When two people fall in love, it is natural for the besotted to express their infatuation for the other whether it be with artwork, physicality, writing, or other forms of expression. Throughout William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, two star crossed lovers by the names of Romeo Montague and Juliet Capulet fall in love only to end up committing suicide because of their families ongoing feud. Shakespeare uses allusion, personification, and soliloquy throughout the theatrical playwright in order to express Romeo and Juliet’s deep love for one another when still alive.
Shakespeare’s use of allusion during Romeo and Juliet allows the audience to comprehend the lover’s deep attraction for each other. For instance, the night Romeo first meets Juliet he becomes so attracted to her beauty that he follows her to her house. Juliet
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In the same scene as mentioned earlier, Romeo expresses his love for Juliet while standing below her balcony. When Juliet enters on her veranda, he states that “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” (Act 2, Scene 2). Romeo’s comparison to Juliet as the sun killing the an inanimate jealous moon allows the reader to comprehend that he sees Juliet as a beacon of light which can destroy anything negative in his life. Shakespeare additionally uses personification in Romeo and Juliet during the same scene. Romeo refers to Juliet’s blushing face and how “The brightness of her cheek would shame those stars” (Act 2, Scene 2). Romeo believes that Juliet’s beauty alone is brighter than any star. This opinion of Romeo’s gives perspective to the reader of how much Romeo is infatuated with Juliet. Shakespeare’s use of personification throughout Romeo and Juliet provides in depth knowledge to his audience on how deep Romeo and Juliet’s admiration for one another
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
Modern audiences have been reintroduced to William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet largely through modern film reinterpretations of the play. Many of these films, most notably Baz Luhrmann’s 1996 version of Romeo and Juliet and John Madden’s 1998 Shakespeare in Love, have focused on the tragic destiny of these "two star-crossed lovers". Seemingly, it is the destiny of Romeo and Juliet to commit suicide because they are not allowed to love each other. It’s the kind of dramatic story that makes teenage hearts swoon: pure love, passionate love, forbidden love. And while the passionate romance of young Capulet and young Montague is essential to the play, it is by
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.
In this 16th Century play William Shakespeare demonstrates the true powers of loves affect, and how much you would be willing to go to get your desired , Shakespeare would create a piece called Romeo and Juliet, a love between two people whose families are enemies, the Capulets and the Montagues. To show the love between one another Shakespeare uses literary devices such as soliloquy, hyperbole, situational irony, and pun throughout the play. This helps
The balcony takes the moment when Romeo and Juliet declared their love for each other. In the story, Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare, he employs the use of personification and hyperbole in order to suggest the feelings felt by both characters and the meaning of being in love in the eyes of Romeo and Juliet. For instance, personification is evident in, “Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon, Who is always sick and pale with grief, That thou her maid art fair than she” (R&J 2.2.4-6). By incorporating personification in this way, Shakespeare conveys the meaning of love when Juliet is looking up at the sun and explains the beauty, that rises up like a sun and presents the picture of killing the jealous moon.
Romeo and Juliet’s excessive love and blind love are the most powerful ingredients to their self-destruction. The young lovers, Romeo and Juliet’s idolatry for each other symbolizes excessive love by them willing to go against their families and committing suicide at the
In Romeo And Juliet Shakespeare uses similes, metaphors, and hyperboles to show that Romeo and Juliet's relationship is solely based on impulse and immeasurable looks.
Romeo and Juliet use hyperbole and personification for how much they love each other. Romeo conveys to the readers and Juliet how much he is willing to sacrifice for her. On the other hand, Juliet conveys to readers and Romeo how they will keep saying good night back in forth as young lovers in modern times will not want to end the phone first. Romeo and Juliet provide proof to each other and readers that they love each other very dearly. Figurative language in the balcony scene of Romeo and Juliet demonstrates foreshadowing of Romeo and Juliet’s tragic flaw. Romeo and Juliet’s tragic flaw is being overly dramatic. In the balcony scene, hyperbole is used by both Romeo and Juliet to describe their new born love. Juliet provides description for her love as she tells Romeo, “My bounty is boundless as the sea, my love as deep” (Shakespeare 2.2.140-141).She relays her love to Romeo and exaggerates a love born only few hours ago. Romeo also demonstrates the same dramatic behavior when he is describing how much he is describing Juliet as “It is the east and Juliet is the sun” (Shakespeare
A relationship between people can have a great effect on a person’s actions and can reveal a lot of information on a person. Often times, a person can tell how much someone cares for them through a relationship. If there is a strong relationship between people, they will often times care for and help each other. In “Romeo and Juliet,” William Shakespeare uses personification of the sun, hyperboles showing emotion, and foreshadowing of events to show the strong relationship between Friar Lawrence and Romeo, and how they care for each other in “Romeo and Juliet.” In “Romeo and Juliet,” Personification is a key literary device that Shakespeare uses to reveal the trust and care that Friar Lawrence shows towards Romeo.
The play Romeo and Juliet has been considered to be the most touching love story of all time, but when you look closer and past all the initial “fantasies”, you see the truth. Romeo and Juliet believed that they were in love because of the mere idea of it, however based on their actions and the short amount of time that the stages of their “love” progressed in, it soon became clear that what they were actually feeling was infatuation.
Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet is a tragedy that involves young lovers, their “untimely death,” and a feud between their two families. The Capulets and the Montagues war against each other. The feud continues to escalate and provides the background for the story of these “two star-crossed lovers.” This literary masterpiece is still relevant today since it involves parental ambition, family fighting, and young love.
The Tragedy of Romeo & Juliet, by William Shakespeare, is one of the most well known and influential pieces in English literature; more importantly, most people recognize it as a story of true love, or star-crossed lovers. This play tells the story of Romeo and Juliet, who are from two feuding families. They fall in love with each other, despite being from rivaling families, and face numerous obstacles because of the feud. After a series of tragic events and miscommunication, Romeo and Juliet end up taking their lives for their “true love”. However, Romeo and Juliet’s decisions do not seem to be out of true love as they claim, but rather infatuation. In The Tragedy of Romeo & Juliet, William Shakespeare teaches readers that infatuation can
Throughout the history of literature, there have been many adroit and skilled virtuoso writers, and of these men is one of the most grandeur playwrights of all time— William Shakespeare. The aspects that make Shakespeare such a great writer is his ability to captivate a reader with his expression of words. As evident in many of Shakespeare’s plays, love takes a lofty role in each of Shakespeare's plays, and the most phenomenal of these plays is the tragedy of Romeo and Juliet. Romeo and Juliet is a play that is about a young man and a young women who are both from two very noble and high-born families, the Capulets and Montagues. For years, there has been a deep animosity between these two families.
The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare portrays the suspenseful story of two star-crossed lovers. A family feud between the Montague family, Romeo’s side, and the Capulet’s side, Juliet’s side, forbids them to be together when they meet one faithful night. Shakespeare uses an abundance of literary devices to show the theme of love only leads to death and sorrow. He uses similes, oxymora, and foreshadowing. He expresses these three devices through the characters and especially the love between the star-crossed lovers, Romeo and Juliet. Shakespeare expresses his literary devices through the dialogue between the characters. The dialogue is shared between the main characters to help contrast with the theme.
Many famous characters made their way into William Shakespeare 's Romeo and Juliet is a clever way. The most influential and important literary device in William Shakespeare 's Romeo and Juliet is allusion, Shakespeare uses it to bring the reader into the story and help them to make connections to other things, to give the reader something in mythology or scripture to help the them better understand the situation, to make the reader feel a connection with the play, and to add in interesting aspects into the play to keep the reader thinking and always aware.