Preview

Comparing Night In Shakespeare's Romeo And Juliet

Good Essays
Open Document
Open Document
315 Words
Grammar
Grammar
Plagiarism
Plagiarism
Writing
Writing
Score
Score
Comparing Night In Shakespeare's Romeo And Juliet
For most people, the night is considered as sad, dark, or a lonely time; and Day is the opposite. Whereas in Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare states the night as the best time for lovers. In the book, two teen’s love life is placed at night. In Act III scene II, Juliet questions the topic, while she waits for Romeo to come. She states the night is the perfect time for them.
For example, Shakespeare uses Apostrophe to show how much juliet wants the night to come. Juliet says, “Come, civil night, thou sober-suited matron, all in black, and learn me how to lose a winning match.”As she waits for Romeo to come so she could lose her virginity (lll.ii.10-12). Throughout the monologue, she talks to the night and begs it to come quickly. In addition,

You May Also Find These Documents Helpful

  • Satisfactory Essays

    The 1968 film of “Romeo and Juliet” is not completely different from the 1998 film but they do have many differences. Although both films kept to the original story of the play, the 1968 film was more of a traditional interpretation than the 1998 film.…

    • 557 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Satisfactory Essays
  • Good Essays

    For my essay I chose to describe the light and dark motifs in "Romeo and Juliet". A motif is a term used to describe a passage in literature that has more than one universal meaning. It is used when a character or narrator is comparing one thing to another. For example the light motifs represent light things such as goodness, while dark motifs represent dark things such as death.…

    • 597 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    In Act 3 Scene 5 of the play “Romeo and Juliet” by William Shakespeare, the scene depicted by the author matches the one described in the song “Daylight” by Maroon 5 almost identically. It would appear that the singer of “Daylight” finds himself in a position similar to that of Romeo in that they are each spending their last night’s with their true loves for a long while. The first example of this is that both are required to leave their loves when the sun rises. When Romeo and Juliet wake up and see the sun rising, Romeo says, “jocund day stands tiptoe on the misty mountain tops” (Romeo and Juliet 3.5.9). The sun coming up is a sign to Romeo that he will have to leave Juliet. This is similar to the line in “Daylight” when the artist says, “When the sun comes up, I will have to leave” (Maroon 5 Daylight). Another place where we find similarities between “Daylight” and “Romeo and Juliet” is when both artists use creative metaphors to say the stars are no longer visible because the night is over. In “Romeo and Juliet” this thought is conveyed when Romeo says, “Night’s candles are burned out” (3.5.9). This quotation’s counterpart from “Daylight” bluntly says, “The stars are burning out”(Maroon 5 Daylight). Both quotations suggest that stars have candle-like qualities and can be snuffed out. In conclusion, the situations of the characters in “Daylight” by Maroon 5 are very similar to those of Romeo and his lover Juliet in the play “Romeo and Juliet” by William…

    • 257 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    When Juliet is preparing to be married to Paris, and her and the friar devise a plan to help her and Romeo escape to Mantua together, the friar says "and that very night shall Romeo bear the hence to Mantua." (4.1, line 117), and "I'll have this knot knit up tomorrow morning"(4.2, line 24) show once again how Romeo and Juliet are happy at night than they are during the day, because they can escape together at night, and during day they must face their families who do not understand their love.…

    • 388 Words
    • 1 Page
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    The word panic comes from the greek word “panikos” which means “pertaining to Pan”. Pan is the greek god of shepherds, flocks, and forests.…

    • 919 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    In the tragedy of Romeo and Juliet, written by William Shakespeare, marriage customs are very strict with high expectations. In the time period of Romeo and Juliet, people had numerous dating styles leading to marriage, they married for different reasons, and had various wedding planning events.…

    • 604 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    Romeo And Juliet Analysis

    • 881 Words
    • 4 Pages

    Context has been a major faction contributing to the way Romeo and Juliet was written. In William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, Baz Luhrmann produced a Romeo and Juliet with a modern context rather than an Elizabethan context. Context has influenced the language and representation of ideas throughout Romeo and Juliet, notably with the themes: Loyalty Vs. Disloyalty, Power and inequality. These themes have changed the way Romeo and Juliet was written and put them into a different context.…

    • 881 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    Because of their forbidden love, Romeo and Juliet are forced into conflict with the social world around them: family, friends, political authority, and even religion. The lovers try to avoid this conflict by hiding, by escaping from it. They prefer the privacy of nighttime to the public world of day. They volunteer to give up their names, their social identities, in order to be together. They begin to keep secrets and speak in puns so that they can publicly say one thing while meaning another. On the morning after their marriage, they even go so far as to pretend that day is night so they won't have to part.…

    • 573 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    Then, Juliet confidently confesses her love to Romeo, however, she is not so sure if he, whom she had just met a few hours ago, share the same interest. So, she fears that he will treat her love lightly because he had instantly won her love. She says, “not impute this yielding to light love, which the dark night hath discovered” (2/2/110-111). In this personification, Juliet gives the night the ability to discover. When the sun sets, the light and warmth that it produces fade away, and then the night plagues the sky with its darkness, almost like the sun had died. In addition, the night portrays the opposite of the Sun’s role, to give life, therefore, it symbolizes death. If Romeo and Juliet’s love is “discovered” by the night, it means that their relationship will eventually lead to their demise, which is how their story ends, thus indicating that there is no way fourteen year olds could have a surviving relationship. Finally, Romeo, who would give up his whole life for Juliet, pledged to the moon to dedicate all his love to…

    • 578 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    Light In Romeo And Juliet

    • 467 Words
    • 2 Pages

    Even through the darkest times in life, there is always light. Moreover, light brightens to overwhelm the darkness. In Night by Elie Wiesel and Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare, a major conflict exists to which people are killed from their violent and inhuman actions. These conflict last for so long, seeming as if there will never be a resolution. However, the motif of light is presented as the thought to never give up for Eliezer, Romeo, and Juliet, in order to reach their goal of freedom or unity.…

    • 467 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Satisfactory Essays

    In today’s world a lot of things can resemble something from the past, like songs, paintings, books, ext. But what about the famous play Romeo and Juliet? Can anything refer to that? Many songs are telling the story of the two lovers but with a modern day twist. For example the song “Check yes Juliet” by We the Kings is a great example. In this song, just like the play; Romeo and Juliet will be torn apart if they get caught. They are running away without anyone knowing, and they will be together forever.…

    • 548 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Satisfactory Essays
  • Good Essays

    Romeo and Juliet

    • 409 Words
    • 2 Pages

    Juliet is in love. She is impatient towards Romeo's upcoming visit. She cannot wait until night fall, until her lover appears and shares his love with her. "Spread thy close curtain, love-performing night, That runaways' eyes may wink, and Romeo Leap to these arms, untalked of and unseen."…

    • 409 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    "Sweet, sweet, sweet nurse, tell me, what says my love?" (RJ 2.5.55) In Zeffirelli's version of Romeo and Juliet, Act 2, Scene 5, Juliet seems bratty and impatient because the nurse fails to deliver the information about Romeo as soon as she walks through the door. Luhrmann made his version more modern, and makes the characters kinder to emphasize their relationship. These movies contain some similarities and differences; they both use some of the same lines, but portray the characters in diffrerent ways and the characters wear different types of costumes.…

    • 382 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    William Shakespeare's highly acclaimed drama Romeo and Juliet is the story of two lovers against fate who by their death end the quarrels between their families, the Montague's and the Capulet. After meeting each other at a masquerade, they fall in one. However, the dread between the houses proves too strong as the story ends with a tragic ending. People who become masters of their trade have first to become masters of the tool. For a writer, this tool is language, and throughout history, many have wielded the written word, including William Shakespeare. Throughout Romeo and Juliet, William Shakespeare uses these words to convey more than their surface value. This is done by using confusion, most notably in the form of oxymorons and puns.…

    • 497 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    Shakespeare through the use of symbol, demonstrates how light can describe love and darkness can denote hate: “Some consequences yet hanging in the stars…night's revels, and expire the term of a despised life closed in…vile forfeit of untimely death.” (p. 49 lines 114-118). For the theme asserted by the diction suggest there is two paths to follow in one’s life, one of love and the other of hate different in nature but both similarly led to the same destination even though they are encompassed by different events and actions. The diction “night revels” symbolizes, darkness through night, can create a force consuming the sky. However, the word “stars” can present a symbol suggesting light can penetrate this darkness, shining through as small sparks of light in the…

    • 331 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Good Essays