“‘Romeo is banished.’ There is no end, no limit, measure, bound, in that word's death. No words can that woe sound.”– or so Juliet grieves over Romeo’s banishment, hurt with the reality that nothing will never dull its pain (3.2, 135-137). In William Shakespeare’s tragic play Romeo and Juliet, a young, tentative girl named Juliet meets the charming Romeo who, even after knowing for just a day, causes her to disregard rationale and reason in order to pursue the new feeling of desire she had yet to experience. Her heart takes her to express her love in a soliloquy on a balcony, and to craft poetic speeches about this lover whose outward presentation later proves to be a facade masking a darker side she never knew existed. Juliet first viewed …show more content…
When reminiscing over the man who captured her heart at the masque, Juliet begins to speak of the many things about Romeo that cause her to be so committed to him. She thinks that she is alone on her balcony, but Romeo hides in the bushes below, hearing her when she says, “What’s in a name? That which we call a rose by any other word would smell as sweet. So Romeo would, were he not Romeo called, retained that dear perfection which he owes without that title. Romeo, doff thy name, and for thy name, which is no part of thee, take all myself” (2.2, 46-50). Within the passage, the reader can identify the many lines where Juliet repeats her lover’s name: “Romeo”. Because Juliet continuously calls out to Romeo, it begins to seem that his very name and essence remains on Juliet’s mind. This repetition indicates a pleading tone, nearly to the extent that she is praising him as a superior when she says “take all myself” and thus submitting herself to him. Juliet is willing to give herself away to a man whom she has not even known for more than a day, but the consuming illusion of “perfection” is so strong that it compels her to praise his name, over and over again. She even goes to the extreme to say “Deny thy father and refuse thy name, or, if thou wilt not, be but sworn my love, and I’ll no …show more content…
From these ideas, a theme emerges: When someone has committed an immoral act that disturbs the deception of quick love, a person becomes torn between their feelings and their intellect. In this case, Juliet has to choose between two different factors: her heart, meaning her feelings that fuel her initial view of Romeo; or her mind, specifically the reality of Romeo’s killing of Tybalt that creates her adjusted view of him. Often enough, people take sides not out of sensibility, but out of a overpowering desire for the other side to be true, even when facts directly contradict it. Here, while Juliet can acknowledge the facts of immorality behind the situation, her attachment to her lover proves dominant. Despite the reality presented to her, Juliet lets her heart steer her, which ultimately results in their deaths. The audience can first recognize Juliet’s understanding of the severity of the situation, especially when she opens on the speech filled to the brim with oxymorons. She is able to pick out adjectives to describe Romeo’s initial character (such as “beautiful”, “angelic”, or “honorable”). However, she demonstrates her intellectual understanding of the extremity behind Romeo’s actions by adding nouns to describe Romeo’s flawed character (such as “tyrant”, “fiend”, or “villain”). While
... off.”(“Love’s Bond”, Robert Nozick) If that is true when loving someone, Romeo evidently made the wrong decision to kill Tybalt. By fulfilling this revenge, Romeo not only caused Juliet to be upset, but he also placed a burden on himself: an imprudent decision. After analyzing Romeo’s careless approach to risking to lose Juliet’s love, it becomes clear that Romeo’s love for Juliet is not a real romantic love, but it is a hormone-driven, passionate, hasty love that is portrayed as ruinous and preposterous by Shakespeare through Romeo’s actions.
William Shakespeare is amazing at using extended metaphor in Romeo and Juliet to show love between the characters, the word choice that Shakespeare uses to write extended metaphor is very detailed. During the balcony scene, Romeo says something towards Juliet which is an extended metaphor which shows love Romeo said, “Juliet is the sun. Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon, who is already sick and pale with grief that thou her maid art far more fair than she” (Shakespeare 2.2.3-5). What this means is that Juliet is being compared to the sun and Romeo is telling Juliet to arise beautiful woman and kill the envious moon so Juliet is a fair sun which has to destroy the darkness which is the moon. Romeo is saying that Juliet is as beautiful as the sun which shines over the world they live in. A little later during the balcony scene, Romeo uses extended metaphor again to compare Juliet to something good. Romeo is in love with Juliet and her beauty because Romeo always complements Juliet with something lovely and he speaks of Juliet in a nice way. For example, Romeo says “O, speak again, bright angel, for thou art as glorious to this night, being o’er my head as is a winged messenger of heaven unto the white-upturned wondering eyes” (Shakespeare 2.2.29-32). This really shows the love that Romeo has for Juliet because he compares her to a bright angel and being compared to an angel shows that she’s very glorious and mighty with beautiful features. Also, Romeo complements Juliet’s eyes again saying that her eyes are awestruck and so pretty that all mortals fall back to gaze this shows that Romeo is in love with all of her beauties and all the other people are too. Romeo says a lot of extended metaphor during the play to compare Juliet to things that are of beauty and not something that is horrible thus extended metaphor is used to show the love between
William Shakespeare’s diverse use of rhetorical and figurative language enhances and develops the moods he conveys, thus creating vast and various atmospheres throughout his works. An example of one his works that uses many of these devices is Shakespeare’s renowned Romeo and Juliet. In the famous play, the two lovebirds (Romeo and Juliet), fall in a forbidden love as the long-lasting rivalry between their two families continues its onslaught. The couple later on tragically commit suicide, which ultimately ends the feud. During the journey of the two lovers, Shakespeare expresses clearly the mood of each scene using figurative language.
When Romeo and Juliet first meet, they immediately fall in love. They cannot stand to be away from each other, and the desperation and obsession is fused in as well. When Romeo is banished, he'd rather die than be without Juliet. ”Ha, banishment! Be merciful and say ‘death,’/For exile hath more terror in his look/ Much more than death. Do not say banishment” (III iii 12-14). Juliet reacts in a similar way, too.
Juliet is very pragmatic; rather than swooning over Romeo when he intrudes on her property, Juliet is appalled considering “The orchard walls are high and hard to climb” (II, ii, 63). Juliet is not a blind fool; she is conscientious of the dangers that accompany falling for her family’s mortal enemy.
Although Act 1, Scene 4 may not appear to be very significant in the development of the story line, it serves very well in giving the foreshadowing of Romeo’s fate. It also exhibits to audience the disparity between what the characters are physically saying compared to what they are figuratively trying to portray.
What is the difference between saying “yes” or “yeah”? How do these replies, though they have the same meaning, alter one’s perception of the speaker’s level of education, sophistication and personality? William Shakespeare successfully explores the effect of speaking mannerism on perception in his tragedy Romeo and Juliet as characters use differing meters, length of sentences, diction and figurative language in order to enhance characterization. Thus, it is undeniable that Shakespeare masterfully manipulates language in Romeo and Juliet in order to reveal social class and develop character. This will become indisputable through a detailed exploration of the use of language in different social classes and the effect of language on character development.
Shakespeare uses language to demonstrate Romeo's feelings towards Rosaline, using oxymorons. He presents Romeo's feelings of conflict, and befuddlement, by the quote: "serious vanity". In this sense, the word "vanity" means foolishness, which is the opposite of being serious. He's fallen profoundly in love, and even though he knows that such passion is ludicrous, for it takes such control over his emotions, he continues pining after her. He spews out a bunch of oxymoron's, to show his inner turmoil, with his affections, to the one he could never have. This can also mean that he's trying to stop loving her, because he knows that she doesn't even acknowledge his presence. His pride is hurt, by that fact, because love is surely supposed to be requited, right? But, the thing
When asking someone how much they value friendship and what friendship means to them, you may find that nobody will give you the same answer. Some may say that friendship is one of the most valuable relationships in life and that this should mean life or death. Other may think that simple arguments are worth losing long term relationships and friendship is something to be taken lightly. Shakespeare tackles the theme of friendship in A Midsummer Night's Dream and Romeo and Juliet by using figurative language, diction, and characterization.
Romeo and Juliet is a well-known tragedy and play written by William Shakespeare. Romeo Montague and Juliet Capulet are two adolescent lovers separated by the feud between their families. Even after marrying each other, sneaking around and faking dead, Romeo and Juliet’s love for each other ends up resulting in them taking their own lives. Shakespeare uses imagery, hyperboles and sonnets to emphasize the relationship between Romeo and Juliet.
This teaches the audience that in a good relationship, both people know the other fully, and their love shouldn’t solely base itself upon passion. Throughout the play, Romeo speaks additional religious comparisons to Juliet.During their balcony scene, Romeo eavesdrops on Juliet. Upon hearing her, he says, “O, speak again, bright angel…” (II, ii, 29). Romeo calls Juliet an angel, thereby ignoring her flaws, even though only knowing her for a day. Likewise to Romeo’s past metaphors, his religious comparison demonstrates how little they know about each other, and how much they rush into their relationship. The audience learns that they should not follow the example of the lovers. The valuable lesson Shakespeare teaches enriches his audience’s viewing experience, as they learn to treat a person with respect, but they don't need to worship them blindly. Finally, Shakespeare’s metaphors reveal how possessive the protagonist’s relationship is. Juliet says, “Yet no further than a wanton’s bird… a silken thread plucks it back again,” to which Romeo responds, “I would I were thy bird” (II, ii, 190-196). Romeo wants to constantly live in proximity
First, Romeo uses a series of metaphors and figurative language to describe Juliet’s beauty. For example, he said “Juliet is the sun! Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon, who is already sick and pale with grief that thou her maid art far more fair than she” (2.2.ll.3-6). Romeo describes Juliet as unworldly, and that her beauty will outshine even the darkest moments. This reveals his love for her, as well as how naive and optimistic Romeo was when he first met Juliet. In addition to this imagery, the audience sees Romeo and Juliet develop as character. For instance, during the balcony scene, Juliet was rational and realistic when she talked to Romeo. She stated, “[their relationship] is too rash, too unadvised, too sudden”(2.2.ll.118) and “This bud of love, by summer’s ripening breath, may prove a beauteous flow’r when next we meet” (2.2.ll.121-122). These statements demonstrate her rationalized thinking. She believed that their relationship was moving too fast and that she wanted their relationship to be long and prosperous.Through the images of Juliet’s supernatural beauty, Shakespeare emphasizes that by Romeo idealizing Juliet’s beauty, it causes this forceful love between Romeo and Juliet. But this love eventually causes them to change and instead of being able to act rationally, they begin to react
She is stating that Romeo is not associated with the callous standards of the Montague name because you could call him something else and he would not change. Once again, this further explained her idea that Montague is just a name. In her next statement, Juliet expressed, “So Romeo would, were he not Romeo call’d, retain that dear perfection which he owes without that title” (Shakespeare 73). Following her previous explanation, Juliet said that Romeo would still be the love of her life and he would still be perfect to her no matter what his name was. In Juliet’s concluding line, she said, “Romeo, doff thy name, and for thy name, which is no part of thee, take all myself” (Shakespeare 73). Juliet expressed that she does not want Romeo to have the predictable Montague personality. If he committed to not possessing that, (which Juliet already knew he would anyway) in return, she would allow him to become his love. Also in the balcony scene, Shakespeare included poetic devices in Juliet’s specific passage to more effectively carry out her message of a Montague being nothing but a name. Shakespeare’s first method of amplifying his writing was by intensifying the mood of Juliet’s
Reckless actions lead to untimely deaths. In Shakespeare’s tragedy “Romeo and Juliet”, both protagonists fight for their hopeless love. Bloodshed and chaos appear inevitable in fair Verona; Romeo and Juliet come from enemy households, the Montegues and the Capulets, who have sworn to defeat one another. The young and handsome Romeo weeps over his unrequited love for Rosaline, until he lays his eyes on Juliet. Strong and independent, Juliet seeks to escape her family’s will to marry her off to Paris, a kinsman of the Prince. Fate ties these adolescents’ lives together binding them to witness the ill-fortunes of Romeo and Juliet’s love. Romeo and Juliet prove themselves woefully impulsive through their words and actions, which ultimately lead them along a series of unfortunate mishaps.
Juliet urges Romeo to go against his family. But if he will not, just swear to be her love, then she will abandon her name and her family. Realistically, they would not abandon their families, which is all they have, but instead “refuse [their] name.” By doing so, they “deny” the grip the feud had on their decisions and ultimately their lives. However, their labels are only one of many obstacles that they must confront. When Romeo reveals himself he utters, “My name, dear saint, is hateful to myself/Because it is an enemy to thee/Had I written, I would tear the word” (II.ii.59-61). Romeo is disgusted by his own name because it is an “enemy” to Juliet. His melodramatic willingness to abandon his name and “tear the word” confirms his commitment to their emerging romance. As