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Examples Of Figurative Language In Romeo And Juliet

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Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare is a tale about two feuding families in Verona, Italy. The forbidden love between Romeo and Juliet has tragic results to maintain their relationship. Their journey took no more than four days. By the span of their story, one can assume that it was love at first sight. Shakespeare’s ideas on romantical love are that love, at first sight, is not real which is demonstrated through his use of figurative language.
Shakespeare uses his book to demonstrate his evidence. In Act 2 Scene 3, Shakespeare uses Friar Lawrence’s character to demonstrate his preference for taking it slow by using figurative language. When Romeo comes back from his pleasurable night with Juliet, he explains why is so twitterpated. Friar Lawrence is rather sour about his So soon forsaken? Young men’s love then lies/Not truly in their hearts, but in their hearts. (II, iii, 67-68). This quote exemplifies the importance of Shakespeare's predilection of “taking it slow” The Friar is scolding Romeo for moving on so quickly. As to make a claim that Romeo’s “love” is just lust. The phrase “ young men love with …show more content…

“These violent delights have violent ends/And in their triumph die, like fire and powder,?Which, as they kiss, consume. The sweetest honey/Is loathsome in his own deliciousness/ And in the taste confounds the appetite./ Therefore love moderately. Long love doth so./ Too swift arrives as tardy as too slow. ”(II, vi,9-12). Shakespeare uses this quote to illustrate the importance of how going too fast leads to disastrous consequences. The phrase "loathsome in his own deliciousness," connotes that too much of a good thing turns out to be bad. In this quote, they use eating too much honey make your stomach hurt. Honey may taste good, but too much will make your stomach hurt. Shakespeare also conveys that going too fast is just as bad as going too

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