Romeo All Alone-e-o Shakespeare has a way of balancing soliloquies and asides in a significant moment in Romeo and Juliet. The soliloquy in Acts 5 Scene 3 by Romeo was momentous. Readers of Romeo and Juliet know this scene well. When Juliet died Romeo became miserable, begging death to take his life. This moment tells how tragic Juliet’s death was to Romeo. He loved her so much, he didn’t want to live without her. There is only a couple of soliloquies in the play, so it shows the significance of this particular one. This moment represents the balance of Shakespeare’s soliloquies and asides, and the true love Romeo had for Juliet. Shakespeare used an aside and soliloquy in such an unique way. While Romeo is having a private moment with his …show more content…
They are very important in this play. In Act 5 Scene 3, one is used when Romeo proclaims he would rather die than be with Juliet. He is miserable at the thought of being without her. He said, “O my love, my wife! Death, that hath sucked the honey of thy breath, Hath had no power yet upon thy beauty. Thou art not conquer’d; beauty’s ensign yet Is crimson in thy lips and in thy cheeks, And death’s pale flag is not advanced there. Tybalt, liest thou there in thy bloody sheet? O, what more favor can I do to thee Than with that hand that cut thy youth in twain To sunder his that was thine enemy? Forgive me, cousin! Ah, dear Juliet, Why art thou yet so fair? Shall I believe That unsubstantial death is amorous, And that the lean abhorred monster keeps Thee here in the dark to be his paramour? For fear of that, I still will stay with thee And never from this palace of dim night Depart again. Here, here will I remain With worms that are thy chambermaids. Oh, here Will I set up my everlasting rest, And shake the yoke of inauspicious stars From this world-wearied flesh. Eyes, look your last! Arms, take your last embrace. And, lips, O you The doors of breath, seal with a righteous kiss A dateless bargain to engrossing death! (kisses Juliet) Come, bitter conduct, come, unsavory guide, Thou desperate pilot, now at once run on The dashing rocks thy seasick,weary bark! Here’s to my love! (drinks) O true apothecary! Thy drugs are