She believed that Romeo was a great guy, but now she is starting to doubt her decisions because he killed Tybalt. In order to show the good and bad in Romeo, Shakespeare uses many oxymorons in this passage. Juliet uses the oxymoron “Beautiful tyrant!” and “Fiend angelical!”(III.ii.81). These are oxymorons because a tyrant is never described as beautiful and an angel cant be
“To a father growing old nothing is dearer than a daughter” (Euripides). In Act Three, Scene Five of William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, Lord Capulet, the father of Juliet, learns that Juliet did not want to get married to Paris. In this monologue, he insults Juliet for thinking about turning down the offer and gives reasons on why she should accept the marriage. Lord Capulet uses diction to emphasize how Juliet does not have the power to turn down this proposal. For example, as he is describing Juliet, he exclaims, “And then to have a wretched puling fool, /
I could not catch what he whispered in his valet’s ear, but I did not have to wait very long to learn why was so cagey. Suddenly, raising his arms, in a high gesture, meant to get everyone’s attention, the Baron called on us to keep quiet, while he’d make an announcement. He waited, then, stubbornly, for his captive audience to remain silent, to finally speak.
This passage occurs in Act Three, Scene One. At the time of this quote, Mercutio is speaking directly to Romeo and Benvolio as they are the two characters physically with Mercutio at the time. However, the speech was intended for the houses of both Montague and Capulet as they had made a fool of him enough to result in his untimely death. Tybalt disrupted Mercutio and Benvolio in search of Romeo as Tybalt had the intent to fight him. However, Mercutio continued to make vulgar remarks towards Tybalt until eventually causing a fight of their own.
William Shakespeare’s illustrious play, Romeo and Juliet, takes place in Verona, Italy where the readers meet start-crossed lovers, Romeo and Juliet and watch them meet by fate and fall in love instantly, whilst their parents are mortal enemies who have been fighting for decades. Their confessed love for each other doesn’t last long, as both of them commit suicide for the love of the other. Prior to the passage, Juliet is standing on her balcony as she is talking to herself about Romeo and admits her love for him but little did she know that Romeo was standing right there and head her say all of it. He then goes to her and admits his love for her and they plan to get married the next day. In the passage provided, Shakespeare introduces
One of William Shakespeare’s many famous plays, Romeo and Juliet is a dramatic tragedy that is one of the best examples of Shakespeare’s ability to use rhetorical devices to invoke emotion and persuade the audience. In Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare specifically uses abundant personification and juxtaposition along with dramatic irony in Romeo’s soliloquy of act 5, scene 3. These literary devices are used to create a strong underlying rhetorical effect of doom and inevitability in Shakespere’s audience. Multiple times throughout Romeo’s
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
In Act 2, Scene 3 of Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare utilizes personification, juxtaposition, and metaphors during Friar Lawrence's soliloquy in order to emphasize the contrast between life and death, good and bad. He proclaims that all things have the potential to be used for good or evil because nothing is so completely good or bad it has no possibility of being anything else. Early in Friar Lawrence’s soliloquy, Shakespeare uses metaphors to highlight the comparison between life and death. He states, “The earth, that’s nature’s mother, is her tomb. What is her burying, grave that is her womb.”
When the nurse tells Juliet that Tybalt is dead and Romeo is going to be banished, Juliet tries to show loving affection to Romeo by putting wonderful and awful words together: “beautiful tyrant,” “damned saint,” “honorable villain,” “fiend angelical” (3.2.75-79). Shakespeare uses many oxymorons to show that Juliet is in a tragic state where she does not want to pick any sides. Because Juliet can not and has not told her parents about the marriage between Romeo and Juliet, she is careful with what words she says to her family. When her mom, Lady Capulet, talks about sending poison to Romeo to kill him, Juliet suggests to “find out but a man to bear a poison, I would temper it” (3.5.96-97). Juliet takes a massive risk and declares she will make the poison herself for Romeo because she is so desperate to rescue him.
Act 1 Passage Quiz This passage has the structure of a sonnet since it is written in iambic pentameter, has the same rhyming scheme and the correct number of lines. For starter, the passage is written in iambic pentameter, which means that one syllable is unstressed, while the other is stressed. An example of this is in line 4, the word to, is unstressed, while smooth is stressed, and the pattern continues... In addition, the passage includes the correct rhyming pattern of a sonnet.
It was known in the beginning of the story that the Monegues and the Capulets had hatred for each other. Juliet was a Capulet and Romeo was a Monegue which meant they were bound for failure and to not be seen together. William Shakespeare used juxtaposition to compare the two parties by emphasizing to the reader that they shared fighting and war but their love brought them together. By contrasting how different Romeo and Juliet were, it helped to convey the similarities they share when they are together. In the beginning of the story, when the two parties were in a fight, one states, “‘What, draw and talk peace?
Juliet 's apparent death reveals the reactions and true emotions that her parents, The nurse and Paris felt towards her. Act 4 scene 5 starts with a humorous and eager tone but suddenly switches to a more sorrowful and sad tone as soon as the nurse discovers Juliet’s pale dead body. They were shocked and upset because it meant to be juliet 's wedding night. Their attitude and reaction shows us the importance of Juliet in their lives. Their relationships with Juliet in the past have an impact on the way they reacted.
In ACT 3, scene 2, line 000, Juliet uses oxymoron to express her distress upon learning of Romeo killing Tybalt, “Beautiful tyrant! Fiend angelical.” This statement uses two conflicting terms together. Oxymoron is used to express Juliet’s internal conflict on Romeo being her husband but him also having killed her cousin
Miscommunication in Romeo and Juliet Ralph Waldo Emerson once said, “Every violation of truth is not only a sort of suicide in the liar, but is a stab at the health of human society” (The Best Quotes About Lies and Lying). People in this world lie all the time because they think that they are helping instead of telling the truth. When the truth comes out in the society people are more hurt than if a person just told the truth instead of lying. In William Shakespeare's, The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet, Romeo and Juliet die from miscommunication between the characters, not fate.
Juliet says, “Beautiful tyrant! Fiend angelical!” (III II 81) - the oxymoron depicts her conflicting emotions. Tyrants are rarely described as being beautiful. Similarly, a fiend is not an angel.
