Does Shakespeare Use Soliloquies In Romeo And Juliet

Explore the ways that Shakespeare uses soliloquies to express the emotions of Romeo in the play ‘Romeo and Juliet’ Shakespeare uses many literary devices such as imagery, personification, antithesis, dramatic irony as well as rich vibrant adjectives and nouns, to make the play ‘Romeo and Juliet’ emotive and powerful. All of these are employed in the prologue as well as in soliloquies of Act 2 Scene 2 and Act 5 Scene 3 to express the emotions of Romeo.
In the prologue the context of the story is set describing the love between the children of two feuding families. Thus preparing the audience of the woeful end through negative adjectives and nouns: 'misadventure’, ‘piteous’, ‘death’ ‘bury’, ‘strife’, ‘fearful’, ’death-mark 'd’, ‘rage '. Similarly throughout the play Shakespeare uses antithesis of opposing nouns and adjectives 'ancient..new ', 'bright..night ', 'fair sun…envious moon ' thus sparking the interest of the audience whilst representing the turmoil of the story.
In Act 2 Scence 2 Shakespeare shows Romeo overcome with intense youthful love through his repetitive use of the possessive pronoun 'my ' thus declaring ownership of
Romeo refers to death as a military being 'conquered ', ‘Death’s pale flag ' and states ‘Death is amorous’ and it is a ‘monster’ which covetously ‘keeps’ his Juliet. Here the audience senses that Romeo feels inclined to battle 'death ' for taking away his Juliet. Romeo speaks of entering into ‘bargain’ with Death. Romeo also addresses death and describes the pair as on a metaphorical journey ‘thy seasick weary bark’ which will inevitably also be his end. References to death show it as a being to be contended with and not just an inevitable state. By these words the audience realises Romeo 's abject sense of despair will spur him on into a contract with death which can only mean impending