Fate and foreshadowing

Quote

Character

Act/Scene

“I fear too early, for my mind misgives some consequence yet hanging in the stars shall bitterly begin his fearful date.”

Romeo

Act 1 Scene 4

“If he be married my grave is like to be my wedding bed”

Juliet

Act 1 Scene 5

“Wisely and slow. They stumble that run fast.”

Friar Lawrence

Act 2 Scene 3

“Alas, poor Romeo! He is already dead, stabbed with a white wench’s black eye, shot through the ear with a love song, the very pin of his heart cleft with the blind bow-boy’s butt shaft. And is he a man to encounter Tybalt?”

Mercutio

Act 2 Scene 4

love-devouring death do what he dare; it is enough I may but call her name.”

Romeo

Act 2 Scene 6

“This day’s black fate on more days doth depend.

This but begins the woe others must end.”

Romeo

Act 3 Scene 1

“Methinks I see thee now, thou art so low as one dead in the bottom of a tomb.”

Juliet

Act 3 Scene 5

“Come, death, and welcome. Juliet wills it so.”

Romeo

Act 3 Scene 5

“My bosom’s lord sits lightly in his throne, and all this day an unaccustomed spirit lifts me above the ground with cheerful thoughts. I dreamt my lady came and found me dead – strange dream, that gives a dead man leave to think –”

Romeo

Act 5 Scene 1

“Then I defy you, stars.” (on discovering Juliet has “died’)

Romeo

Act 5 Scene 1