How does Juliet describe her love for Romeo?
Here Juliet describes her feelings for Romeo. Like Romeo, Juliet experiences love as a kind of freedom: her love is “boundless” and “infinite.” Her experience of love is more openly erotic than Romeo’s: her imagery has sexual undertones.
What similes does Romeo use to convey Juliet beauty and to what effect?
Romeo in his speech uses two similes to describe the beauty of Juliet. First simile compares her beauty to a rich jewel worn by an Ethiopian. The comparison here is so effective that the jewel shines brighter against the dark skin background. Such a beauty is very expensive and rare to be seen on earth.
What images does Romeo use to convey Juliet’s beauty?
One of the ways he describes her beauty is with a simile. When Romeo first sees Juliet at the ball, he compares her to a beautiful jewel. O, she doth teach the torches to burn bright! An Ehtiope is someone from Ethiopia, who therefore has dark skin.
What is Romeo’s premonition?
As he states in lines 107-112:… By some vile forfeit of untimely death. In other words, his mind is telling him that something, some “consequence yet hanging in the stars” will occur at the party that will ultimately bring about his death.
What is Romeo’s Dream 4?
Romeo refuses to engage in this banter, explaining that in a dream he learned that going to the feast was a bad idea. Mercutio responds with a long speech about Queen Mab of the fairies, who visits people’s dreams. Romeo steps in to stop the speech and calm Mercutio down.
What does Romeo feel as a result of his dream?
What does Romeo believe as a result of his dream? Romeo has mixed feelings because he wants to have fun but feels that his broken heart will not allow him, and he also has the feeling that something bad wil happen, so he asks God to help him. Romeo wants to see Rosaline, but has not been invited to the party.
What Balthasar tells Romeo?
He encounters Balthasar, who tells him that Romeo is in the tomb. Balthasar says that he fell asleep and dreamed that Romeo fought with and killed someone. Troubled, the friar enters the tomb, where he finds Paris’s body and then Romeo’s. As the friar takes in the bloody scene, Juliet wakes.
What is the warning the nurse gives to Romeo?
What warning does the nurse give Romeo? She warns him that he better be serious about what he said about marrying Juliet, or else she will do something bad to him.
Does Juliet hear what Romeo is saying?
Why is Romeo’s speech considered a soliloquy rather than a monologue? Romeo is presenting his feelings about Juliet and she does not hear. Although Juliet is on stage, she is not meant to hear Romeo’s declarations of love.
What does Romeo tell Juliet his name?
Romeo listens and when Juliet calls on him to “doff” his name, he steps from the darkness saying, “call me but love.” As Romeo stands in the shadows, he looks to the balcony and compares Juliet to the sun. He then asks the sun to rise and kill the envious moon.