Imagine you are laying on a meadow, with your eyes closed, the grass is humid underneath you, the sun is shining bright above you, you can feel it through your closed eyelids. It’s quite peaceful; you can hear the scurry of a squirrel in the distance, and the pecking of a woodpecker farther away. You can feel yourself breathe, and your heartbeat deep in your chest. You open your eyes and you see the bright blue sky with one cloud visible. You conclude that it looks like a bird, you can even hear the sound of the bird echoing through a forest, spreading its wings to fly, a symbol of freedom. Next to you a friend is lying looking up at the sky as well. You ask what he sees and he responds that he sees a tree. A mighty oak tree with a sturdy trunk
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Mercutio is an anti-romantic character who, regards that love is no more than an excuse to pursue sexual pleasure and makes a man weak and pathetic. When Romeo complains about the heartache of his unrequited love for Rosaline, Mercutio tells him to get over it already by punning bawdily: “If love be rough with you, be rough with love:/ Prick love for pricking, and you beat love down”(I, iv, 27-28). Mercutio advocates an adversarial concept of love that contrasts sharply with Romeo 's idealized notion of romantic union. Mercutio does not understand Romeo’s unique idea of love, and therefore mocks Romeo saying that love makes him weak and he should beat love down. Another example of how Shakespeare uses literary devices to portray Mercutio’s definition of love is when he tried to coax Romeo out of hiding by mocking him with sexual puns: “Now he will sit under a melder tree,/ And wish his mistress were that kind of fruit/ As maids call medlars when they laugh alone./ O Romeo, that she were- O that she were/ An open-arse or thou a poperin pear”(II, ii, 36-40). Maids mention the medlar, a small, brown-skinned, and round, fruit that has a cleft like an apricot and a deep cup-shaped depression at the stem end, only when they "laugh alone" because it is a sexual fruit. Also, it 's only edible when it 's half-rotten and starting to split open, Mercutio is saying that Romeo will sit under a medlar tree and …show more content…
This theme is portrayed in the exposition when Romeo is melancholy over his unrequited love for Rosaline, Benvolio tries to lighten up his mood by telling Romeo that there are other beauties in the world that will help Romeo forget about Rosaline. Romeo offended and dramatic replies, “Show me a mistress that is passing fair-/ What doth her beauty serve but as a note/ Where I may read who pass’d that passing fair?/ Farewell: thou canst not teach me to forget” (I, ii, 236-239). Romeo believes that love is physical this can be seen because Romeo loves Rosaline only for her physical features. He says that everyone other than Rosaline only serves as a reminder of Rosaline 's beauty, and none can compare to her. The fact that Romeo only talks about Rosaline’s beauty is proof that Romeo thinks love is physical. Furthermore, Romeo forsakes Rosaline the moment that he sees Juliet, by saying, “Did my heart love till now? forswear it, sight!/ For I ne’er saw true beauty till this night”(I, v, 52-53). The fact that Romeo forgot all about Rosaline when he saw Juliet, who according to Romeo is an example of true beauty. shows that Romeo cares only about physical features. Moreover, Romeo had never talked to Juliet before that night, that alone shows that he only loved her because of her beauty.Shakespeare uses Romeo’s idealized notion love to convey the ideology that love can be
Mercutio is an anti-romantic character who, regards that love is no more than an excuse to pursue sexual pleasure and makes a man weak and pathetic. When Romeo complains about the heartache of his unrequited love for Rosaline, Mercutio tells him to get over it already by punning bawdily: “If love be rough with you, be rough with love:/ Prick love for pricking, and you beat love down”(I, iv, 27-28). Mercutio advocates an adversarial concept of love that contrasts sharply with Romeo 's idealized notion of romantic union. Mercutio does not understand Romeo’s unique idea of love, and therefore mocks Romeo saying that love makes him weak and he should beat love down. Another example of how Shakespeare uses literary devices to portray Mercutio’s definition of love is when he tried to coax Romeo out of hiding by mocking him with sexual puns: “Now he will sit under a melder tree,/ And wish his mistress were that kind of fruit/ As maids call medlars when they laugh alone./ O Romeo, that she were- O that she were/ An open-arse or thou a poperin pear”(II, ii, 36-40). Maids mention the medlar, a small, brown-skinned, and round, fruit that has a cleft like an apricot and a deep cup-shaped depression at the stem end, only when they "laugh alone" because it is a sexual fruit. Also, it 's only edible when it 's half-rotten and starting to split open, Mercutio is saying that Romeo will sit under a medlar tree and …show more content…
This theme is portrayed in the exposition when Romeo is melancholy over his unrequited love for Rosaline, Benvolio tries to lighten up his mood by telling Romeo that there are other beauties in the world that will help Romeo forget about Rosaline. Romeo offended and dramatic replies, “Show me a mistress that is passing fair-/ What doth her beauty serve but as a note/ Where I may read who pass’d that passing fair?/ Farewell: thou canst not teach me to forget” (I, ii, 236-239). Romeo believes that love is physical this can be seen because Romeo loves Rosaline only for her physical features. He says that everyone other than Rosaline only serves as a reminder of Rosaline 's beauty, and none can compare to her. The fact that Romeo only talks about Rosaline’s beauty is proof that Romeo thinks love is physical. Furthermore, Romeo forsakes Rosaline the moment that he sees Juliet, by saying, “Did my heart love till now? forswear it, sight!/ For I ne’er saw true beauty till this night”(I, v, 52-53). The fact that Romeo forgot all about Rosaline when he saw Juliet, who according to Romeo is an example of true beauty. shows that Romeo cares only about physical features. Moreover, Romeo had never talked to Juliet before that night, that alone shows that he only loved her because of her beauty.Shakespeare uses Romeo’s idealized notion love to convey the ideology that love can be