing ship. He will destroy the
ship—suicide. Notice he recalls the
metaphor he used in Act I, scene 4
Capulet, Montague,
See what a scourge is laid upon your hate,
That heaven finds means to kill your joys
with love
Prince
Capulet, Montague,
See what a scourge is laid upon your hate,
That heaven finds means to kill your joys
with love
Irony: We don’t expect heaven to kill, nor
do we expect love to be a weapon.