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Review of the Balcony Scene in William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet

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Review of the Balcony Scene in William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet The balcony scene is a key part in Romeo and Juliet as it shows there love for each other for the first time. The balcony scene is after the masked ball in that Romeo and Juliet first meet and through the scene they declare their love and promise marriage. The love between Romeo and Juliet is quite sudden as they meet in one night and in that same night they declare their love to each other and decide to get married. The first time Romeo sets eyes on Juliet it seems he is in love as he is keen to ask as much as he can about her. He starts his elaborate descriptions of her before he has even spoken to her, like when he says 'a …show more content…

They also seem to agree as when Juliet says, 'saints do not move, though grant for prayers sake,' which is showing that she is accepting his offer to kiss her as they have been talking about how pilgrims use their hands to kiss and Romeo is saying that they have lips as well. You can tell that they are very fond of each other because they are friendly and flirty towards each other, shown predominantly by the teasing by Juliet and how Romeo twists her words so that it sounds like she wants to kiss him; which she does not object to. Juliet especially flirts with Romeo with her playing with words, whilst he is so open with her but goes along with her 'game.' Juliet then goes away to talk to her mother and Romeo talks to the nurse and finds out she is a Capulet. He is devastated when he finds out as he says, 'O dear account! My life is my foe's debt.' Juliet then returns and talks to her nurse and finds out that Romeo is Montague, which she seems to actually be more upset about than Romeo as she says, 'my only love sprung from my only hate! Too early seen unknown, and known too late! Prodigious birth of love it is to me, that I must have a loathed enemy.' She has exclamation marks after the first two sentences and she uses more dramatic words than Romeo as she says that she loves her

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