Authors say that the toughest part of writing is creating a story that is not only interesting to the author, but to the audience as well. The way to forming the link between writer and reader is through the characters that are illustrated. The audience can be completely put off by a story if the characters do not seem real or if their thoughts and feelings are just told to the audience by the narrator. A story becomes real when the characters come to life; which, can be done through indirect characterizations such as Oxymorons, paradoxes, and juxtapositions. Playwright William Shakespeare is renowned in the literary world for his indirect characterization skills. Romeo and Juliet is an example of one of his many brilliant plays. Shakespeare uses juxtapositions, paradoxes, and oxymorons to indirectly characterize his characters in Romeo and Juliet and make them more complex. Shakespeare uses juxtapositions and oxymorons to indirectly characterize Juliet and make her more complex. When Juliet is waiting for Romeo …show more content…
Friar Lawrence is very insightful and this is not better shown than in his opening speech when he says, “Which as they kiss, consume. The sweetest honey/ is loathsome in its own deliciousness/ And in the taste confounds the appetite/ Therefore love moderately: long love doth so;/ Too swift as tardy too slow,” (2.6,11-15). Friar Laurence is using a paradox when he says that “honey is loathsome in its own deliciousness” and he explains that he believes in too much of a good thing by comparing honey that is too sweet and love that is happens too quickly. He is displaying his wisdom, offering advice, and foreshadowing the play when he goes on about how dangerous it is to fall in love too fast. Even though his later actions such as marrying Romeo and Juliet show that he often fails to act upon his views, Friar Laurence shows that he does know the complexity of