Examples Of Oxymorons In Romeo And Juliet

Whittney Sanchez AMaro

Slattery

English 9 Honors

24 March 2023

Not All Secrets Are Meant to be Kept Love is a really complex thing. It can cause a million things to happen but it can also make everything stay the same. In The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet written by Shakespeare Romeo has been convinced to find love again after an experience of severe heartbreak. After some time, fate helps guide Romeo to find his one true love Juliet. Romeo and Juliet had a forbidden love that was kept secret since their families were such huge rivals. This forbidden love left many impacts on both families and ultimately caused the deaths of many, including their own. In The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeares uses oxymorons and personification to demonstrate

When Juliet was informed about the passing of her cousin and her lover being banished, she felt many different emotions. But when she gathered her thoughts together she started to realize that Romeo was a “Beautiful tyrant! Fiend angelical!/ Dove-feathered raven! Wolvish ravening lamb! (III.ii.75-76). Juliet using all these words that contradict each other to describe Romeo shows that she doesn't know how to feel about him killing her cousin yet and that she is still in shock about this situation. Juliet continuously using words like fiend and tyrant to describe Romeo also shows that she feels betrayed as she now knows her lover is capable of making her grieve and is capable of causing harm to her and her family. But at the same time, Juliet using light

After Romeo had killed himself, Juliet was frantic to join him. As Juliet hurries to find something that can kill her too, she comes across Romeo’s dagger and in relief says “O happy dagger!” (V.iii.169). Juliet being happy to kill herself was because she couldn’t bear to live without Romeo. It is as if Juliet thought that a world without Romeo is a world that shouldn’t be lived in at all. It was never intended for them to die but because Juliet wanted to hide their relationship so badly everything backfired and Juliet hurt herself more by not informing people about the love she and Romeo had. In the same way that Romeo’s death hurt Juliet, their death as a whole hurt their families as well. While the Capulets and the Montagues were making amends, Prince Escalus talked about what the next couple of days are going to be like. Whilst predicting on what the next couple of days are going to look like, Prince Escalus states that “The sun for sorrow will not show his head” (V.iii.306). Saying that the sun is too sad to shine above shows how big of an impact the deaths of Romeo and Juliet really had on everyone. Since their deaths had such a big impact on the sun it is likely that the families of these two kids are going through the worst stages of depression at the moment. Considering that the sun won't shine for a while, there will be dark days