Romeo and Juliet Symbols, Imagery, & Motifs
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The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare
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This play is about two star-crossed lovers from feuding families, who take their own lives. Through a series of unfortunate events, fate and chance turn against the lovers. Romeo, a Montague, and Juliet, a Capulet, marry in secret, but are soon separated. The two die tragically in one of the most famous examples of dramatic irony.
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Romeo and Juliet Symbolism, Imagery, & Motifs definition and examples
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- LIGHT VS. DARK IMAGERY
- Throughout the play light and dark imagery is repeated
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- DREAMS
- Dreams are seen as an attempt to escape from reality.
- Darkness helps to conceal the secret love of Romeo and Juliet.
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- Common connotations of darkness are evil or death, as in the final scene when Romeo and Juliet die in a dark tomb.
- In the play, the idea that dreams are only fantasies is most visible in Mercutio’s "Queen Mab" speech.
- Romeo, the dreamer, quickly falls hopelessly in love. Mercutio can’t help but create a satire around this idea.
- POISON
- Poison appears twice in the play; each time as a way to end a problem.
- Friar Lawrence says everything has its purpose and that things are only made evil by human hands. The man-made poison that will make Juliet appear dead is evil.
- Romeo visits an apothecary. He buys a lethal poison that ends his life.
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