I think the author chose to use the imagery of sunlight in the first passage because Shakespeare creates a theme of light and dark throughout the book; the light being Juliet and the darkness being Romeo. He speaks of the sunlight rising in the East, symbolizing Juliet’s escalating importance to him. In the second passage, the author uses symbolization form of figurative language, because he wants to create slight irony that Romeo only drank the poison to be with Juliet in the afterlife, and Juliet only took the poison as to be with Romeo in actuality. The poison also
This is why it is important that people take the time to consider their emotions. “But soft, what light through the yonder window breaks?” and “It is the east, and Juliet is the sun”. (2.2.2–3) In this metaphor provided by so called “lovestruck” Romeo prompts in front of Juliet's balcony, "It is the east, and Juliet is the sun," Romeo begins, referring to his beloved Juliet.
The famous lines "But soft! What light through yonder window breaks? It is the east, and Juliet is the sun" open William Shakespeare's tragic play, Romeo and Juliet. The play follows the ill-fated love story of Romeo and Juliet, two young lovers from rival families in Verona, Italy, and their tragic end. While there were many factors that contributed to Juliet's death, Romeo's impulsive behavior and rash decisions were significant factors that ultimately led to her demise.
Romeo and Juliet: Light Imagery Shakespeare uses light imagery to describe Romeo and Juliet’s love. He details their relationship exemplified through light. In his 1597 tragedy, Romeo and Juliet, William Shakespeare uses light imagery to explain Romeo and Juliet’s love further. In Romeo’s soliloquy, expressing his love for Juliet, he says, "Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon.
Thus, light imagery is effectively used to establish the romantic atmosphere of Romeo and Juliet’s first encounter, whereas dark imagery is used to foreshadow the dreadful events of the play’s conclusion, therefore creating a suspenseful atmosphere. Moreover, characters in the play use light imagery as they experience the elation of love, yet also dark imagery as they feel the heartbreak of rejection. Thus, as shown in Romeo and Juliet, the balance between light and darkness, happiness and sadness is a natural occurrence, which one cannot prevent nor
his friends want him to find a new girl to like so, that he isn’t sad anymore. Moving on, Words like bright and night display light and dark imagery. In this instance, the first three lines are referring to how beautiful Juliet is and how She stands out against the darkness like a jeweled earring hanging against
Thus Juliet’s ‘enlightening’ awakening to the prospect of marriage remains concealed, as not yet coloured to the emotions of courtship. The muted light is perfectly befitting of the her measured speech; ‘I look to like, if looking liking move. Allen Denson calls the Mediterranean sun ‘saturating.’ Whilst bright light spreads fairly evenly throughout the film, this makes the change in the final scene more poignant. The grey sky creates a white parlour in the faces of the mourners, in sharp contrast to the brightly lit early scenes, as if the lovers death has drained the colour from the world.
The secretive lighting in Zeffirelli’s scene less effectively characterizes Romeo and Juliet as careless than the romantic lighting in Luhrmann’s version. When Romeo delivers his “But soft, what light through yonder window breaks” (II.ii.2) monologue in Zeffirelli’s version, he cannot yet see Juliet and is in a dark, wooded area. Once he sees her, he stays back so she cannot see him and watches her from afar, staying hidden despite his initial impulse to reveal himself once she begins speaking. The secretive nature of the darkness allows him to eventually reveal himself, but the two rely on this darkness as a disguise from any onlookers. Near the end of the scene, the sun has risen and Romeo and Juliet have to separate.
Romeo is waiting below Juliet’s balcony hoping to see her. When she appears at the window he says, “But soft! What light through the yonder window breaks? / It is the east, and Juliet is the sun”(II.ii.1-2).
In life, people want to have that someone they can call the “sun to the their moon,” or the “night to their day,” wishing for an undying love. William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet deals with the recurring visual motif of light and dark, that is used to represent and foreshadow their love. Both of the lovers compare one another to the day and night, which highlights the intensity of their relationship, but also expresses the downfalls and unforeseen complications to come. For Romeo, Juliet is his sun. His light.
Night time to the town is known for violence, crime, evil, and high chance of death. In the book by William Shakespeare, Romeo had feelings for a another woman named Rosaline. Which in the book he compares her to things that are involved with light, to where when he meets Juliet he compares her to the features of light hours. “It is the East and Juliet is the sun” (2.2.4). Romeo compares her to the East sun where the sun is usually where the sun is the most vibrant and beautiful.
Romeo What’s that light over there? Juliet enters on the balcony.
“Dawn” is a metaphor especially used in literature for a moment of awareness of the reality surrounding a character. Also known as an epiphany, when the moment of awareness of reality becomes evident, one may crave to return to the “night”, or their ideal state. The scene opens with Juliet begging Romeo to remain in her presence just a bit longer, “Wilt thou be gone? It is not yet near day: It was the nightingale, and not the lark,” (Romeo And Juliet.
He also describes some of the changes the characters undergo by using a change of light. For example, when Romeo at the beginning of the balcony scene steps into the light of the balcony, he has left his immature love for Rosaline behind him. He has always compared Rosaline with the moon, but now his love for Juliet is outshining it. Therefore, he describes Juliet as the sun. A more drastic change in the characters is when Romeo and Juliet die.
This is one of the best examples of the use of light and dark imagery, as Shakespeare creates a visual picture to compare Juliet’s beauty to the light of the sun, but it also symbolizes the lover’s plight to remain together. Though they love each other so deeply, Juliet is the sun while Romeo is the moon; their fate enables them to be together briefly just as the celestial objects are only to meet at dawn and dusk successfully portraying their love. Romeo continues the inference of Juliet’s eyes to that of the light and beauty of the brightest of stars, when he states, " Two of the fairest stars in all the heaven, Having some business, do entreat her eyes
