Romeo And Juliet Light And Dark

In the beginning both Romeo and Juliet are in a symbolic darkness. As soon as Romeo sees Juliet he compares her to the torches in the Capulet’s hall: “O, she doth teach the torches to burn bright! (I.II.26)” Later Juliet compares Romeo to a lightening flash, which also ties into the symbolic speed of their love. Lightening is short and sudden, it does not last forever; as is their romance, the darkness will triumph. The duality comes in when they actually start to be together. The light starts to become an enemy because they have to part at dawn. They soon become friendly with the dark again and then forever will be in the dark because they commit suicide. This also brings up another type of duality, the duality of their love. Both Romeo and Juliet are enemies and lovers. As Juliet 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 love a loathed enemy. (I.V.139-142)” The Nurse and Friar Lawrence both try to help the two of them, but in the end the lovers suffer. Although their deaths are tragic, they are extremely important examples of duality. Without the suicides, the Capulets and Montagues would not have been able to begin fixing old

The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet is one of the greatest love stories ever told. This is evident in today’s society, with the story being retold again and again in theatre productions, books, and movie spinoffs. The story is of two lovers, whose love was doomed from the start due to their disputing families, the Capulets and Montagues, who would never see a marriage between the two. Romeo and Juliet eventually take their own lives, ceasing their families’ fighting. William Shakespeare, the playwright who wrote Romeo and Juliet and likely the most famous playwright ever, uses light and dark imagery within the story to highlight the lovers’ affection for one another against the backdrop of their lives. The motif of light and dark is used, with

Juliet’s state of mind at this point in the play definitely revolves around this idea of light vs. dark – her fears and hopes. After hearing about the loss of her cousin, Tybalt, she faces the obstacle in which she is forced to choose which path to take. Friar Lawrence gives Juliet the opportunity to run away with Romeo, but in order to do so; she must leave behind her remaining loved

The life-death theme of the story can also be shown as a light-dark or love-death relationship. Romeo talks about Juliet as a bright angel shining in the darkness of night, "bright angel, for thou art As glorious to this night, being o'er my head, As is a winged messenger of heaven Unto the white upturned, wond'ring eyes"

In the beginning of the play, the motif of light vs. dark is displayed through imagery. “But all so soon as the all-cheering sun should in the farthest east begin to draw… away from light steals home my heavy son... and makes himself an artificial night.” (Montague, 1.2.127-128 130&133). This quote shows that the happy sun does not affect Romeo and the sad night is how he feels because of the darkness of the night. The quote also reveals that his depressed state is represented by darkness. This reveals a central idea that love will overpower all feelings, because he is sad that his love did not work out and caused him to be depressed.

In Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare reveals the plays turning point of light and dark, day and night, comparing it to good and bad throughout the plot. IN the beginning Romeo compares Juliet to the sun, and kills the darkness with light. He says “Arise, fair sun and kill the envious of the moon.”(2.2.1) Romeo is comparing Juliet to the sin because he wants to see her so the day time is better then the night. As the play continuous Friar Lawrence talks about the night turning into day, saying “The grey-ey’d morn smiles in the frowning night, chequering the eastern clouds with streaks of light...” (2.3.1) This is referring to that the sun kills the darkness of night and makes the earth happier, after this is

Shakespeare uses light references to present their passionate love towards each other such as “o she doth the torches to burn brighter” which infers that Juliet’s beauty outshines the torches that light the party. As on the other hand, Shakespeare uses images of darkness to symbolizes the negative aspects of their love. The use of dark image reminds the audience that it is a doomed relationship because they are” star-crossed lovers”. Furthermore, because their relationship is kept as a secret, they can only be together when “night’s cloak to hide”. Even though, a dark setting portrays the romance but also implies that their relationship must stay hidden as their union is heavily forbidden. There is a constant conflict between light and dark images.But Romeo and Juliet’s conversations are also full of images of angels,saints and gods “My lips, two blushing pilgrims,ready stand”. These images could show that their love is pure and innocent and approved by god. However, it can also emphasize their powerful love, as they don’t only love each other, but also worships each other. For a Shakespearean audience this could be seen as dangerous and sinful- as you weren’t supposed to worship anyone except

In act 1 scene 5 as Romeo breaks out into a rhyming sonnet that are often well known in Shakespeare’s plays as a way to empathize any important situations of love or any arguments. During this sonnet, there is use of light lexis. First of all, Romeo describes Juliet as a source of light, as he states in an oxymoron, “o she doth teach the torches to burn bright!” By using

Whenever the light is mentioned in the story there is always darkness to go hand in hand with it. The light equals to positive relief whereas the darkness exemplifies the dread and misery that always threatens to extinguish those encouraging things. These references to the light and darkness give the reader a sense of the mood and tone of the story. These symbols make the story an important part of

Romeo’s light and dark imagery demonstrates how opposites help people better understand these abstract concepts. In the beginning, Romeo was rejected by his one love, Rosaline, and his father Montague has no idea what to do about Romeo’s moping:

Love is another key theme within the narrative of the Shakespearean tragedy, ‘Romeo and Juliet’, and Baz Luhrmann's modern appropriation. The most famous scene that represents the depth of the characters love is the Balcony scene, and the 1996 appropriation proves greatly effective for a modern audience. A metaphorical comparison within the original play is used to represent Juliet as the ‘Light’ of Romeo’s life. “It is the east, and Juliet is the sun”. Luhrmann’s modern take on this sees the use of lighting when Juliet descends from an elevator, supplementing Romeo’s comparison to the sun as she is the light of the scene. A wide shot is used when both characters are seen,

Representing the fact that Juliet is struggling with her interpation of Romeo character after he killed Tybalt. She thinks he may have the same traits as the devil such as cruelness and wickedness. But her love for him makes her find it hard to belive that that can be possible. She thinks of an angle in their love. Pure and happy is what she sees him as and subconciously wishes he was.

The second scene primarily consists of Romeo and his remarks for Juliet, as seen here: “It is the east, and Juliet is the sun/Arise, fair sun, and kill the moon” (2.2.4-5) It is evident that this quotation by Romeo has examples of both light and dark imagery. Romeo metaphorically compares the sun and moon to Juliet and Rosaline,

“More light and light, more dark and dark our woes.” (page 58). Here, Romeo is explaining how he has brought his lover light from the darkness she had settled in, and that essentially, though as the sun rises, the darkness will come back due to the fact he has to leave, he has brought her a glimpse of the light that could be, even temporarily. “O she doth teach the torches to burn bright” (34). Romeo is talking of how Juliet is the one who can teach the worst situations to look positively, and that her touch can make all hardships

Romeo and Juliet was Shakespeare’s most famous play which is about love of two teenagers of two rival families. Since Romeo’s family and Juliet’s family are rivals, their families don’t agree with the marriage of their children to each other. However, Romeo and Juliet despite the opposition of their families secretly get married at church and insist on reaching their goal of being together. The whole story is played in the theatre style of the Renaissance; audiences could see violence, young boys are playing female rolls without wearing masks, many scenes and time change. However, if it was played in Greek theatre style, the audience could see a different style of performance and there would be a different effect. In Greek Theatre we would