In Williams Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet play, the star crossed lovers share their differences, but love brings forth their similarities. Romeo is portrayed as irrational when it comes to love. Following their first meeting, Romeo instantly falls for Juliet. He climbs over the fence, enters Capulet’s property, and protest for them to “find me here// My life were better ended by their hate,/than death prorogued, wanting of thy love” (2.2.80-83). In other words, Romeo does not care if he were to get caught, as he rather dies because of them than longing for Juliet’s love. Romeo ignores the feud between the two family and neglects to care for his own safety, hence his love for Juliet causes him to act irrationally. Shakespeare employs dark imagery to represent …show more content…
After the fight ended and the two families dispersed, Lord Capulet questioned Benvolio about Romeo. Benvolio recalled that Romeo remained “underneath the grove of the sycamore tree” (1.1.213). “Grove” suggest that the sycamore trees are grouped together, where they not only cast dark shadows, but are able to block patches of sunlight to peer through. Having Romeo rest under the shadows where he avoids sunlight suggest that he desires darkness. Lord Capulet adds how Romeo “locks fair daylight out, and makes himself an artificial night” (1.1.143-4.). Lock has a negative connotation and means to shut and enclose. While the word night is associated with darkness. Thus by wanting to shut out light, and shifting his identity to a night, suggest that he wants to remain and become darkness. Romeo is superficial as his love is driven by appearances. After discovering the ball was going to be held at the Capulet’s house, Benvolio was quick to assert that Romeo can find a “new infection to thy eye” (1.2.51). Infection thy eye literally means a disease that has consumed one's vision. The eye is what enables us to view another, and