Saturday 16 January 2010

Are there any good quotes from Romeo and Juliet that speak about the pair not wanting to live without the other?

The two fall absolutely head-over-heels in love, and they hardly talk about anything
else. They are consumed with being together eternally, and their lines begin to reflect this
quickly.

In act 2, scene 2,declares:


Call me but love, and I'll be new baptized.
Henceforth I never will be
Romeo.

asks Romeo to give up his last name, as that is
all that stands between themyet it's a significant barrier to cross. In these lines, he says
that he's willing to even relinquish his identity if he can be "baptized" anew as
Juliet's lover because he can't live without her.

Just a few lines later,
after Juliet asks him how in the world he managed to get into her family's property, Romeo tells
her:

With love's light wings did I o'erperch 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.


He tells her that he cannot be stopped by her relatives and that his love causes him
to be daring because he is so drawn to...












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