The line, “some will be punished” shows that the Prince is not willing to let this go and wants to teach everybody a lesson about unnecessary hatred and rival and the consequence. When he says, “For never was a story more woe / Than this Juliet and her Romeo” the Prince is making a promise that something like this will never happen again because he will be their to stop it. This presents the Prince as a concerned political figure that cares about maintaining the public peace at any cost.
This image is essential to the play’s plot because it is the denouement or the resolution of the plot. This occurs when the Capulets and Montagues see their children dead and they realized that their bitter feud must end. This resolves the conflict between the feuding families and concludes the story of Romeo and Juliet. …show more content…
“Glooming peace” are contradictory words because glooming is dark and sad while peace is happy and pleasant. The oxymoron convey the image of the sadness and pain caused by the feud. The ‘‘Glooming’’ was used to describe the tragic deaths of Romeo and Juliet while peace was used to describe the truce made between the feuding families due to their children’s death. It shows us that it even though Romeo and Juliet’s untimely death was sorrowful, the dark time was able to have some light due to the peace made between the Montagues and Capulets. This image connects to the motif of light vs dark because it comparing the tragic deaths of Romeo and Juliet, the dark, to the ending of the feud, the