“Come night, come, Romeo, come, thou day in night.”
Juliet expresses her feelings for Romeo in a romantic, passionate fashion. The above quote represents how she just cannot stop thinking about Romeo day and night and is constantly longing for him; almost as if she is rendered helpless without him. During the balcony scene Romeo compares Juliet to the stars:
“It is the east and Juliet is the son. Two of the fairest stars in all the heaven.”
Romeo has so much love for Juliet that he thinks she is so bright she would make the stars go dim. Shakespeare uses imagery to show Romeo and Juliet’s love. Juliet also compares her love for Romeo through nature. This shows how greatly she thinks of Romeo as nature is what controls the world, and is significant of how her life and soul is based around Romeo:
“My bounty is as boundless as the sea. My love as deep.” “This bud of love, by summer’s ripening breath I may prove a beauteous flower when next we meet…”
Juliet believes her and Romeo are getting closer and closer everyday and is overjoyed with excitement by this. This quote shows Juliet’s love has no boundaries and states it’s as free as the sea. This is the beginning of love and she thinks it will grow beautiful. Romeo and Juliet have stuck by each other.
Throughout the play Romeo and Juliet have been loyal to each other. When Romeo has been banished, he sees this as another obstacle which they would have to defeat. Romeo is banished from Verona as he killed a Capulet for his own family. Juliet is engaged to Paris, who is a family friend who truly cares for the Capulet family. Juliet is willing to marry Romeo because of her love for Romeo-naturally. Juliet gets no support from her mother or nurse about her decision and lord Capulet (her own father) threatens her.
“Hang thee, young baggage disobedient wretch!”
“And you be not, hang, beg, starve, die in the streets…”
This shows the immense pressure Juliet is under, having to deal with the pressures of her family’s hate for the Montague’s and still being able to be in love with Romeo. Despite her dilemma she attempts to please both sides, demonstrating the equal importance she places on them both.
The balcony scene is the scene which most people remember in the play simply because it is very romantic. This demonstrates how Shakespeare wants us to believe true and romantic love. Also because it is the first time he declares his love for her, and Romeo shows a lot of emotions. Juliet cries out to Romeo over the balcony.
“O Romeo, Romeo! Where fore art thou Romeo?”
“Deny thy father and refuse thy name /or it thou wilt not be, be bud sworn. My love and I’ll no longer be a Capulet.”
Romeo and Juliet have had to go through so many obstacles to save their relationship; they cherish the unique romantic bond they share. The obstacles involved Romeo being banished from Verona making it a lot harder for Romeo and Juliet to speak of their love and to see each other. Juliet had been engaged to Paris and had been forced to marry him by her parents. The biggest obstacle they have to overcome was the feud between the Montague and Capulet families. Their love has been made difficult because of their names. They are willing to sacrifice their own lives just so that they can be together. Despite all these apparent obstacles in the play their love never diminishes; it actually strengthens showing the true intense depth of their love. When Romeo has been banished he realises he will never be able to see his love again and therefore wants to kill himself.
“Good night, good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow!”
“That I shall say good night till it be morrow.”
Romeo and Juliet hate to part since there time together is so precious and pleasurable. They can’t wait to make their love official. They want to spend every second of the day together. So the only way is to do so in the afterlife. This shows that in the end of the play they do put their relationship before their own family because they both didn’t think about the emotional impact that would be the result of their death.
Juliet’s mother believed that real true love comes from the class you can uphold. It has nothing to do with emotions and feelings. She believes you can grow to love someone. Juliet’s mother knows this from her own experiences.
Romeo, at the beginning of the play was very much in love with Rosaline and was very sad that she was going to live a chaste life. Benvolio tried to cheer Romeo up but he was very upset and confused as he talks in oxymoron, examples of which are,
“O loving hate”, “serious vanity”, this shows Romeo’s confusion. This shows that Romeo and Juliet’s love was true, because he could get over Rosaline but not Juliet. It is made clear that Juliet would be the only woman he would die for.
Romeo and Juliet’s love is true love to such an extent they show selfishness towards their families by dying willingly, not considering how much more of a feud it would cause between the two families. They show their love to each other in various ways comparing each other to the great nature; displaying their pointlessness in living if they weren’t together, and furthermore never quitting on each other although their familial lives were in turmoil.