Rithvik Asani
Mrs. Miller
English 1, Period 1
28 February 2017
Act II
In Act 2 Scene 2, Juliet wants to slow things in the relationship between her and Romeo and wants to take things at a steady and unhurried pace, displaying her more reasonable nature, as seen through the use of a simile. In this part of the scene, Juliet starts to show her more rational character and nature, as Romeo starts to swear and makes many ignorant promises to always love and adore Juliet, because he is unaware of the fact that he has really only known her for one day, through saying how his words are “Too like lightning, which doth cease to be/Ere one can say ‘It lightens’” (2.2.119-120). The simile is being developed by the quote here by comparing how fast and quickly …show more content…
After the “death” of Juliet, Capulet enters her room to bring Juliet out, since the groom has arrived, but after seeing that she has died, he is devastated by her death and the fact that it was a waste to have gone through such a great amount of effort to find Juliet a husband who was fit enough to take care of Juliet and his wealth and says, “Death is my son-in-law. Death is my heir./My daughter he hath wedded. I will die,/And leave him all. Life, living, all is Death’s” (4.4.38-40). The personification is being developed by the quote here by personifying death as a real person and saying that it is the son-in-law of Capulet after he sees that his daughter has been taken away by death, thus saying that Juliet is “married to death”. The personification of death is created to emphasize the effect of Juliet’s death and marriage on Capulet; by representing death as a real person, the audience/reader can see that Capulet considers death as more than just a gesture shown by fate, instead he considers it as an evil entity who has destroyed his only daughter, and a cruel thing he has to give away his possessions and wealth to, since death has taken away his daughter’s life, he has no earthly heir to pass on his inheritance to. Through Capulet’s emotional breakdown and the amount of distraught he is in, it is displayed that parental love is eternal under any
Mrs. Miller
English 1, Period 1
28 February 2017
Act II
In Act 2 Scene 2, Juliet wants to slow things in the relationship between her and Romeo and wants to take things at a steady and unhurried pace, displaying her more reasonable nature, as seen through the use of a simile. In this part of the scene, Juliet starts to show her more rational character and nature, as Romeo starts to swear and makes many ignorant promises to always love and adore Juliet, because he is unaware of the fact that he has really only known her for one day, through saying how his words are “Too like lightning, which doth cease to be/Ere one can say ‘It lightens’” (2.2.119-120). The simile is being developed by the quote here by comparing how fast and quickly …show more content…
After the “death” of Juliet, Capulet enters her room to bring Juliet out, since the groom has arrived, but after seeing that she has died, he is devastated by her death and the fact that it was a waste to have gone through such a great amount of effort to find Juliet a husband who was fit enough to take care of Juliet and his wealth and says, “Death is my son-in-law. Death is my heir./My daughter he hath wedded. I will die,/And leave him all. Life, living, all is Death’s” (4.4.38-40). The personification is being developed by the quote here by personifying death as a real person and saying that it is the son-in-law of Capulet after he sees that his daughter has been taken away by death, thus saying that Juliet is “married to death”. The personification of death is created to emphasize the effect of Juliet’s death and marriage on Capulet; by representing death as a real person, the audience/reader can see that Capulet considers death as more than just a gesture shown by fate, instead he considers it as an evil entity who has destroyed his only daughter, and a cruel thing he has to give away his possessions and wealth to, since death has taken away his daughter’s life, he has no earthly heir to pass on his inheritance to. Through Capulet’s emotional breakdown and the amount of distraught he is in, it is displayed that parental love is eternal under any