Juliet Capulet Quotes

This woman is Pocahontas. She is Athena and Hera. Lying in this messy, unmade bed, eyes closed, this is Juliet Capulet. Blanche DuBois. Scarlett O'Hara. With ministrations of lipstick and eyeliner I give birth to Ophelia. To Marie Antoinette. Over the next trip of the larger hand around the face of the bedside clock, I give form to Lucrezia Borgia. Taking shape at my fingertips, my touches of foundation and blush, here is Jocasta. Lying here, Lady Windermere. Opening her eyes, Cleopatra. Given flesh, a smile, swinging her sculpted legs off one side of the bed, this is Helen of Troy. Yawning and stretching, here is every beautiful woman across history.

By my head, here come the Capulets." Mercutio- "By my heel, I care not.

CAPULET: ...Well, we were born to die.

Don't you dare. Don't you run away from me." He holds me tight, his fingers pressing into my back. "I'm listening. You're not Ariel. Then what should I call you? I don't care. I'll love you no matter what name you want me to use.

Seated across is a silent affair looking into my eyes; blurring the loud scenery. An incapable dream, an unimagined union-I whisper. Then you close your eyes and your soul yells my name. I cradle your peace back-with a sigh and kiss your thought away. Because we are an incomplete pair of Romeo and Juliet left alive by the Montagues and the Capulets; killed by the distance of the sun and the moon.

When I was twelve, my sixth-grade English class went on a field trip to see Franco Zeffirelli’s film adaptation of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. From that moment forward I dreamed that someday I’d meet my own Juliet. I’d marry her and I would love her with the same passion and intensity as Romeo. The fact that their marriage lasted fewer than three days before they both were dead didn’t seem to affect my fantasy. Even if they had lived, I don’t think their relationship could have survived. Let’s face it, being that emotionally aflame, sexually charged, and transcendentally eloquent every single second can really start to grate on a person’s nerves. However, if I could find someone to love just a fraction of the way that Montague loved his Capulet, then marrying her would be worth it.

CAPULET: Ready to go, but never to return. O son! the night before thy wedding-day Hath Death lain with thy wife. There she lies, Flower as she was, deflowered by him. Death is my son-in-law, Death is my heir; My daughter he hath wedded: I will die, And leave him all; life, living, all is Death’s.

At this same ancient feast of Capulet's Sups the fair Rosaline whom thou so lov'st, With all the admired beauties of Verona. Go thither, and with unattainted eye, Compare her face with some that I shall show, And I will make thee think thy swan a crow.

Escalus, Prince of Verona. Paris, a young Nobleman, kinsman to the Prince. Montague,}Heads of two Houses at variance with each other. Capulet, } An Old Man, Uncle to Capulet. Romeo, Son to Montague. Mercutio, Kinsman to the Prince, and Friend to Romeo. Benvolio, Nephew to Montague, and Friend to Romeo. Tybalt, Nephew to Lady Capulet.

Evermore weeping for your cousin’s death? What, wilt thou wash him from his grave with tears? An if thou couldst, thou couldst not make him live; Therefore, have done: some grief shows much of love; But much of grief shows still some want of wit. JULIET: Yet let me weep for such a feeling loss. LADY CAPULET: So shall you feel the loss, but not the friend Which you weep for. JULIET: Feeling so the loss, Cannot choose but ever weep the friend. LADY CAPULET: Well, girl, thou weep’st not so much for his death, As that the villain lives which slaughter’d him.

So shall you feel the loss, but not the friend which you weep for

The day is hot, the Capulets abroad. And if we meet we shall not escape a brawl. For now, these hot days, is the mad blood stirring.

Ô Roméo ! Roméo ! pourquoi es-tu Roméo ? Renie ton père et abdique ton nom ; ou, si tu ne le veux pas, jure de m'aimer, et je ne serai plus une Capulet.

Capulet:What noise is this? Give me my long sword, ho!

Capulet! Montague! See what a scourge is laid upon your hate, That heaven finds means to kill your joys with love!

I like literature," I said. "We started watching the film version of Romeo and Juliet today." I didn't tell them this, but the love story fascinated me. The way the lovers fell so deeply and irrevocably in love after their first meeting sparked a burning curiosity in me about what human love might feel like. "How are you finding that?" Ivy asked. "It's very powerful, but the teacher got really mad when one of the boys said something about Lady Capulet." "What did he say?" "He called her a MILF, which must be offensive because Miss Castle called him a thug and sent him out of the room. Gabe, what is a MILF?" Ivy smothered her smile behind a napkin while Gabriel did something I'd never seen before. He blushed and shifted uncomfortably in his chair. "Some acronym for a teenage obscnity, I imagine," he mumbled. "Yes, but do you know what it means?" He paused, trying to find the right words. "It's a term used by adolescent males to describe a woman who is both attractive and a mother." He cleared his throat and got up quickly to refill the water jug. "I'm sure it must stand for something," I pressed. "It does," Gabriel said. "Ivy, can you remeber what it is?" "I believe it stands for 'mother I'd like to...befriend'," said my sister. "Is that all?" I exclaimed. "What a fuss over nothing. I really think Miss Castle needs to chill.

Do you ever think what might've happened if they weren't so damn impatient? If Romeo had stopped for a second and gotten a doctor, or waited for Juliet to wake up? Not jumped to conclusions and gone and poisoned himself thinking she was dead when she was just sleeping? I've seen that movie so many times, and every damn time, it's like screaming at the girl in the horror movie. Don't go in the basement. The killer's down there. With Romeo and Juliet, I yell, 'Don't jump to conclusions.' But do those fools ever listen to me? I always imagine what might've happened if they'd waited. Juliet would've woken up. They'd already be married. They might've moved away, far away from the Montagues and the Capulets, gotten themselves a cute castle of their own. Decorated it up nice. Maybe it would've been like The Winter's Tale. By thinking Hermione was dead, Leontes had time to stop acting like a fool and then later he was so happy to find out she was alive. Maybe the Montagues and the Capulets would find out later that their beloved kids weren't dead, and wasn't it stupid to feud, and everyone would be happy. Maybe it would've turned the whole tragedy into a comedy.

Humanist dramas unfold when people have uncomfortable desires. For example, it is extremely uncomfortable when Romeo of the house of Montague falls in love with Juliet of the house of Capulet, because the Montagues and Capulets are bitter enemies. The technological solution to such dramas is to ensure we never have uncomfortable desires. How much pain and sorrow would have been avoided if, instead of drinking poison, Romeo and Juliet could just take a pill or wear a helmet that would have redirected their star-crossed love towards other people.

ROMÉO. — Elle parle : oh, parle encore, ange brillant ! car là où tu es, au-dessus de ma tête, tu me parais aussi splendide au sein de cette nuit que l’est un messager ailé du ciel aux-regards étonnés des mortels ; lorsque rejetant leurs têtes en arrière, on ne voit plus que le blanc de leurs yeux, tant leurs prunelles sont dirigées-en haut pour le contempler, pendant qu’il chevauche sur les nuages à la marche indolente et navigue sur le sein de l’air. JULIETTE. — Ô Roméo, Roméo ! pourquoi es-tu Roméo ? Renie ton père, ou rejette ton nom ; ou si tu ne veux pas, lie-toi seulement par serment à mon amour, et je ne serai pas plus longtemps une Capulet. ROMÉO, à part. — En entendrai-je davantage, ou répondrai-je à ce qu’elle rient de dire JULIETTE. — C’est ton nom seul qui est mon ennemi. Après tout tu es toi-même, et non un Montaigu. Qu’est-ce qu’un Montaigu ? Ce n’est ni une main, ni un pied, ni un bras, ni un, visage, ni toute autre partie du corps appartenant à un homme. Oh ! porte un autre nom ! Qu’y a-t-il dans un nom ? La fleur que nous nommons la rose, sentirait tout aussi bon sous un autre nom ; ainsi Roméo, quand bien même il ne serait pas appelé Roméo, n’en garderait pas moins la précieuse perfection : qu’il possède. Renonce à ton nom Roméo, et en place de ce nom qui ne fait pas partie de toi, prends-moi toute entière. ROMÉO. — Je te prends au mot : appelle-moi seulement : ton amour, et je serai rebaptisé, et désormais je ne voudrai plus être Roméo. JULIETTE. — Qui es-tu, toi qui, protégé par la nuit, viens ainsi surprendre les secrets de mon âme ? ROMÉO. — Je ne sais de quel nom me servir pour te dire qui je suis : mon nom, chère sainte, m’est odieux à moi-même, parce qu’il t’est ennemi ; s’il était écrit, je déchirerais le mot qu’il forme. JULIETTE. — Mes oreilles n’ont pas encore bu cent paroles de cette voix, et cependant j’en reconnais le son n’es-tu pas Roméo, et un Montaigu ? ROMÉO. — Ni l’un, ni l’autre, belle vierge, si l’un ou l’autre te déplaît. JULIETTE. — Comment es-tu venu ici, dis-le-moi, et pourquoi ? Les murs du jardin sont élevés et difficiles à escalader, et considérant qui tu es, cette place est mortelle pour toi, si quelqu’un de mes parents t’y trouve. ROMÉO. — J’ai franchi ces murailles avec les ailes légères de l’amour, car des limites de pierre ne peuvent arrêter l’essor de l’amour ; et quelle chose l’amour peut-il oser qu’il ne puisse aussi exécuter ? tes parents ne me, sont donc pas un obstacle. JULIETTE. — S’ils te voient, ils t’assassineront. ROMÉO. — Hélas ! il y a plus de périls, dans tes yeux que dans vingt de leurs épées : veuille seulement abaisser un doux regard sûr moi, et je suis cuirassé contre leur inimitié. JULIETTE. — Je ne voudrais pas, pour le monde entier, qu’ils te vissent ici. ROMÉO. — J’ai le manteau de la nuit pour me dérober à leur vue et d’ailleurs, à moins que tu ne m’aimes, ils peuvent me trouver, s’ils veulent : mieux vaudrait que leur haine mît fin à ma vie, que si ma mort était retardée, sans que j’eusse ton amour ; JULIETTE. — Quel est celui qui t’a enseigné la direction de cette place ? ROMÉO. — C’est l’Amour, qui m’a excité à la découvrir ; il m’a prêté ses conseils, et je lui ai prêté mes yeux. Je ne suis pas pilote ; cependant fusses-tu aussi éloignée que le vaste rivage baigné par la plus lointaine nier, je m’aventurerais pour une marchandise telle que toi.

Let’s test the Shakespearean model in the real world. Imagine a production called Gates and Schmidt, based on Romeo and Juliet. Montague is Microsoft. Capulet is Google. Two great families, run by alpha nerds, sure to clash on account of their sameness.

We are not surprised at Romeo loving Juliet, though he is a Montague and she is a Capulet. But if we found in addition that Lady Capulet was by birth a Montague, that Lady Montague was a first cousin of old Capulet, that Mecutio was at once the nephew of a Capulet and the brother-in-law of a Montague, that count Paris was related on his father’s side to one house and on his mother’s side to the other, that Tybalt was Romeo’s uncle’s stepson and that the Friar who had married Romeo and Juliet was Juliet’s uncle and Romeo’s first cousin once removed, we would probably conclude that the feud between the two houses was being kept up for dramatic entertainment of the people of Verona.

You run through the now-open door to Capulet Castle and quickly find Juliet to deliver the good news to her. You are tired, aching, and out of breath. But on the plus side, you solved some cool puzzles and didn’t get eaten by crazed animals! Juliet is overjoyed to see you and can’t wait to hear your good news. She will marry her Romeo because of you. It is a happy ending, because as we know, nothing can go wrong when people get married!

There is a long moment. I don’t even understand why he’s standing up for me in front of his father. In another handful of months, the truth will come out. I’m not his girlfriend. I’m not someone he cares about. I am only after his money. But for a second, the lie seems real. Blake’s eyes blaze. His hand holds mine. I can actually believe that he cares about me, that he’s willing to stand up to his father for me. It’s like Romeo and Juliet. The version of Romeo and Juliet where the Montagues have nothing and the Capulets can crush them all without thinking, that is. The version where Juliet dies alone in the tomb from a drug overdose and Romeo says, “Oh, shit, I knew I was forgetting something, but I was trying to figure out how to get out of paying ordinary income tax.