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- Light now is the force that reveals their love and works to separate them, while darkness hides their love and allows them to express their feeling for one another in more intimate ways.
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Nov 17, 2023 · The images of light and dark are one of the most constant visual motifs in William Shakespeare ’s Romeo and Juliet. Characters such as Benvolio, Juliet, and Romeo, who exhibit goodness, innocence, and love, are often seen giving off light, discussing light, or in the presence of light.
Light imagery is especially used to describe Juliet's beauty, showing us that Romeo sees her as more of a celestial being rather than a real person and that his love for her is otherworldly....
Juliet also equates Romeo and the bond that they share with radiant light. In a common play on words, she begs Romeo to "not impute this yielding to light love/Which the dark night hath so discovered" (2.2.105-6), again comparing their mutual feelings of love to bright and comforting light.
The sleeping potion he gives Juliet is concocted to cause the appearance of death, not death itself, but through circumstances beyond the Friar’s control, the potion does bring about a fatal result: Romeo’s suicide. As this example shows, human beings tend to cause death even without intending to. Similarly, Romeo suggests that society is ...
Juliet asks who is hiding in the darkness, and Romeo replies that he’s loath to use his own name, which is now “hateful” to him “because it is an enemy to [her.]”. Juliet asks if it is Romeo hiding in the garden, and he says that if she dislikes his name, he’ll be anything she wants.
In this simile, Romeo compares Juliet’s radiant beauty against the backdrop of night to an earring sparkling against the dark skin of an Ethiopian person. But soft, what light through yonder window breaks? It is the east, and Juliet is the sun. (2.2.2–3)
Juliet uses light and dark imagery to show Romeo' brightness. 'Whiter than new snow on a raven's back'. Romeo uses light imagery to show that she can illuminate the night to day. 'Juliet is the sun...kill the envious moon'. 'The brightness of her cheek would shame those stars'.
