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 …show more content…
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
Love plays a crucial role in telling the story of Romeo and Juliet, clearly shown in the appropriated Luhrmann film. Using film as a new medium, cinematic techniques explore the love between Romeo and Juliet. The balcony scene is a clear example of how Luhrmann expresses this. To show his love for Juliet, Romeo decides to sneak into the Capulet mansion to confess his love for her. When Romeo sees Juliet through his window, light shines around her and he describes it as, “ the sun.” This suggests that Romeo is calling Juliet the brightness in his life. Luhrmann decided to portray Romeo
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
The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet is one of the greatest love stories ever told. This is evident in today’s society, with the story being retold again and again in theatre productions, books, and movie spinoffs. The story is of two lovers, whose love was doomed from the start due to their disputing families, the Capulets and Montagues, who would never see a marriage between the two. Romeo and Juliet eventually take their own lives, ceasing their families’ fighting. William Shakespeare, the playwright who wrote Romeo and Juliet and likely the most famous playwright ever, uses light and dark imagery within the story to highlight the lovers’ affection for one another against the backdrop of their lives. The motif of light and dark is used, with
Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet – popularly considered by many to be the quintessential love story of all time – is a play that we are all familiar with in one way or another. Whether it be through the plethora of portrayals, adaptations and performances that exist or through your own reading of the play, chances are you have been acquainted with this tale of “tragic love” at some point in your life. Through this universal familiarity an odd occurrence can be noted, one of almost canonical reverence for the themes commonly believed to be central to the plot. The most widely believed theme of Romeo and Juliet is that of the ideal love unable to exist under the harsh social and political strains of this world. Out of this idea emerge two
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.
Throughout William Shakespeare’s play, Romeo and Juliet, two teenagers fall in love. In the end, they kill themselves over one another. Between these two teenagers, only physical attraction was present. The “star-crossed” lovers faced many trials, and ultimately lost. The lack of Amor doomed Romeo and Juliet’s relationship.
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.
As Shakespeare composes this tragic love story “Violent delights have violent ends / And in their triumph die, like fire and power, / Which as they kiss consume” (2.6.9). In the play Romeo and Juliet an enchanted love leads to violent ends and consumes two people’s lives until their powerful death. When Romeo first lays eyes on the gorgeous Juliet it is love at first sight. Though their love is authentic and empowering, it is also entirely banned. William Shakespeare writes this masterpiece with much delight but also great sorrow. Romeo and Juliet is the most abiding love story of all time. Shakespeare uses many literary devices in his works. Throughout this story the character Juliet changes remarkably. Shakespeare provides evidence for
Shakespeare uses detailed examples to draw clear images of his characters for the audience. Romeo and Juliet is a play about two rival families, the Capulets and the Montagues. Romeo struggles because he is blinded by his love for Juliet and will do anything, even risk death, to see Juliet. Shakespeare uses examples in the story to portray Romeo as an impulsive and passionate character. He demonstrates that he is passionate and impulsive by his inner thoughts and feelings, his actions, and how others view him.
Throughout “Romeo And Juliet”, Romeo uses comparisons and such to express his love for Juliet. Shakespeare uses figurative language like this to describe Romeo and Juliet’s relationship. For example, Romeo often uses biblical references to describe his love for Juliet. When Juliet is at her balcony “o’er [Romeo’s] head,/ as is a winged messenger of heaven” (Shakespeare line 28-29) Romeo indirectly calls her an angel. Through Romeo’s reference to Juliet being an angel, Shakespeare is able to demonstrate Romeo’s perspective of Juliet’s perfection. Romeo also compares nature's beauty to Juliet. He describes her by saying she “is the sun” (Shakespeare line 2). Through this direct comparison Shakespeare
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
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.
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.
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.
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