Romeo And Juliet Rhetorical Analysis

Sophie Bailey-Ozier Ms. Brunson English 2 5/24/24 Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet By Sophie Bailey-Ozier Some may consider love to be the miracle of life, to be the driving factor for living. The play explores the relationship between the two star-crossed lovers, Romeo and a young Juliet, and how fate is dead set on keeping them from being together, ending with them sadly taking their own lives instead of living without each other. In the tragedy “Romeo and Juliet”, playwright William Shakespeare uses metaphors and hyperboles to demonstrate how love affects their extreme actions. Using metaphors, Shakespeare explores how love affected Romeo and Juliet's extreme actions. Lord Capulet hosted a party, inviting everyone except the montagues. Romeo

Juliet asked him how he got over the wall. Romeo tells Juliet that “With love’s light wings did I perch these walls, For stony limits cannot hold love out And what love can do, that dares love attempt”(2.2.71-73). With the use of metaphor, Romeo compares the depth of his love for Juliet by declaring that it gives him wings. In other words, Romeo is so infatuated with Juliet that he can’t see her, and is so in love with her that he climbed a 25ft wall in order to see her. This proves that because of how much he likes Juliet, he states that the only possible way he could have climbed the wall is because love gave him wings. It gave him the ability to reach her. That does however imply that Romeo isn’t thinking clearly, due to the fact that he climbed a wall with virtually nothing to help him and no safety. Furthermore, in the beginning of scene six, Romeo is talking with the Friar while waiting for Juliet to arrive so they can be married. Friar Laurence states “These violent delights have violent ends And in their triumph die, like fire and powder, Which, as they kiss, consume”

He compares them to fire and gunpowder, which when put together, consumes all. It will consume them and in their love they will die.To summarize, Romeo and Juliet have demonstrated such an important lesson about love. Love can be beautiful, but it can also be very dangerous and can make people do things they would never have done otherwise. Along with metaphors, Shakespeare also uses hyperbole to show how the death of Romeo and Juliet occurs. Juliet stays behind after Paris leaves so that she can talk to the Friar about Romeo. This is after Paris and Juliet went to the Friar for a marriage. “I long to die if what thou speak’st speak not of remedy. Chain me with roaring bears, or hide me nightly in a charnel house”(4.1.67-68,81-82). At the beginning of this quote, Juliet is adamant about not marrying Paris. She would rather kill herself than have to be with someone other than Romeo. In the second part of the quote, with the use of hyperbole, Juliet says that if she had to marry Paris she would rather be chained to roaring bears or left in a Charnel