Act 2 Quote Analysis
Act 2 Scene 1 “If love be blind, love cannot hit the mark”
Who says this? What is significant about this quote? Mercutio is being lewd. A "mark" was considered a woman who might provide sexual gratification. He suggests that if one is blinded by higher notions of "love", he might miss a chance for sex.
Act 2 Scene 2 “O swear not by the moon, the inconstant moon, that monthly changes in her circled orb, lest that thy love prave likewise variable”
Who says this? What is significant about this quote? Romeo is swearing his to her by the moon, but she says not to because the moon changes and never stays the same for long, that it is inconstant”
Act 2 Scene 2 “O blessed, blessed night! I am feared, Being in night, all this is but a dream, too flattering-sweet to be substantial”
Who says this? What is significant about this quote? Romeo can’t believe how perfect this is and that it is all a dream to him, and he is a dreamer and he doesn’t think rationally, and when things really happen he can’t believe it
Act 2 Scene 3 “With Rosaline! My ghostly father no. I have forgot that name, and that’s names”
Who says this? What is significant about this quote? He has moved on from Rosaline
Act 2 Scene 3 “I pray the chide me not. Her I love now doth grace for grace and love for love allow. The other did not so”
Who says this? What is significant about this quote? He doesn’t want to be scorned, he is telling Friar he loves Juliet more than Rosaline
Act 2 Scene 4 “if ye should lead her into a fool’s paradise, as they say, it were a very gross kind of behavior”
Who says this? What is significant about this quote? This quote is said by Nurse on page 57 line 154. Nurse is saying that, if Romeo’s affection for Juliet is nothing other than a sham. He should not lead her on, for that is a truly disrespectful act.
Act 2 Scene 4 “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 clef with the blind bow-boys’s butt shaft. And he is a man to encounter Tybalt?”
Who says this? What is significant about this quote? This is said by Mercutio-line 13-17. Mercutio is saying that Romeo is so love struck he is unable to fight. Even if he fought Tybalt does that make him a man?
Act 2 Scene 5 “Your love says, like an honest gentleman, and a courteous, and a kind, and a handsome, and, I warrant, a virtuous”
Who says this? What is significant about this quote? Nurse to Romeo This means that he’s a good person who’s kind and pure
Act 2 Scene 5 “How art thou out of breath when thou hast breath”
Who says this? What is significant about this quote? This means how can you be out of breath when you are breathing
Act 2 Scene 6 “Therefore love moderately. Long love doth so. Too swift arrives as tardy as too slow” (62)
Who says this? What is significant about this quote? Friar Laurence is speaking to Romeo and Juliet and warning them that falling in love too quickly and with too much lust could be dangerous
Act 2 Scene 6 “So smile the heavens upon this holy act/That after-hours with sorrow chide us not”
Who says this? What is significant about this quote? Friar Laurence starts the scene off by referencing the joining of Romeo and Juliet in marriage. His comments are ironic because we know that sorrow will quickly come as a result of the marriage.