Self Awareness In Romeo And Juliet

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Self-awareness or a ‘dawning moment’ is important to understand the relationship between Romeo and Juliet because the scene has the underlying notion that the relationship between them will be revealed as the night begins to fade and the light of the dawn begins to rise. If they continue their relationship at the pace that it is going, they will have the fall out and it will lead to tragic disasters for everyone in their life as the people in their life are now self-aware of the marriage between the two of them. The play The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet is written by William Shakespeare in the late 1500s. The playwright uses subtext to add a underlying factor that their relationship is waiting to be revealed. Romeo explains to Juliet, “I must be gone and live, or stay and die (Romeo and Juliet. 3. 5. 11).” Romeo tries to …show more content…

Romeo says under his breath, “More light and light; more dark and dark our woes (3. 5. 36).” Again, the couple, threatened that if the day were to come and reveal Romeo, then their woes would grow because the night has left and when the night is over the relationship between them is at a greater risk of being found out. Also, Juliet is sad to part ways with Romeo because she does not know when she will see him again. “Kiss me hard before you go/ Summertime sadness/ I just wanted you to know/ That, baby, you're the best (Doc.2).” Juliet, imagining that she is the one singing here to Romeo, when Romeo is gone she will be sad, when the day comes in the ‘summertime’ she is in despair that the one she loves is gone and away from her, not knowing if he has been killed or not. To add on, from own personal experience of someone finding out about something that I did is. The event that took place that would best apply to the thesis would be that I cheated on a test in the first grade not knowing the consequences of what that action could lead

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