As part of the Capulet household, she grieves the loss of Tybalt as a family member. The Nurse, on the other hand, expresses her feelings plainly. Juliet expresses her conflicting emotions for Romeo using oxymoronic language: "Beautiful tyrant, fiend angelical." Juliet feels conflicted because her love for Romeo clashes with her love and sense of duty to Tybalt, her cousin. Even when Juliet understands that Romeo is not dead, his banishment is equivalent to death in her eyes: "I'll to my wedding bed / And death, not Romeo, take my maidenhead." The association between Juliet and death as her bridegroom once again pairs the themes of love and death and emphasizes that her young life is constantly overshadowed by death. The Nurse's report transforms Juliet from an anxious young bride into a bereft widow. Here, Romeo brings "day in night." Juliet begs fate to "cut Romeo out in little stars" so that "all the world be in love with night." These stars represent both the timeless quality of the couple's love and their fate as "star-cross'd lovers" who will only truly be united in death. Juliet's eyes were like the stars in Act II, Scene 2, in Act I, Scene 5, she "doth teach the torches to burn bright!," and Juliet was Romeo's sun in the balcony scene. Their affinity for the darkness illustrates their separation from the temporal, feuding world.Īlthough external light (the "garish sun") has become their enemy, the lovers have often provided light for each other. Juliet beckons the darkness because it has been a sanctuary for the couple, "if love be blind, / It best agrees with night." She and Romeo met under the cover of night they agreed to marry as they were shrouded in darkness and were forced to part as dawn broke they consummate their marriage at night and they ultimately die together under the cover of night. Light and dark imagery again play important roles in creating mood, foreshadowing action, and giving fate a vehicle by which to visit itself upon the characters in the play. Although she is unaware of the tragic news that awaits her, Juliet's soliloquy fantasizing about her wedding night embroiders tragic images into the fabric of her epithalamion, or wedding song.
A considerable sense of impending doom hangs in the atmosphere. Juliet's impatience in anticipation of the nurse's arrival echoes her excited anticipation in Act II, Scene 5, when she had to wait for news of the wedding arrangements.
Within the peaceful confines of the Capulet orchard, Juliet looks forward to the "amorous rites" of her marriage to Romeo. Analysis of Setting in the Opening Scenes of Luhrmann's Film, Romeo + Juliet.The Role of Comic Characters in a Tragedy.
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