This marks a separation between Juliet and her Nurse's counsel. Symbolically, in deciding that she will no longer mind her Nurse's advice, Juliet marks her departure from childhood and entrance into adulthood.
Juliet's claim here that she will kill herself foreshadows the end of the play. Since we know that the young lovers take their lives from the Prologue, we know that the Priest will either offer no remedy or his remedy will fail.
"Challenge" in this context means to demand possession of. The Nurse here argues that since Romeo is banished, he will never return for her. In this logic, she is essentially unwed because her husband is gone.
"Rate" means to scold someone. Notice that the Nurse is the only person who comes to Juliet's defense. Unlike Juliet's mother who points Capulet's wrath at her daughter, the Nurse tries to deflect Capulet's anger onto herself.
A "hurdle" was a type of sledge used to carry prisoners to their executions. Notice that Capulet's teasing metaphors have become vicious, even violent. He either refers to her as property that he can barter or sell, or as a prisoner who he can sentence and execute at will. Juliet is figured as a possession.
"Take me with you" is a phrase that means let me understand you. Capulet responds to Juliet's rejection with disbelief then indignantly lists all of the responses she should have in question form. This rhetorical strategy attempts to eliminate any reason for Juliet's rejection of the proposal.
Lady Capulet intends this statement as a an insult that points to Juliet's selfish grief. However, her statement is ironically apt: Juliet is married to Romeo, and her love for him ends up leading her to her grave. Metaphorically, Juliet is actually married to her grave.
This is a phrase that means "no thank you." Lady Capulet reduces all of Juliet's protests to a simple and disrespectful "no thank you" and demonstrates that she was not listening when Juliet was speaking earlier.
Capulet is talking about Tybalt, his brother's son. The sunset is a metaphor for death, while the rain is a symbol for the tears cried over Tybalt's death. Capulet speaks about death in playful metaphors that discredit the seriousness of Tybalt's death. These short lines paint Capulet as an uncaring man.
A "conduit" is a pipe. This is a teasing metaphor for Juliet's tears. Notice again that the Capulets do not take sorrow seriously; they continuously mock and chide Juliet for feeling her cousin's death.
Notice how Lady Capulet retells the story of Capulet's marriage arrangement. She claims that Capulet's hurriedly arranged Juliet's marriage in order to help Juliet recover from grief. Since the audience has seen the conversations between Paris and Capulet, they know that the wedding was more of a business or monetary transaction than an act of love from a careful father.
"Temper" means to mix or concoct. Again, Juliet is able to appease her mother and protect her love: if Juliet is the one to make the "poison" she can make a harmless mixture.
Because of the complicated syntax of this statement, Juliet is able to say two things at once. It can read as "till I behold him dead" meaning she will not rest until she has vengeance. However, it can also read "till I behold him, dead is my poor heart," meaning that her heart is dead over Romeo's absence and she will not rest until she can see him. In this way, Juliet is able to appease her mother and embed her true feelings in her words.
In this context, "friend" means kinsman. This line can be read in two ways. Lady Capulet could be compassionately reiterating what she said before and telling Juliet that all of her grief will not bring Tybalt back to life. Or, Lady Capulet could be telling Juliet that her grief is selfish because it loses sight of the friend, Tybalt, to focus on itself. In both readings, Lady Capulet is telling Juliet to stop mourning her cousin.
Lady Capulet once again shows that the Capulets do not take death seriously. Lady Capulet here claims that there is an appropriate amount of grief to show for death and anything beyond that demonstrates that someone is not intelligent. Since it has been less than a day, this "appropriate time" seems unreasonable.
This parting look between Romeo and Juliet foreshadows the final look they will share at the end of the play when they are in the Capulet tomb.
By this phrase Juliet means that Romeo, her life, will leave when they open the window. However, it also foreshadows the end of the play. The entrance of daylight and the separation of the lovers marks a final shift in the play: we have moved out of the world of comedy, romance, or love and are now solely in the world of tragedy.
Though Romeo is teasing her in the preceding line, Juliet takes Romeo's threat of death seriously and stops pretending it is not morning. Notice how the theme of light and dark is used to symbolize the shift in Romeo and Juliet's relationship: while the night was a safe and playful space, the day is a serious and grim place where death exists.
Cynthia is another name for Artemis the Greek god of the moon. Romeo takes up Juliet's insistence that it is night and not day by using this allusion to say that the light outside comes from the moon instead of the sun. There is a hyperbolic and playful tone to this response. Both Romeo and Juliet know that it is morning but want to prolong the night.
A nightingale is a bird that sings at night while a lark sings at dawn. Here, Juliet calls the bird outside a nightingale in order to prolong the last night she has with Romeo. The nightingale symbolizes the night time in which they can be together, the lark symbolizes the dawn in which he must escape to Mantua.