Theme Of Light And Dark In Romeo And Juliet

Romeo and Juliet’s hope is realized, with the two families coming together, though the price was high. After Romeo hears news of Juliet’s death, Romeo goes to her tomb late at night and kills himself with a poison obtained from the apothecary. Romeo says before entering the tomb, “Give me the light” referring to the torch his companion was holding

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

In Act 2, Scene, 2 Romeo’s attitude to love shifts from an infatuated love towards Rosaline to more true and youthful love he feels for Juliet. When Romeo sets his eyes on Juliet for the first time, he uses light imagery to express his feelings ‘Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon’. For Romeo, Juliet is the sun who has brought brightness into his life like the sun that brought brightness to people’s lives. This beautifully romantic imagery highlights the purity of Romeo’s feelings and underscores to the reader the powerful force of love that Romeo is now entangled in.

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 the film, Friar Lawrence foreshadows the fate of Romeo and Juliet as he states, "These violent delights have violent ends / And in their triumph die, like fire and powder, / Which, as they kiss, consume" (II.vi.9-11). He explains the violent delights refers to the lust and the intense love between Romeo and Juliet, which inevitably leads to violent ends for Romeo and Juliet as they both commit suicide. He relates Romeo and Juliet to fire and powder, explaining as soon as they meet; they will consume each other at the peak of their love and it will result in their mutual demise. In addition, Juliet asks the Nurse to acquire Romeo’s name before he leaves. She exclaims, “If he be married. / My grave is like to be my wedding bed” (I.v.135). This reveals that if Romeo is married, Juliet will die rather than marry anyone else, but she is also unknowingly foreshadowing her fate where her grave does become her wedding bed, next to Romeo. Lastly, Romeo receives a vison before going to the party, stating, “I fear, too early: for my mind misgives / Some consequence yet hanging in the stars / Shall bitterly begin his fearful date / With this night’s revels, and expire the term / Of a despised life closed in my breast / By some vile forfeit of untimely death (I.iv.106-113). This foreshadows that something bad will happen this night that will result in Romeo’s death. It’s true, as

Romeo and Juliet explores the tragic outcome of ‘true love’. In Romeo and Juliet, the two main characters (Romeo and Juliet) die because of their love for each other. What happens in Romeo and Juliet is that Juliet is meant to marry Paris but she doesn’t want to so she drinks a poison that is meant to show all of the signs of death for a certain amount of time and then she would

“From forth the fatal loins of these two foes. A pair of star-crossed lovers take their life”. In the play Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare that takes place in Verona two families long lasting feud ends tragically because their children rather die than have to live without each others love. The entire play is filled with examples of foreshadowing. Romeo and Juliet always refer to death, murder and suicide. For example Juliet says, "My grave is like to be my wedding bed," . Another example of foreshadowing is when Romeo is hesitant to going to the capulets masquerade “I fear too early, for my mind misgives Some consequence yet hanging in the stars Shall bitterly begin his fearful date With this night’s revels... By some vile forfeit of untimely death.". The last example is Romeo telling his dream: "I dreamt my lady came and found me dead-- Strange dream, that gives a dead man leave to think!-- And breathed such life with kisses in my lips.". Foreshadowing shows in Juliet's threat to suicide, Romeo’s doubt before the Capulets’ party, and Romeo’s dream.

William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet focus on the two young lovers, Romeo and Juliet, who fall in love and die within a span of three days. Romeo and Juliet illustrate how the love brings them together to over power the control of their relationship. The moment that Romeo and Juliet declare their love for one another, they try to keep their love a secret since they are the children of the feuding families, the Montagues and the Capulets. Initially their families would be outraged against their relationship that Romeo and Juliet propose to hide the truth of their love. Once Romeo and Juliet reveal to the Nurse and Friar Lawrence their plans to marry, their relationship is nothing but a risk of problems. Romeo is unafraid to show his love that he teases Tybalt teasing him about falling in love with Juliet, although not explicitly. However, the deaths of Mercutio and Tybalt, occur when Romeo and Juliet take actions to protect themselves, but they are not however, protected. Juliet protects her relationship by committing a false death only for Romeo to believe it as true. As a result, the act to protect Romeo and Juliet’s relationship a secret are examples of the failed actions both Romeo and Juliet try to prevent; however, it is not ‘fate’ that control their lives and deaths.

which are shown constantly throughout a text. The night is the most prominent motif in the play, in the night Romeo and Juliet’s relationship flourishes, protects them and then ends with their deaths. ‘For now, these hot days, is the mad blood stirring’ compared to the endless violence in the day scenes and the arguing that goes on between the lovers the night scenes are often peaceful, hopeful and hide their relationship from their families disapproving eyes. The night is often represented as calming and peaceful which it is until the last scene where in the tomb the true tragedy of the play is shown, as night can also mean danger, the plan which was meant to bring peace to the lovers instead brought only

Upon seeing Juliet Romeo exclaims, “O, she doth teach the torches to burn bright! Like a rich jewel in an Ethiope's ear; Beauty too rich for use, for earth too dear!” Romeo compared her to a torch because seeing her made everything come into focus. Juliet also compares Romeo not only to the sun but calls him even more mighty than the sun when she says, “Give me my Romeo. And when I shall die,Take him and cut him out in little stars, And he will make the face of heaven so fine. That all the world will be in love with night, And pay no worship to the garish sun.” So with Romeo and Juliet one goes on a rollercoaster full of references to the light and dark of a situation, but the very last line of the play the Prince says darkness has returned and everything will return to what it once was. The Prince addresses the whole community when he says, “A glooming peace this morning with it brings.The sun, for sorrow, will not show his head.Go hence, to have more talk of these sad things.Some shall be pardoned, and some punishèd.For never was a story of more woe Than this of Juliet and her Romeo.” In Romeo and Juliet Shakespeare makes it bluntly undeniable that fate was in control and whether the light or dark would

In the play The Tragedy of Romeo & Juliet by William Shakespeare, the author illustrates the tragic tale of Romeo and Juliet, two young lovers whose love is forbidden due to the everlasting family feud between the Capulets and the Montagues, however, they are secretly wed by Friar Laurence. Romeo is then banished from the city, leaving Juliet, a soon to be wife of Paris, so in order for her not to get married again, the friar gives Juliet a poison that would put her into a death like coma. Unfortunately, Romeo was not given this information, so when he found her “dead” in the chamber, he committed suicide, leaving Juliet to wake up, only to find her lover dead, thus leading her to also commit suicide, which finally ends the Capulet and Montague

A wedding is a joyful moment when families come together and celebrate the love between two people. Rarely, does a couple marry in secrecy and go as far as faking death to hide their love from their kinsmen. On even more rare accounts does the couple end their own lives, days after getting married. Unfortunately this was the case for the couple in William Shakespeare's play, The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet. Throughout the play it is made clear that Romeo and Juliet are inseparable and madly in love. Unfortunately, the love between Romeo and Juliet is so strong and leads to both of their deaths. Even though many characters impact their deaths it is visible that two characters are most to blame. Sadly, Romeo and

Romeo and Juliet, a tragic love story between two-star crossed lovers, portrays themes that tend to revolve around young love. As the play introduces it’s two main characters, you soon see the challenge that the young lovers would have to face which lead them to the fate of death. The use of imagery and metaphoric language allows us to visualize the theme that is being set throughout the play. Shakespeare gave us several opportunities with his delicate word choice to understand the themes such as “love” and “duality of light and dark”. To help convey these themes to the given audience, Shakespeare carefully words the dialogue of each character to give us different views on each scene.

Light versus dark stands out in lines 33-38 with examples such as “the fresh morning’s dew”, “Adding to clouds more clouds”, and “the all-cheering sun”. Benvolio and Montague use the contrast between light and dark to show the passage of time from night to day and the changes in the weather and to represent Romeo’s depression as he pens himself in his chamber all day letting no light into his room nor his life

The motif light and dark enhance the theme forcefulness of love by forcing them to do anything to be with each other even violence. Romeo and Juliet love was love at first sight. The only way to be with each other for them was to hide their love in the dark and away from light. Love is so powerful that it made Romeo and Juliet betray their family, friends and themselves. They even went out of their ways and broke the rules to get married.