Romeo and Juliet quote meanings?

Question

i need help finding meanings for these quotes on R+J can you please help me i need this info by thursday.

Quote 1

"Tis torture, and not mercy. Heaven is here

Where Juliet lives, and every cat and dog

And little mouse, every unworthy thing,

Live here in heaven and may look on her,

But Romeo may not."

Quote 2

"Then I defy you, stars!"

Quote 3

A greater power than we can contradict

Hath thwarted our intents."

Quote 5

this day's black fate on more days doth depend:

This but begins the woe others must end.

Answer 1

Quote 1

if i remember correctly this is when romeo learns he is being banished, instead of killed, for killing tybalt.

MEANING: that he would rather die than be banished, where 'every unworthy thing' can look at/be around juliet, yet he cannot. he would rather die than  to never see her again.

Quote 2

throughout the play romeo always blames fate, and thinks everything is planned out; he believes in fate and destiny. (as apposed to juliet who 'creates her own fate' and basically believes the opposite). by stars he/she means fate.

MEANING: something like them saying i'm going against fate, possibly along the lines of creating their own destiny.

Quote 3

I'm not too sure about this one really, cant say i remember it.

MEANING: something along the lines that something greater than them/something they cannot argue against has prevented them from what they planned to do, or wanted to do.

Quote 5

again on this one im not too sure, but i can guess.

MEANING: something like the terrible fate(outcome) of the day will affect other days. it has begun some misery that other people will have to end.

sorry if some of this doesnt make too much sense. hope it helped!

Answer 2

Quote 1-

Romeo was banished, and just spared from death. However, he doesn't think it's better to be spared, because then he won't see Juliet. He thinks that this must be heaven, where Juliet lives, but yet he cannot see her. It's like torture to not see the love of his life and to still live.

Quote 2-

It seems the stars have fated Juliet to die, but Romeo doesn't want it to happen- and so defies the stars.

Quote 3-

Things are out of their hands.

I'm not sure about quote 5.

Answer 3

"Tis torture, and not mercy. Heaven is here

Where Juliet lives, and every cat and dog

And little mouse, every unworthy thing,

Live here in heaven and may look on her,

But Romeo may not."

romeo is Jealous of everyone and everything that gets to be with Juliet and he cant. thats why he says Tis Toture, and not mercy.  

Answer 4

It's late and almost time for bed, otherwise I'd look up the play and find the context, which would help.  But I think these are clear enough.

1. Romeo is comparing Juliet's home to heaven, because Juliet lives there.  Every humble creature in Juliet's house may look upon her but he can't, which seems unfair to him because she means so much to him and not them.

2.  Romeo and Juliet are identified in the prologue as 'star-crossed lovers'.  Meaning that the stars are against them.  Shakespeare is using the idea of astrology here, either because people believed it in those days or at least they understood it.  The idea is that our destinies are fixed in the stars.  The stars didn't want Romeo and Juliet to get together.  Defying the stars is like defying destiny itself.  In Julius Caesar is the line 'it's not in our stars but in ourselves that we are  underlings'.

3.  Here again the stars.  R&J were just not MEANT to be together, by fate, destiny, God, the stars, whatever.  It is a power beyond that of man.  A power greater than we can contradict.

5.  This one really would need more context.  The bad thing that is happening on this terrible day hinges on other things done on other days.  But the today is only the beginning of the bad thing, the 'woe' begun today will end in later days.