instructed not to disturb the peace but Capulet. The scene is significant because it is when Romeo first sees and meets Juliet. The extract featured is Romeo and Juliet’s first conversation.
This extract with riddled with relgious imagery, the first conversion between Romeo and Juliet is an prolonged Christian metaphor.
Using religion Shakespeare implys that their love can be described through God and Christianity. This means that their love becomes associated with purity and passion of religon. The effect that this imagery would have on the reader, or audience, would be that they would believe Romeo and Juliet’s romance would be only driven and motivated by pure passion and not be explotation or lust. This allows Shakespeare to portary their innocence and what is really just blind and thoughtless love and this is making the feud between the families seem more and more evil and unnesscary. There is also imagery and foreshadowing into the roles that they will have in the relationship, with Romeo clearing being the one that is chasing Juliet however Juliet does not immediatly respond to Romeo advances nor does she reject or make clear that they are unwanted, she allows them to happen and at the end of the conversation she has shown herself to transform from a shy young girl into a more mature and wiser girl who knows what she desires and is clever and has the know-how on how to obtain
it.
The lanuage that Shakespeare uses in this scene is mainly religious metaphors. Because this scene focuses on Romeo and Juliets innocent and pure romance the religious language and metaphors are appropiate. Shakespeare also used metaphor and symbols such as prayer. Prayer is used as a symbol to depict the sacred nature of Romeo and Juliet’s relationship because of Romeo’s ingeunius use of the subject of prayer to get Juliet to kiss him.
Before Romeo and Juliet first kiss they share just fourteen lines between themselves. These fourteen lines make up a what is called a shared sonnet. A sonnent is form of poem often used to write about love. Capturing the beginning of Romeo and Juliet’s love in a sonnet is a perfect balance of literary content and formal style. However Shakespeare also uses the sonnet for a second purpose. In the Prologue is a sonnet that discribes the death of both Romeo and Juliet. The sonnet between Romeo and Juliet in this extract makes a link between their love and what will happen to them later in the play. Using this, Shakespeare uses the sonnets to make a link between Romeo and Juliets love and the events of the play that are to come.
In this extract, from William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, the two characters have their first conversation and this is the readers or audience first glimpse at their relationship and what roles they will have in it. However it contains various Christian metaphors to associate the characters relationship with religion. The extract is written in the form of a sonnet, similar to the prologue and this makes a link between the events of the play and the characters relationship.