Romeo And Juliet Act 3 Figurative Language

Juliet’s mind shifts from restless, to sorrow, to utterly distraught through the variety of scenes in Act 3. As we enter the Capulet’s orchid in Scene 3, we hear Juliet grow restless as she waits for the night. In the beginning of Scene 2, Juliet grows restless. She voices an eloquent soliloquy on her apprehensiveness as the night approached, expressing, “…night before some festival… [when] an impatient child that hath new robes, and may not wear them” (III. ii. 29-31) She uses a metaphor expressing how restless she grows, as she compares herself to an impatient child that has new clothes, and cannot wear them. The figurative language also reveals how she is exhilarated for the night to be with Romeo. Following her well-written soliloquy,