Contrast Between Language of Love in the Balcony Scene and the Language of Death in the Final Scene of Romeo and JulietIn William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare introduces many themes that he continues throughout all of his tragedies, including the language of love vs. the language of death. The balcony scene is the most valuable scene illustrating the language of love, whereas in the final scene of the play the language of death is used to set the stage for their suicides, pulling together the tragic ending of the play.Throughout the second scene of Act II, Romeo uses beautiful metaphors and similes to express his affection for Juliet:O, speak again bright angel, for thou artAs glorious to this night, being o'er my headAs is a winged messenger of heaven.(Rom. II. II, 28-30.)This passage is used to compare Juliet to an angel, somethign that is universally held as sacred and lovely. Elsewhere in the scene there are lines that describe their love for one another, and add to the romantic theme of the scene:And but thou love me, let them find me here.My life better ended by their hateThe death prorogued, wantingof thy love.(Rom. II. II, 76-78.)In the final scene of the play, there is much talk of death by Romeo, Friar Laurence, and Juliet. Romeo announces his own demise in his soliloquy:Depart again. Here, here I will remainWith worms and chambermaids. O, hereWill I set my everlasting restAnd shake the yoke of inauspicious starsFrom this world-weariedflesh. Eyes, look your last!Arms, take your last embrace! And, lips,O youThe doors of breath to engrossing death!(Rom. V. III, 108-114.)The Friar's Frantic wrods and actions in conflict to his previous calm stature illustrate the grim mood of the scene: Stay not to question, for the watch is coming.Come, go good Juliet.
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The reader realizes this when the prologue states, “Two households, both alike in dignity/ In fair Verona, where we lay our scene, / From ancient grudge break to new mutiny,/ Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean./ From forth the fatal loins of these two foes/ A pair of star-cross'd lovers take their life” (I 1-6). This translates to say two families have been rivals for many years. Romeo and Juliet are two from separate rivaling families that fall in love. The reader can acknowledge that these two individuals meet one another due to fate. However, they know that because of their parents’ hatred of each other, they can never be together. “My only love sprung from my only hate!/ Too early seen unknown, and known too late!/ Prodigious birth of love it is to me,/ That I must love a loathed enemy” (I v138-140). A decision is made that the only way to be happy is to take their lives. As soon as the play begins, the audience can foresee a tragic ending because of the language used.
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My life were better ended by their hate, than death proroguèd, wanting of thy love,”(2.2.76-78). By using complex syntax and diction Shakespeare creates a sense of sincerity and genuity from Romeo as he explains to Juliet how he’d rather die should she not love him, than live without her love using intricate diction such as ‘proroguèd’. Another strong example of how Shakespeare’s unique use of diction and syntax greatly influences the mood of the scene would be when Romeo confesses to Juliet that, to him, he’d rather face 20 of her relatives than be given an angry look by her, saying that, “Alack, there lies more peril in thine eye than twenty of their swords,”(2.2.71-72). It gives a sense of almost sickening romanticism, especially from Romeo, and intensifies the obvious ‘love in the air’ between the two in the
Her words foreshadow her death at the end of the play. “Go ask his name: if he be married./My grave is like to be my wedding bed” In the prologue, Shakespeare uses phrases such as “death-marked love” and “star-cross’d lovers” to show that fortune and fate are responsible for the tragedy. Shakespeare also describes Romeo and Juliet’s defiance of their parents as “misadventured piteous overthrows.” This description suggests that the lovers’ efforts to be together will be hopeless against what fate has in store for
The continuous contrast between love and death is greatly expressed through the use of iambic pentameter in the passage’s structure. The unstressed, stressed, beats of the passage is used as a reinforcement of death versus love. On the other hand, the rhyming couplets, create a connection between love and death in this dramatic monologue, conveying that Juliet is divine or godly. Shakespeare also hints that after death one can also love “like a rich jewel in an Ethiope’s ear” (3). In heaven everybody loves each other and is equal, unlike in the 1600s when black and white people were treated differently. However, Romeo is conveying that love is rare, as a “jewel in an Ethiope's ear” (3), as when Africans were forced into slavery, one in England rarely saw a jewel on a black slave. The constant use of visual imagery hints that Romeo, when looking for love, first looks at beauty, then the personality. He states that “[b]eauty [is] too rich for use” (4), suggesting that the girl he fancies is too pretty to die, which also foreshadows an upcoming death. Additionally, the repetition of the
The culmination of all of this comes during Romeo’s monologue right next to his beloved unconscious Juliet which at the time he thinks she is dead. In his sorrows, all he talks about is his misfortunes and sacrifices and his fate not bothering to think about anyone else’s. This is glaringly apparent when Romeo proceeds to use the letter “I” instead of we and says things such as “For fear of that, I still will stay with thee,” Instead of saying “We will stay with each other,” (RM). Not only does say that a few time he proceeds to use “I” instead of “we” four more times. This can be interpreted as the idea that it’s Romeo fault for the death of Juliet because of brash overconfidence, dramaticism, and most all his exuberantly obvious complete and other lack to take into the emotions of the others around and be absolutely
Juliet’s weakness to be controlled by love leads her to make unadvised and irresponsible decisions that contribute to her choice of ending her life. Characterized as a young and rash teenager, with no interest in love and marriage at first, Juliet wants to be independent. However, after she first lays eyes on Romeo, Juliet’s perception of love is quick to change. Their strong love easily manipulates and clouds her judgment. Even if she is cautious and realizes their love is too fast, the rush of feelings from having a first love overcomes her. Her soft-spoken words symbolically foreshadow the journey of Romeo and Juliet’s love. “Well, do not swear. Although I joy in thee, / I have no joy of this contract tonight. / It is too rash, too unadvised, too sudden;…/ This bud of love, by summer’s ripening breath, / May prove to be a beauteous flower when next we meet” (2.2. 117-123). The blooming flower is indicative of their growing love, especially Juliet. Being her first experience of true love, her actions become more rash the deeper she falls in, even ...
Romeo’s language in Act V scene III is one of the main factors as to why we feel so much sympathy for the two lovers: “Do not interrupt me in my course”, from Romeo’s emotive language we feel sorry for him as we are made aware of his determination to resign to fate and end his own life. “Why I descend into this bed of death...
Love, Sex, and Death play a major role in William Shakespeare’s “Romeo and Juliet” that is what makes this play so extraordinary for its unique qualities.3. Clayton G. MacKenzie states in her article “Love, Sex and Death in Romeo and Juliet,” “Shakespeare’s play, though, does not attempt to present a simple image of callow romance and sexuality cut down in full bloom by Death’s grim scythe. Its journey is more complex and, perhaps, more perplexing than that. The play’s thesis may begin with a conspiracy between sex and death, encapsulated in Rosaline’s unwillingness to participate in the death-dealing games of sexual love, but it goes on to speculate about the possibilities of sex through death, and evolves even into a discourse on sex as death.” (23). 4.This statement to me means that Romeo tried the same game on Rosaline and Juliet.5. His first attempt failed, but the love he had with Juliet was the perfect ending to his story.6. Clayton G. MacKenzie also states “These shifts occur initially because of Friar Lawrence’s plan to supply Juliet with a drug that will give her the temporary appearance of absolute death, allowing her then to revive and escape with Romeo. By assuming the guise of death, Juliet expects to achieve the fruits of romantic life. Death is to transport the lovers into a secure realm of marital bliss. The plan fails because the
He has fully given his every minute and dedication to Juliet. He wants to be with her every second of every long lasting day, even when life is at stake. Juliet is more keen to knowing the risks of being together and how it could affect their life, but Romeo still fails to see how it can endanger several people not just himself. At one point Juliet tries to get him to go to Mantua where he can be safe and no one can get hurt. “”Yond light is not daylight; I know it I. It is some meteor that the sun exhales To be to thee this night a torchbearer And light thee on thy way to Mantua. Therefore stay yet; thou needst not to be gone.” (Shakespeare Act 3, Scene 5). If Romeo would have listened he could have been had the chance to be saved from death, but he fails to leave her and instead he argued, ““Let me be ta’en, let them put me to death. I am content, so thou wilt have it so … I have more care to stay than will to go. Come, death, and welcome! Juliet wills it so. How is’t, my soul? Let’s talk; it is not day. ( Shakespeare Act 3, Scene 5). Romeo saying this even frightens Juliet for he is shouting to the world that Juliet wants death, not realizing that she wishes not want to perish. He is oblivious to the fact that what he has been doing, is hurting Juliet and her will to live. He is constant with wanting to be loved and for him, that is something that cost him his life.
Just as the Friar says in the beginning of the Shakespeare play, Romeo and Juliet, “Wisely and slowly, they stumble that run fast.” (II.iii.94). this was a sign of foreshadowing for for the death of the lovers, Romeo and Juliet. Even though fate was a factor that had contributed to a tragic end, there was also personal choice involved, and ultimately, the story may have had a different ending if it weren’t for the flaws of the lovers and their inability to have a grip on reality in dire circumstances. Over the course of the play, the lovers from the conflicting households have not matured and remain rather static in development. Furthermore, in this tragedy, the only son of the montages remains rather childlike, Juliet still seems immature and their relationship over all seems more like a play act on lover rather then something mature and sustainable. Overall, from start to finish, Romeo and Juliet were living in the moment, being absurd and silly rather then focusing on the future and trying to work problems out effectively.
Although true love is a dominant theme in both plays Romeo and Juliet and Much Ado About Nothing, there are differences in the way that true love is developed in both of them and the changes it makes in the personality of the lovers. In Romeo and Juliet love between the two lovers, Romeo and Juliet, is more passionate and romantic, springing up at first sight between them. Love controls and changes both of them completely, turning them to more simple and pure; it affects their language that turns to be really the language of their heart. Romeo becomes a lover poet, expressing his love to Juliet by comparing her to the sun, "Juliet is the sun" (2.2.3) and to stars, describing here as an angel and a messenger of heaven, "o, speak again, bright angel, for though art/ As is winged messenger of heaven" (2.2.26-28). The language that the both lovers use is an important instrument to show and to express their love. The change in Juliet's behavior is noticeable. Whereas she used to obey the authority of her nurse, she now defies authority. This is a sure sign of her emerging independence, and is a crucial factor in understanding her decision to marry Romeo and defy her parents.
“O Romeo, O Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo?” (II.ii.33) In Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, it would make sense that love has a positive appearance in the play. However, in Romeo and Juliet, love has a negative connotation. It is implied that love is depressing, death-filled, and the play also has numerous negative metaphors about love.
Romeo says, “Then love-devouring death do what he dare” (2.6.7). Romeo and Juliet make the decision to risk everything, however Shakespeare makes it evident that these decisions are influenced by fate. This is also revealed through Friar Lawrence as he says, “These violent delights have violent ends” (2.6.9). By foreshadowing further, Shakespeare reveals that a grim fate shall befall Romeo and Juliet. Although their love seems perfect, they know the trouble that it will cause their families, making it violent to everyone that is involved. He also reveals his stance through simile, “And in their triumph die like fire and powder” (2.6.10). By comparing their forbidden love to fire and gun powder, Shakespeare reveals that their acts will have consequences. Their love may be powerful, but it may just as well go up in flames for they are fated to die. Although Romeo seems to understand what is fated, he says “It is enough I may but call her mine”, revealing that he is blind to fate in that his only goal is to be with Juliet, no matter the grim cost (2.6.8). Through his use of foreshadowing and simile, Shakespeare reveals that our choices have consequences, but in the end our fate will be our