Light In Romeo And Juliet

The increasing light represents the obstacles and conflicts they face, while the darkness represents the secrecy and forbidden nature of their love. In Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare flexes his diction skills to highlight the theme of love. Romeo and Juliet shape the play by expressing their emotions, thoughts, and conflicts between Romeo and Juliet. When Romeo first lays eyes on Juliet, he drops some poetic lines. In the novel Romeo and Juliet it says “O, she doth teach the torches to burn bright!”

Romeo and Juliet's love is a mix between passionate, obsessive and romantic love. “But soft, what light through yonder window breaks?It is the east, and Juliet is the sun. Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon, Who is already sick and pale with grief, That thou her maid art far more fair than she. Be not her maid, since she is envious. Her vestal livery is but sick and green

Romeo’s soliloquy about Juliet says, “Juliet is the sun. Arise fair sun and kill the envious moon”(2.2.4). This metaphor exemplifies the beauty that Romeo sees in Juliet. By saying that she is the “sun” he shows how much she stands out to him; shining brighter and higher than all others. This demonstrates Romeo’s deep connection to Juliet and no one else. At the first sight of Juliet, Romeo is very intrigued and he says, “The brightness in her cheeks would shame all those stars” (2.2.19-20). Romeo uses a metaphor to prove that she is shining, bright, high, and beautiful. He feels that she would “shame those stars” with her profound beauty, the thing that stands out most to him. Even when Romeo and Juliet know that things may become difficult between them Romeo says: “For stony limits cannot hold love out”(2.2.72). This personification shows how Romeo's desire for Juliet will not be stopped by anything. If “stoney limits” will not stop Romeo’s love for Juliet, he believes he will never let anything get between them. Through Shakespeare's use of figurative language, Romeo’s feelings for Juliet are

With the idea of light representing love already established, Shakespeare uses it reinforce the impossible odds the lovers are facing. Romeo and Juliet constantly talk of and call on astronomical and light emitting objects to change the dark world they live in. Romeo says when he encounters Juliet on her balcony, “Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon,” (2.2.5). The courses of all of these celestial objects is set in stone and is celestially difficult to change, and yet Romeo and Juliet nonetheless constantly call on these forces to do the impossible. They do the same with their love, too. The lovers believe that their love and light can indeed destroy the corruption and dark of their society even though they know it is astronomically arduous to accomplish. Romeo and Juliet’s love, they hope, will shine out the dark, letting them live together in a world that accepts them.

The previous passage was Romeo describing Juliet as beautiful as the sun, and professing his love for Juliet . At this point, Romeo is in the garden speaking to Juliet on the balcony. He refers to Juliet as the light of his world, and uses colorful imagery to describe her looks. This is one another example of the false love that exists. In addition to this quote, the narrator of the play describes Romeo and Juliet as “star-crossed lovers”. Another quote by Juliet describing Romeo in a sexual, lustful way is as follows;

The idea of desperateness and Naivety can be seen throughout the play, such scenes include; when Romeo and Juliet first meet and end up kissing, showing their impulsive behavior to rush into heavy commitments without looking at the consequences; Also seen when Juliet takes the potion which would put her to sleep for 2 days, showing her Naivety and foolishness to make a horrible decision to order to run away with Romeo which would set a domino effect for their deaths; it’s lastly seen where Romeo kills Tybalt through his impulsive and than the reason for that. When Romeo first sees Juliet, he says, "O, she doth teach the torches to burn bright. " It seems she hangs upon the cheek of night,’’ Shakespeare uses metaphors and similes to show her beauty and attraction he feels to her just after a glance. It shows how compulsive, desperate, and quick he is to find love again, as before he was moping and grieving about his ex-Rosaline. Shakespeare used light and dark aspects when Romeo says, “burn bright,’’ contrasting her beauty as if she were so beautiful that

Shakespeare uses images of religion and light in “ Romeo and Juliet” Act 1 Scene 5 to show that the intense blind love Romeo and Juliet feel for each other is more of an idealization of another as something pure and holy. Before meeting Juliet, Romeo claims to be in love a girl named Rosaline who he describes with dark abstract language such as love in the form of "smoke," "fire," "sea," and "madness" (1.1.197-201)—suggesting that the love Romeo felt for Rosaline was superficial love rather than intellectual love. Romeo is than taken out of this dark immature love when he first sees Juliet and describes her beauty as a heavenly beacon of light “doth teach the torches to burn bright” and something too angelic and pure, “for the Earth too

When Romeo met Juliet, he was only amazed by the pure beauty of her face and forgot all about his last love, Rosaline. “O, she doth teach the torches to burn bright!” (1.5.46) He hadn’t given his new love for Juliet much thought, and dived headfirst into wanting to be with her.

In her soliloquy, Juliet compares Romeo to a star. She sees not the darkness surrounding his name and the evil that her family sees in any given Montague. Instead, Juliet sees his light as being the good in the nothingness. As fond as their love is, Juliet still feels some doubt. “O swear not by the moon,/ th’ inconstant moon,/That monthly changes in her circle orb,/

In Romeo and Juliet Shakespeare uses the ideas of light and dark to show Romeo and Juliet's love. It also the people represent the light and the dark in their relationship. In romeo and Juliet they have people to show the light( people that want them together) and the dark ( people who don't want them together). Friar Laurence is one of the people who represents the light because he wants them together. The nurse can also be considered the light too.

In William Shakespeare’s play Romeo and Juliet, Romeo’s strong impulsivity causes conflict and his emotional swings can lead him to make sudden and sometimes harmful decisions. This is clearly shown when Romeo’s sudden lust for Juliet causes him to marry her within 24 hours and causes a future brawl between the Capulets and Montagues. The ball was a grand event that Romeo dreaded to go to after his dear Rosaline broke his heart and decided to stay chase. Romeo felt a great woe but after glancing at Juliet from across a crowded dance floor, he was in love once again. “O, she doth teach the torches to burn bright!/Did my heart love till now? Forswear it, sight, For I ne'er saw

Brennan, Ava English,1 Romeo and Juliet Essay Shakespeare’s famous play, Romeo and Juliet, is easily a perfect example of a tragic love story. With murder, forbidden love, and suicide all playing a role in the storyline, Shakespeare has little problem in showing the darker and gorier aspects of love. In Romeo and Juliet, William Shakespeare uses light and dark symbolisms to represent love and how paradoxical it is. When Romeo and Juliet first lay eyes on each other, it was immediately an impossible love. A romance destined to die except in the twisted fate of the lovers dying and not the emotions of love itself.

Act 2 Scene 2 Shakespeare uses lightness and darkness to show Romeo and Juliet’s love developing. The metaphor ‘Juliet is the sun’ is illustrating how much she means to Romeo, as without the sun we wouldn’t be able to live which is proposing Romeo needs Juliet to be able to survive. Shakespeare cleverly uses a metaphor to describe Juliet as the sun instead of a simile ‘Juliet is like the sun’, for example, as if she was like it this could mean many other people could be like the sun. However, saying she is the sun is implying that she is the only one, as there is only one sun, and she is the only one to Romeo who could make him feel this way. This shows us how much Romeo feels about Juliet.

Both Romeo and Juliet idolize each other as spiritual beings. Romeo as heavenly “stars” (3.2.22) and Juliet as a “bright angel”(2.2.26). The young couple does not suffer in professing their love to one another alone, nor do they disrupt their sacred

One of the prime motifs most repeated/echoed/frequent/recurring/periodic motifs in Romeo and Juliet by Shakespeare is the coexistence/interaction between light and darkness. Shakespeare generally uses light and dark/night and day to explore opposing alternatives in a likely situation/circumstance. Characters who display/advertise/demonstrate/evince/model/flaunt respect and innocence are associated with light, while characters who ^ death and malicious/evil/immoral/sinful/vile/wicked/guiltiness are repeatedly seen connected to darkness. Light and dark imagery is used/recycled throughout the play to analyze/examine in contrast Romeo and Juliet’s romance and feelings towards one another. The contrast between light and dark imagery symbolizes unnatural/fake/not