Key quotations — Romeo and Juliet — OCR GCSE English Literature J352
OCR GCSE English Literature · J352
Key quotations
Key quotations
What you need to know
The essential quotations from Romeo and Juliet, grouped by character and by theme, each with what it means and how to analyse it.
A table of 30 to 40 key quotations by character and theme, each with its speaker, place and a one-line note, for testing yourself.
Including 'Two households, both alike in dignity', 'O brawling love! O loving hate!', 'My only love sprung from my only hate!', 'wherefore art thou Romeo?', 'These violent delights have violent ends', 'A plague o' both your houses!', 'O, I am fortune's fool!', 'Hang thee, young baggage! disobedient wretch!', 'Then I defy you, stars!', 'Thus with a kiss I die' and 'For never was a story of more woe'.
OCR's question on this play is one essay, from a choice of two, for 40 marks: an extract-based question on the printed extract and the play elsewhere, or a discursive question on a view of the play, using at least two moments. Response (AO1) and language, form and structure (AO2) carry the most weight and equal weight, context (AO3) counts as the play shows it, and 4 marks are for vocabulary, sentence structures, spelling and punctuation (AO4). An extract-based answer that never leaves the extract, or a discursive answer built on one moment, cannot go above Level 3. Each worked paragraph and exam tip is labelled with the question it is for.
