Love can be shown in many different ways. In the classic play, Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare, the two main characters fall in love in a very unusual way. They go behind the backs of their families just to be together. One scene in which their love is truly demonstrated is the famous balcony scene. This scene is one of the romantic peaks of the play because it emphasizes how quick Romeo and Juliet have fallen in love. In it, Juliet is standing on her balcony as Romeo is gazing at her from below. The quotes in the balcony scene add to the meaning of Romeo and Juliet’s love. First, their love can be seen when Romeo compares Juliet to the sun’s light. He is standing in the orchard under Juliet’s balcony. He gazes up at her and he is blinded by her beauty. Romeo says, “But soft! What light through yonder window breaks? It is the East, and Juliet is the sun!”(Act 2.2.2-3). He thinks she is bright, radiant, and beautiful so he compares her to the sun. …show more content…
She asks why Romeo has to be from the house of her family’s enemy. Juliet, not knowing Romeo is standing under her in the orchard, says, “O Romeo, Romeo! Wherefore art thou Romeo?”(Act 2.2.33). She doesn’t actually mean “where” is Romeo she means “why” is Romeo a Montague. She is angry that out of all the people she could fall in love with, she falls in love with someone she cannot really be with. Juliet accurately points out a primary conflict in their relationship which is the fact that their families would never allow them to be together. If her family found out, she would be greatly punished. In the same quote, Juliet goes on, saying, “Deny thy father and refuse thy name!”(Act 2.2.34). Juliet is asking Romeo to deny his family for their love. If they both turn away from their family, they could have a chance at being together. Juliet is upset that Romeo is from the house of her family’s greatest
enemies - it was only when the youngest member of each family tragically died (for each other) that the feud ended. Juliet has just been betrayed by her family, after being forced into a relationship she doesn't want with Count Paris; and her nurse has advised her to go ahead and marry Paris - a marriage that Juliet's father has arranged. We know that she is willing to try anything to avoid her forthcoming wedding to the Prince, as mentioned in a previous scene: Act four, scene one. "O bid me leap rather than marry Paris, from off the battlements of any tower…" When Juliet says this, it makes the audience see that she really doesn't want to marry Paris, and is suggesting she would rather end her own life than go ahead and marry him. She continues, "… and hide me with a dead man in his shround - Things that, to hear them told, have made me tremble - And I will do them without fear or doubt.
When Romeo first see Juliet, his excitement shows through the imagery he uses to emphasise how much her beauty contrasts with the other people in the room. For example, he says ‘Oh she doth teach the torches to burn bright’. This metaphor emphasises the way in which she stands out in contrast to the rest of the guests and how brightly she seems to shine to him, with this contrast being further emphasised by the dimly lit room. ‘Burn bright’ could suggest both light and heat, as if she is the sun in the room. He also describes Juliet as ‘a snowy dove trooping with crows’.
He is talking about love but uses words that convey pain and suffering. “It is the east, and Juliet is the Sun.” in this line Romeo is talking about Juliet rising like the sun. Romeo thinks Juliet is the sun of his life that we all cannot live without. Another interpretation of this quote is that the sun is deadly and if you get too close to it you will die and in the play Romeo’s love for Juliet leads to his death.
Love in William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet "Romeo and Juliet" is a love tragedy based on different kinds of loves. Romeo and Juliet become married in a forbidden relationship over the high tension brawl between their rival families which Shakespeare clearly shows in the play. Despite the family brawls, the pair decides to let their "perfect" love defeat all. Peoples ideas have changed in the space of 400 years, for example back then some loves featured in this play would produce different reactions to the audience, than today. Shakespeare opens the play with the chorus who speaks a sonnet, where love imagery is found; "Two Star-crossed lovers" =
Juliet’s internal conflicts are evident throughout the play, especially when she says “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”. This quote comes from the very first act, right after she had met and kissed Romeo at the Capulet banquet. She had fallen in love with him, and had asked the Nurse who Romeo was. She had then explained to Juliet that he was a Montague. The first part of the quote, (My only love sprung from my only hate) means that the only person that the truly loves, Romeo, came from the only person she has been raised by her family to hate, Montague, meaning that Romeo is Montague’s son. When she says “Too early seen unknown...
It is the east, and Juliet is the sun. Arise fair sun, and kill the envious moon'. This demonstrates Romeo's true affection and physical attraction to Juliet. Even to a non-romantic at heart, the following lines are simply magical. 'Two of the fairest stars in all the heaven, having some business, do entreat her eyes to twinkle in their spheres till they return'.
Playwright, William Shakespeare, conveys the different forms of love between the characters in his drama, Romeo and Juliet. In the small town of Verona, the different types of love are highlighted, through character actions and speech. Unrequited love is seen in Romeo and Juliet through Romeo's 'love'for Rosaline in Act one, while the forbidden love at first sight, also known as romantic love is seen between Romeo and Juliet. Furthermore, the motherly love/ familial love, Juliet and the Nurse share is also explored. William Shakespeare shows the forbidden love at first sight between two characters, Romeo and Juliet.
Instead, her parents would decide for her even if she did not like the man. I am a In Act 3 Scene 2 Juliet is waiting for Romeo to arrive so they can consummate the marriage to make it legal, she is getting very impatient and she is also very anxious :-"Gallop apace you fiery footed stead" and also she says "Come, civil knight" but there is a case of. Dramatic irony because the audience knows that Romeo killed Tybalt but Juliet does not yet possess this piece of information, and she also. does not realise that Romeo has been banished for this crime. In line 43.
Romeo and Juliet are not supposed to be together. Upon seeing Romeo, Juliet sends The Nurse to find out who he is. Nurse returns saying, “His name is Romeo, and a Montague, / The only son of your great enemy” (I v 36-37). They instantly become desperate to see each other all the time, ignoring the fact that their families are feuding. Juliet likes the proverbial forbidden fruit, saying, “What’s in a name? That which we call a rose / By any other name would smell as sweet; So Romeo would, were he not Romeo called / Retain that dear perfection which he owes / Without that...
1. a) Romeo compares Juliet to the sun because she the best thing that has ever happened to his life and she lights up his world.
Romeo Montague and Juliet Capulet’s love for each other causes them to sacrifice their family, although their families have always had great gravity over the lovers. After the party where the lovers first meet, Juliet stands on her balcony and promises herself to Romeo: “be but sworn my love, and I’ll no longer be a Capulet” [2.2.37-39]. In this case, “sworn my love” can be rearranged to mean “my sworn love,” which refers to Romeo as the one that she will always love. For Juliet to become a Montague-- her family’s rivals-- would mean that she would give up many things she and her family value. In their fight over her refusal to marry Paris, Juliet’s parents threaten to not “acknowledge [her]” as their daughter, even if “[she]...hang, beg, starve, die in the streets” [4.1.192-193]. “Hanging,” “begging,” “starving,” “dying” are all very extreme ramifications that Juliet’s parents will give to her if she does not
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 know the risks of being together and how it could affect their lives, 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 believe these feelings transferred to the two families’ offspring, causing them to be born with a hatred for the opposing family. Due to this constant war between the families, Romeo and Juliet seem to have been trying to go against their respective parents, and be together, in what I believe, was an act of rebellion, something which is very common and occurs a lot still now. “Adolescent rebellion begins as a result of the desire for independence. It is a developmental norm. In fact, if you have the sneaking suspicion that teenage rebellion may be inevitable, you’re right! Pretty much every teenager will test the limits – and even cross the line – at one time or another.”
This excerpt affects Juliet because she is finally admitting that her parents are not always right, mostly about the feuding, but also about selecting her a husband. She is showing an indication of rebellion in the line “Deny thy father and refuse thy name'; by saying “deny thy father';.
It’s obvious: Romeo and Juliet come from vastly different families with a strong distaste for each other, often fighting and speaking poorly about the other. However, this does not prevent Romeo and Juliet from falling in love: if anything, it makes their relationship more intense as they sneak behind their families’ backs to be together, which is shown in many ways, with the most well known being the balcony scene in Act II, in which Romeo replies “..Neither, fair saint, if either thee dislike.” (II.2.73) after Juliet asks if he is a Montague. He is willing to do anything for the girl he just met (again, touching on the theme of infatuation), and the fact that their two families don’t get along only makes the stakes higher for Romeo. He wants to please Juliet, and their families’ intense rivalry plays a part in their relationship as