Examples Of Personification In Romeo And Juliet

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In the play Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare uses personification to view death as something that took away his daughter and it gives death these human traits to describe it. When Capulet discovers that Juliet has died he describes death a someone who just stole his daughter “Death, that hath ta’en her hence to make me wail, / Ties up my tongue and will not let me speak. / Death is my son-in-law” Capulet is referring to how death took away his only child Juliet before she could be married (4.5.32-38). Shakespeare applied personification here to make Juliet’s death to her father seem tragic and unexpected. This shows the audience that Capulet views death as a human who married his daughter before she could marry Paris. Lord Capulet’s quote is seen