Essay On Celestial Objects In Romeo And Juliet

In the Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare, there are numerous objects mentioned and or used throughout the play. Encrypted in the following dialogue are two celestial objects, the sun and the moon. Romeo, being the descriptive and intelligent individual he is, used these objects to compare to Juliet. Of whom he thought was the brightest out of all and captivated the most beauty. Even though in reality, it is evident that the sun is far brighter than any human being on Earth. However, credit can still be given to Shakespeare since during those ages, people had not the slightest idea how the universe operated. Moreover, I choose these celestial objects because I felt that they are such an importance to Romeo, humans and the universe. As we all should know, the Earth is well “rotting”, and if we don’t do anything

about it soon, humans will walk no longer. These objects are otherwise very essential to our existence. Although, personifying these objects took more than all of the creativity I posed. The idea of turning the moon or sun into a human seemed easy until I actually tried writing a dialogue about it. As they say “Some things are easier said than done.” Furthermore, this assignment has helped in learning how to incorporate literary devices systematically into my writing, and also with understanding Shakespeare’s popularity.
Without the sun or the moon, there’d be no life, there’d be no us.

I don’t think people acknowledge this as much as they should, because if humans really appreciated this world, we wouldn’t spend our days destroying it. Moreover, I chose these two objects to personify because I feel that if enough people can advocate the importance of saving the Earth, we might be able to do so. Back in the times of Shakespeare, pollution was nonexistent, the universe wasn’t at risk. Now, it is completely different, not only is the Earth sky high on pollution, but we are running out of natural resources. People need to realize, that we are in danger, and things must change. On the other hand, my reasoning behind choosing these objects also had something to do with simplicity that came along with personifying these objects. At least that’s what I thought at the time. These objects didn’t leave a wide margin for creativity, for me at least. For example, I wouldn’t have to pick between settings, because the only obvious one was space. To conclude, the choosing of these objects were a result of pure sympathy for the Earth and the decline of difficulty they

posed.
To be honest, I rewrote this dialogue about 6 times with different ideas each time. For example, the first idea I had was way of topic and singularly focused on the idea of world destruction. I paid no intention to answering exactly what the task stated. I failed to mention any of the characters in the play and how they reflected on the chosen objects. Hence, I had to delete everything I wrote. Around the third time, I followed the directions, but I was personally unpleased by how it was turning it out. My dialogue didn’t flow; the writing was choppy, and boring. I knew then, that the only way to make it better was by having fun with it. So I thought of what a brotherly human relationship would sound like and carried on from there. Lastly, I began fixing my sentence structure, grammar and vocabulary, resulting in adequate writing that pleased my fingers.