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Act 2 (Scene 2: Balcony scene (Juliet has to exit ("this bud of love,…

- - - - imagery
        
        Alluding Cupid, Romeo has been marked by the arrow of Cupid (the wound of being in love) that no one can understand the pain that he is going through
  - - - light/dark image
        
        Juliet is the sun that lights up the night.
    - - alluding Queen Elizabeth (virgin queen) who is the moon (weak and vulnerable). Problem to the country as she doesn't have a heir.
      - kill the moon = to lose her virginity?
  - - - rose = symbol of romance, love, pain, danger, passion
    - - Why does it matter? What is so significant about a name?
        
        implies that Juliet doesn't hate the Montagues
        
        the name is not significant and relevant to ehr
    - - to escape from the social world in order to love freely
  - - - Romeo's passion for Juliet is so great that is almost violent, makes him think nothing of death
        
        foreshadows their fate
    - - Romeo is willing to abandon his identity for Juleit
      - he calls Juliet 'dear saint' = views Juliet as saintly, perfection, celestial, divine
    - - imagery
        
        stone wall = wall between the Capulets & Montagues (the obstacles they have to face, the society)
        
        his love for Juliet is so passionate that is able to break the wall
        
        stony limits = death
        
        foreshadows (prologue) that the death of R&J will cut the end of the families' feud
  - - - "love be honorable*
      - "if thou dost love, pronounce it faithfully"
    - - "I have no joy of this contract tonight. / It is too rash, too unadvised, too sudden"
        
        repetition of 'too'
        
        Juliet has mixed feelings about marrying Romeo (happy but worried, rational thoughts)
        
        suggests shock
        
        The audience thinks that she is playing with our senses as she end up giving it in to Romeo
        
        fate - neither the audience nor the characters can control it
    - - Juliet rejects completely that Romeo swears by the moon
        
        subtle rejection to the Queen
      - imagery
        
        the moon isn't visible at all time, inconsistant, bends and changes shapes
    - - may = modal verb, suggestion, lacks a sense of certainty
      - Juliet hopes their love will grow in the future
      - beauteous flower = can mean baby
        
        Juliet's sexual innuendo (opposing with her virginity)
        
        deflower = losing virginity
    - - bounty = quantity, a lot of something
      - suggests that their love is dangerous as it ocntains unknown things (boundless)
      - the sea = assentual to human's survival but is also dangerous
- - - - His thoughts on the importance of moderation prove fateful, given the destruction that R&J's passion causes.
- - - - contrast between R's passion and F's moderation
  - - - her love is too large to describe
- - - - "blind bow-boy's"
        
        reference to Cupid
    - - reference to women who are associated with tragedy and ended their lives
        
        "Laura"
        
        a subject of Petrach's (Italian poet) love lyrics. He wrote more than 300 sonnets to her (over a period of 200 years), despite that it was only an one-sided love. His love became a lifelong obsession, even after his death in 1348.
        
        "Dido"
        
        Queen of Cartage. When her lover Aeneas deserted her, she killed herself
        
        "Cleopatra"
        
        Queen of Egypt. Loved by both Julius Caesar and Mark Antony. Committed suicide with Antony but loves Caesar.
        
        "Helen"
        
        Helen of Troy. She was stolen by the Trojan Paris. Her abduction led to the siege and destruction of Troy.
        
        Her beauty was famous
        
        Juliet is also popular with her beauty.
        
        suggests how love can cause such a harm to anyone.
        
        "Hero"
        
        Every night her lover swam across the river to meet her, but he drowned himself.
  - - - "Prince of Cats" (to R)
        
        suggesting that R follows honor to a ridiculous degree
        
        his mockery shows similarities between Tybalt & Romeo. While R loves love, Tybalt loves honor. Mercutio thinks they are both fools.
      - he has used a lot of bawdy languages and puns
        
        "roe", "pump", "hit it", "bosom","goose"
        
        highlights how Mercutio only views love as an excuse and mask for human to cover their erotic lust
        
        he compares Nurse to prostitute
        
        "old hare hoar"
        
        suggesting that she is an old whore/prostitute
        
        an example of casual verbal abuse of lower-classes by nobles
- - - - to build up the suspense by delaying it
      - add to comic senses for humor
      - she keeps playing with J by not answering her
        
        emphasises on their closeness
        
        she is a confidant of Juliet, was sent an important task at 1st place
  - - - As a woman, J must wait at home while R (a man) acts.