“Alack, there lies more peril in thine eye, than twenty of their swords,” this quote by Romeo reveals that his passion for Juliet’s love is sufficient to make him invincible against any form of physical weapon or threat. The play describes the tragedy of two children of clashing families falling in love under the most depressing of circumstances in fourteenth century Verona, Italy. Shakespeare creates conflicting moods to magnify the effects of the rivalry to the romance of the young Romeo and Juliet. The playwright Romeo and Juliet demonstrates how the author uses mood to treat the contradictory terms of love and war.
Shakespeare’s diction when using symbolism to describe the interactions between Romeo and Juliet, when they declare their love for each other, presents a dreamy mood. The setting, including the privacy of the night and the symbolism behind the window caging Juliet, add to the mood because they treat their love as sense of freedom from the social expectations that have been set for them. When Romeo says, "With love's light wings did I o'erperch these walls," further shows that the lovers believe that with the force of love in their favor, nothing can separate two hearts who belong together. Although they had just recently been acquainted, the
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"I would not for the world they see thee here," spoken by Juliet emphasises the urgency and danger of their situation due to the feud among their parents that has forced two innocent children to be victims of ignorance. The structure is strange considering he decided to move the verb to the end of the sentence. This captures the attention of the reader revealing that she truly wishes their circumstances were more promising because despite all of their greatest efforts, she realizes that their love will ultimately end in
Love, what a small word for being one of the most powerful and complicated emotion someone can receive. Love grants people an experience of other emotions such as, sadness, happiness, jealousy, hatred and many more. It is because of those characteristics that love creates that make it so difficult to define the emotion in a few words. In the play, “Romeo and Juliet” by William Shakespeare, two star-crossed lovers, Romeo and Juliet, defy their parents in hopes of being able to be together and live a happy life. The characters in “Romeo and Juliet” show the characteristics of love through their words and actions throughout the play. The attributes the characters illustrate throughout the play are rage, loyalty, and sorrow.
Throughout the play Romeo and Juliet, written by William Shakespeare in the 16th century, there is consistent theme of conflict featured in terms of both mental, physical and emotional means. The way this dispute is embodied throughout the duration of the play alternates subject to subject to the character in question- but can be represented through many means.
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
“Don’t waste your love on someone who doesn’t value it.” In the play Romeo and Juliet, William Shakespeare exposes the life of two young lovers in the Renaissance period fighting for something they cannot live without; each other. Although fate takes its toll, the everlasting feud between two families, conditional love by parents, and the irresponsibility’s of father and mother like figure are the main causes in the death of Romeo and Juliet. The idea of love is something that is valued in this play from many different aspects of characters, lines, and scenes. Shakespeare leaves the minds of readers soaring over not why it happened, but who was at fault.
In Romeo and Juliet, it is clear that Shakespeare commonly embodies metaphors in his play to elaborate on Romeo’s love for Juliet. The use of metaphors invites the audience to develop a further understanding of the object comparing values of love. An example of a metaphor can be noticed in the balcony scene when Romeo claims that “Juliet is the sun”. When we analyse this quote we notice that Shakespeare is displaying the respect that Romeo offers to Juliet. The purpose of using this particular metaphor is to show that Juliet’s appearance will always be accepted in Romeo’s heart. When the sun is mentioned it is referred as Juliet being high in the sky; overlooking and invalidating all those beneath her control. This metaphor is referring to Juliet as being truly out of this world, Romeo’s world; conveying ideas of excitement and affection. When Juliet is compared to the sun, powerful messages are given off such as Juliet being forever existent, and forever the love of Romeo’s life; as the sun will never die out, meaning that Romeo will always have a desire towards the angelic figure in his life. To conclude, metaphors are one of the most common language techniques that Shakespeare incorporates into his highly successful play, Romeo and Juliet. Shakespeare models metaphors to analyse the affection so we can determine how much love is present in Romeo and Juliet’s relationship. As a result, the messages founded by metaphors helps us connect to the jubilant, however, catastrophic
In this scene, due to Romeo's love towards Juliet, he goes to her house at night and risks his life just to see her. Benvolio explains to readers how Romeo has run away that night and describes Romeo's love for Juliet. He uses a metaphor and tells us about Romeo's love by saying, "Blind is his love" (Rom.2.1.35). Comparing Romeo's love toward Juliet to the state of being blind tells us that it is causing him to not see the dangers in some things or to not see situations clearly because he is so in love. The author’s purpose of using this technique conveys to readers that Romeo and Juliet’s love for each other is causing them to make crazy decisions purely based on how it will affect their love rather than their own well being. Romeo also demonstrates the foolish actions love can cause individuals to do when he comes and visits Juliet at night after the Capulet's party. Even though Romeo should not be there because the consequences are severe, he visits Juliet anyways. In a conversation with Juliet about the risks he is taking to see her, he says “Alack there lies more peril in thine eye than twenty of their swords”
As Juliet welcomes the darkness of night, she is accepting the religious and social consequences of her actions. This is Shakespeare commenting on how the social norms imposed on the women of Verona were trivial and harmful. Truthfully, Juliet was probably never informed about what a healthy relationship was because love and sex were not something to be talked of, and that lead to her untimely death. Many of these restrictions remain today, despite women being allowed to vote, work, and hold positions of political power. Sex is not something girls are frequently informed of by their parents, only in health class. The media defines love as sacrificing one’s self, even one’s life, for the well being of someone else. In reality, no true love will ask one to sacrifice part of one’s self, only to care unconditionally.
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
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 ...
One of the main catalysts in Shakespeare's 'Romeo and Juliet' is powerful, uncontrollable emotions; love, hate, wrath, infatuation, and outrage are all apparent in the play and have a direct impact on the tragic events that unfold. In act one, scene two, the strongest emotions conveyed are those of despair, love and sincerity. Shakespeare uses imagery, figurative language and powerful vocabulary to convey these emotions to the audience.
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.
In the tremendous play of ‘Romeo & Juliet’, Shakespeare’s ways engages the audience straight away. The astounding methods he uses hooks the audience into the play and allows them to read on, wondering what will happen. The tragic love story of Romeo & Juliet, as mentioned in the prologue, sets a variety of themes throughout Act 1 Scene 5. Many of the recognisable themes are: youth and age, revenge, forbidden love, fate, action and hate. The main idea of the play is a feud that had been going on between two families, The ‘Montagues and Capulets’, the son of the Montagues and the daughter of the Capulets fall in love and the story tells us how tragic, death, happiness and revenge find them throughout the play.
Ultimately`, William Shakespeare shows in many different ways throughout the play, ‘Romeo and Juliet’, that love is the more powerful force than hate. The readers see how the characters continuously forgive one another, even when the conditions are tough. The friendships between specific characters display a loving bond that cannot be broken with hate. Shakespeare demonstrates that Romeo and Juliet’s love can overpower the hate of many events in the play. He shows that their love can even overpower the death of one of their own family members. Romeo and Juliet’s love brings friendship between their feuding families. This story is a true example of how love can conquer all.
In Act 3 of Shakespeare’s tragic drama Romeo and Juliet, the conflicts and obstacles the protagonists are aggravated. All of the events build off one another after the climax of the play, when Romeo kills Tybalt. Romeo is then banished from Verona, but spends one last night with Juliet. Capulet wishes for Juliet to marry Paris, but Juliet stands up to her father, who gets mad at her for this rebellious act. At the end of the act, Juliet has no support, even from the Nurse.
The contrast between love and violence has affected the characters deeply in that they have realised that love can lead to violence and that their violence led to the death of love, when Romeo fought, he fought out of love, not out of anger or a need for violence. Maybe what Shakespeare was trying to say is that, although love and violence are two very different things, they sometimes make nothing but trouble.