Romeo and Juliet is most likely the most famous of William Shakespeare's plays. This play tells the story of Romeo a Montague and Juliet a Capulet (from feuding families), who meet and fall in love. Their forbidden love draws them closer together, but fate is not on their side and eventually they decide to kill themselves instead of living without one another. Friar Laurence is Romeo's mentor and confidante, but he's not always looking out for the best interests of young Romeo. In the soliloquy Friar Lawrence is introduced by talking about plants and their inner qualities. This speech also offers the audience a sense of the cryptic themes that are constantly present within the play. In this passage literary devices such as Foreshadowing, and Contrasts help readers understand that
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In this scene you can see how he uses contrasts to help illustrate the dramatic contrasts, that you see in the entire play. His descriptions such as, “eastern clouds with streaks of light (2); and flecked darkness like a drunkard reels (3)” and “baleful weeds and precious-juiced flowers” (8) illustrates that Friar Lawrence does help to set-up the contrasts we as readers see throughout the play. This hints (Foreshadows) towards the deaths of Romeo and Juliet, that will soon occur. The contrasts between ‘tomb’ and ‘womb’ in the line “the earth that’s nature’s mother is her tomb; what is her burying grave, that is her womb” (9-11), also show the readers that the fate of Romeo and Juliet is foretold and that despite the play resulting in their deaths, their families will begin a new ‘life’ as friends or allies. Also Friar Lawrence hints that his rome in the lives of Romeo and Juliet with, “Full soon the canker death eats up that plant” (30),demonstrates the feud between the families has already been foretold (‘the canker’) will eat up the life of the ‘plant’, which represents the growing love between Romeo and
In this scene you can see how he uses contrasts to help illustrate the dramatic contrasts, that you see in the entire play. His descriptions such as, “eastern clouds with streaks of light (2); and flecked darkness like a drunkard reels (3)” and “baleful weeds and precious-juiced flowers” (8) illustrates that Friar Lawrence does help to set-up the contrasts we as readers see throughout the play. This hints (Foreshadows) towards the deaths of Romeo and Juliet, that will soon occur. The contrasts between ‘tomb’ and ‘womb’ in the line “the earth that’s nature’s mother is her tomb; what is her burying grave, that is her womb” (9-11), also show the readers that the fate of Romeo and Juliet is foretold and that despite the play resulting in their deaths, their families will begin a new ‘life’ as friends or allies. Also Friar Lawrence hints that his rome in the lives of Romeo and Juliet with, “Full soon the canker death eats up that plant” (30),demonstrates the feud between the families has already been foretold (‘the canker’) will eat up the life of the ‘plant’, which represents the growing love between Romeo and