How Shakespeare presents Juliet as an emotional girl Intro: One way Shakespeare presents Juliet as a female with strong emotions is by using Oxymorons. This idea shows that she has strong conflicting emotions since she is constantly doubting herself. An example of this is when she said: “Beautiful tyrant, fiend angelical.” Here you can see that she uses the words “beautiful” and “tyrant” to refer to Romeo, which are both contradicting themselves; she does this again using the words fiend angelical. This shows that she is confused on how to feel about Romeo since he has just killed her cousin. This also provides the story with more of a sense of balance since Romeo also used Oxymorons in the start of the play when talking to Benvolio about Rosaline: “Feather of Lead” which can be found in Act 1 Scene 1. The use of oxymorons also links to the outside world where a stereo-typical women being very emotional and over-reacting. The use of oxymorons also shows that she is letting her emotions and feelings towards Romeo override her common sense. For example: “A damnèd saint, an honourable villain!”, here we can see that she is calling him a villain due to the killing of her cousin and anyone would instantly use their common sense and not think twice about it. But she is letting her …show more content…
With all these questions, it once again presents Juliet as an emotional girl due to the conflict of emotions. You can see her questioning what to do here: “ Was ever a book containing such vile matter so fairly bound?” and “In mortal paradise of such sweet Flesh?”. In the first quote he is asking the rhetorical question of why God had to put an evil person in such a fair body.This just proves her contrast of emotions due to the fact that she loves the way that he looks but there is still the thought in her mind that she no longer has a cousin due to