Many people get to experience falling in love with someone at some point in their life, they go through a process of meeting them, getting to know them and falling in love, and that process repeats until you find the one and settle down. According to Verily Magazine, it takes an average of 27 months before a couple gets married. Some people may even go their whole lives without finding their soulmate; however, in William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, that process happened instantaneously. In the play, Romeo and Juliet met at a party Sunday night and then the next morning they went off to Friar Laurence, the holy man of Verona, to get married. Shakespeare combined the use of dialogue and metaphors to emphasize Romeo’s sensitive and melodramatic side when …show more content…
Through the use of graphic dialogue, Shakespeare develops the sensitive and impulsive side of Romeo. When Benvolio first approached Romeo he said “Good morrow, cousin” to which Romeo replied, “Is the day so young?” (1.1.67) in modern English that would translate to “Is it that early in the day”. The day being early refers to how time flies by when you are having fun, but since Romeo’s feelings for Rosaline are not being reciprocated, his days go by slower. Later that day when Romeo went to the Capulet party, Mercutio, in an effort to cheer him up said, “You are a lover. Borrow Cupid’s wings and soar.” (1.4. 17) but Romeo rejected him by saying “I am too sore empierced with his shaft to soar with his light feathers…Under love’s heavy burden do I sink” (1.4. 20-23). Romeo is saying cupid’s arrow has pierced him so deeply that he is unable to dance because he is