The Power and Beauty of the Love Between Romeo and Juliet

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Techniques and Devices Shakespeare Uses to Show the Power and Beauty of the Love Between Romeo and Juliet

In this essay I will be exploring the different language devises that

Shakespeare uses to show the powerful bond between Romeo and Juliet.

The actual play is about two teenage people that fall in love at first

sight, but their families have an "ancient grudge" which will doom the

love and relationship between Romeo and Juliet.

One of the techniques that Shakespeare uses to express the real love

Romeo has for Juliet but with him also imagining he is in love with

Rosaline, he uses good exaggerated language.

The play begins with an opening with Romeo brooding as he is in love

with a girl called Rosaline. On lines 162 - 172 he uses opposites "…O

heavy lightness", this is a figure of speech known as oxymoron.

Romeo is feeling very miserable because he is in love with Rosaline,

always thinking about her, "From love's weak childish blow she lives

uncharmed." But this love is unrequited, Romeos best friends thinks

the cure is too forget her but Romeo thinks it would be better and

easier to forget to think, "O teach me how I should forget to think",

we think that Romeo is in love with being in love. Benvolio tells

Romeo that when he takes him to the party, Rosaline will appear like a

crow but Romeo says that's not possible "…the all seeing sun never saw

the match since time begun", the way that Romeo is saying this, it

might mean that the feelings are not coming from the heart but he is

just in love with being in love.

Then we look at the effectiveness of that language that Shakespeare

uses to show Juliet before she meets Romeo.

Juliet is the daughter of Lord Capulet, at the age of 14, Juliet is

considered too young to marry when she is asked by Paris, a suitor. At

the time marriage wasn't really about love it was more about making a

powerful marriage. Once Juliet finds out that she is being considered

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