Romeo And Juliet Relationship Essay
Juliet Capulet and her relationship to Romeo in Act 3 Scene 2
Assignment for Literature 1
2012/2013
Name
Student number Juliet
O serpent heart, hid with a flowering face!
Did ever dragon keep so fair a cave?
Beautiful tyrant! Fiend angelical!
…
My husband lives, that Tybalt would have slain;
And Tybalt’s dead, that would have slain my husband.
All this is comfort. Wherefore weep I then?
In my essay I aim to characterize Juliet’s relationship towards Romeo based on an excerpt of the play, namely 3.2.73-107. I will outline features of Juliet’s role in the play and contrast and compare difference of opinions between Juliet and her Nurse. Furthermore, I attempt to interpret the language Juliet uses to express herself in the passage.
I consider this particular scene when Juliet learns about Tybalt’s …show more content…
Play of contrasts is a very symbolic aspect of the play – consider significance between light and dark, nobility vs. servants, fate vs. own will, rebellious Romeo vs. obedient Juliet. We can also observe the contraries in the cited passage where Juliet addresses Romeo in a very distinctive way using oxymora. A good example is 3.2.75 where she calls Romeo “Beautiful tyrant! Fiend angelical!”. She is asking herself “who is Romeo?”. Is he beautiful or is he a tyrant? Is he angelical or a fiend? She suddenly doesn’t know what to believe anymore. If we look in the commentary in the back of the book we see that angelical means “Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light.” (Pp. 205). Here we see again the idea of light where Satan is the darkness and angel is the light. Romeo often refers to Juliet as the light while he prefers dark. “Even before he meets Juliet, Romeo seeks darkness.” Juliet’s choice of words here probably corresponds with her state of mind. Her feelings are ambivalent, clashing with one another, which is projected in the
Assignment for Literature 1
2012/2013
Name
Student number Juliet
O serpent heart, hid with a flowering face!
Did ever dragon keep so fair a cave?
Beautiful tyrant! Fiend angelical!
…
My husband lives, that Tybalt would have slain;
And Tybalt’s dead, that would have slain my husband.
All this is comfort. Wherefore weep I then?
In my essay I aim to characterize Juliet’s relationship towards Romeo based on an excerpt of the play, namely 3.2.73-107. I will outline features of Juliet’s role in the play and contrast and compare difference of opinions between Juliet and her Nurse. Furthermore, I attempt to interpret the language Juliet uses to express herself in the passage.
I consider this particular scene when Juliet learns about Tybalt’s …show more content…
Play of contrasts is a very symbolic aspect of the play – consider significance between light and dark, nobility vs. servants, fate vs. own will, rebellious Romeo vs. obedient Juliet. We can also observe the contraries in the cited passage where Juliet addresses Romeo in a very distinctive way using oxymora. A good example is 3.2.75 where she calls Romeo “Beautiful tyrant! Fiend angelical!”. She is asking herself “who is Romeo?”. Is he beautiful or is he a tyrant? Is he angelical or a fiend? She suddenly doesn’t know what to believe anymore. If we look in the commentary in the back of the book we see that angelical means “Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light.” (Pp. 205). Here we see again the idea of light where Satan is the darkness and angel is the light. Romeo often refers to Juliet as the light while he prefers dark. “Even before he meets Juliet, Romeo seeks darkness.” Juliet’s choice of words here probably corresponds with her state of mind. Her feelings are ambivalent, clashing with one another, which is projected in the