The scene I chose is the scene on the way to the party (act I scene iv), during this passage benvolio was teasing romeo about his sadness, since he could not understand romeo’s sadness, because he thought Romeo was “in love” with rosaline. However just before this scene Mrs. Capulet talked to Juliet trying to convince her to marry Prince Paris because of his wealthiness, and right after the fourth scene there was the party scene which was the first time Romeo and Juliet met. This event was followed by the famous balcony scene when Juliet declares her love to Romeo. In his plays Shakespeare presents four themes in many different ways mostly in literary device, such as metaphor, simile, hyperbole, echo, and allusion. The four themes are; love, death, …show more content…
In this part Mercutio is teasing Romeo suggesting that he is not in love with Rosaline: “borrow Cupid’s wings, and soar with them above a common bound”. Shakespeare has Mercutio use a classical allusion telling Romeo to become cupid and fly over the wall. The implicit meaning is that Mercutio thinks that Romeo is not in love with Rosaline because a person who is in love is supposed to be happy and light, and Romeo is sad and feels heavy. He tells him to “Borrow Cupid’s wings” so he can fly over the wall to hopefully meet the love of his life at the party, be happy again, and live without the need to lie to himself about his feelings concerning Rosaline. Another example of love is portrayed when Romeo talks about love being a beautiful thing, but also that it hurts when absent from one’s beloved: “is love a tender thing? it is too rough, too rude, too boisterous ,and it pricks like a thorn”. Shakespeare uses a simile comparing love to a thorn, meaning that love is like a rose, beautiful, but roses also have thorns. The thorn here is presented as showing how his love for Rosaline is not real and that is why it hurts, since he is not with his true