Shakespeare uses light and dark imagery as a way to better describe and introduce his characters. Dark imagery is present in the exposition of the play when Romeo is returning home from his long night out. In a conversation between Lord Montague and Benvolio‚ Montague is telling his nephew of all the recent strange behaviors Romeo has been carrying out. Montague explains‚ “Away from light steals home my heavy son And private in his chamber pens himself‚ shuts up his windows and locks fair daylight
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to Romeo leading up to the tragic death of Romeo and Juliet which causes the Capulets and the Montagues to end their feud because they suspected that it is their destructive feud that caused their children to die and caused the deaths of Tybalt‚ Mercutio‚ and
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Romeo and Juliet come from dysfunctional families. This is the cause of Romeo and Juliet’s tragedy. It is what lead to the death of both Romeo and Juliet. A dysfunctional family is a family with conflict‚ misbehaviour or neglect. Families should be close and understanding of each other. They should love one another and share their love and feelings. This is not the case with Romeo and Juliet’s families. Both their families had distant parents‚ the parents misunderstood their children and the
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Romeo + Juliet During the play of Romeo and Juliet‚ the characters show love in many different ways. Some characters fall in and out of love very quickly in Romeo and Juliet. For example‚ Romeo is in love with Rosaline at the start of the play‚ which is presented as an immature action. Today‚ we might use the term “puppy love” to describe this. Romeo’s lover Rosaline is shallow and nobody really believes that it will last‚ including Friar Laurence: Romeo – “Thou chid’st me oft for loving Rosaline”
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When Romeo came to the conclusion that he had been blindsided by his love for Juliet and was becoming effeminate‚ he quickly felt the need to be manly and take revenge on Tybalt for killing Mercutio. Romeo exclaims‚ “O sweet Juliet‚ / Thy beauty hath made me effeminate / And in my temper softened valor’s steel” (III.1.118-120). Romeo blames Juliet as his reason for killing Tybalt. He thinks that their love has made him more feminine and have
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In the play Romeo and Juliet‚ the writer‚ William Shakespeare‚ constructs a theme about the forcefulness of love. During the whole play‚ Act II scene ii expresses this thesis clearly‚ and even afterwards‚ Shakespeare interprets the theme in the play. In act two‚ scene two‚ after Romeo and his friends decide to go back home‚ Romeo decides to abandon them and risk his life to see Juliet once more. He hides in Juliet’s yard and awaits for Juliet to appear. ROMEO He jests at scars that never felt
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a pouring rain‚ proving awkward and melancholy; their love reawakens just as the sun begins to come out. Gatsby’s climactic confrontation with Tom occurs on the hottest day of the summer‚ under the scorching sun (like the fatal encounter between Mercutio and Tybalt in Romeo and Juliet). Wilson kills Gatsby on the first day of autumn‚ as Gatsby floats in his pool despite a palpable chill in the air—a symbolic attempt to stop time and restore his relationship with Daisy to the way it was five years
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Capulet thinks she is grieving over Tybalt‚ and it takes the death of their own children to stop feuding. Romeo and Juliet is a tragic play because a majority of the main characters die. The first death was in Act 3 Scene 1 when Tybalt stabbed Mercutio under Romeo’s arm. Tybalt was the next to die by Romeo sword. Romeo was banished
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marries a man that she did not love. Both of the families were selfish for continuing the fighting and Friar Lawrence ran away when he saw the two families go into the tomb to prevent himself from getting into trouble. Tybalt was selfish for killing Mercutio and Romeo was not thinking of Juliet as he killed her
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has already sinned enough by killing Tybalt. Probably the most important thing that Romeo says to Paris in his speech is‚ “I love thee better than myself.” This sentence is important because Romeo said this to Tybalt in the scene where Tybalt kills Mercutio. What he said to Paris is very important because it not only shows that he does not feel any hatred or anger towards Paris‚ but also it symbolizes his relationship to the Capulet family as well as his love for Juliet. Romeo is not saying that he
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