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   What does Romeo & Juliet symbolize?

   • Romeo and Juliet complicates traditional notions of light versus dark and day versus night. Light is typically a symbol of openness, purity, hope, and good fortune, while dark often represents confusion, obscurity, and doom. Shakespeare… In Romeo and Juliet, potions represent emotional escape.

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   What do light and dark symbolize in Romeo & Juliet?

   • William Shakespeare Romeo and Juliet subverts traditional symbols of light and dark. Generally, light represents goodness and hope, while dark signifies confusion and danger. Shakespeare upends these common associations, however, as day and bright lights are portrayed as negative in the play.

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   What does Juliet mean in Romeo & Juliet?

   • Juliet is the light that frees him from the darkness of his perpetual melancholia. In the famous balcony scene Romeo associates Juliet with sunlight, "It is the east and Juliet is the sun!"

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   What are the motifs of Romeo & Juliet?

   • One of the central motifs of the play is the interplay between light and darkness. Romeo and Juliet are consistently comparing one another to different forms of light, including the sun, the stars, and the moon, emphasizing the sense of "illumination" they get from each other.

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   How does Juliet equate Romeo with light?

   • Juliet also equates Romeo and the bond that they share with radiant light. In a common play on words, she begs Romeo to "not impute this yielding to light love/Which the dark night hath so discovered" (2.2.105-6), again comparing their mutual feelings of love to bright and comforting light.

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   What does night symbolize in Romeo & Juliet?

   • Night is a symbol of protection, while heat and sunlight suggest anger and conflict. Night is a key symbol in the play because it protects the characters. When Romeo is in Juliet’s garden he tells her 'I have night’s cloak to hide me from their sight'. Night makes him feel safe.

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   Romeo and Juliet. Romeo Character Analysis. The name Romeo, in popular culture, has become nearly synonymous with “lover.”. Romeo, in Romeo and Juliet, does indeed experience a love of such purity and passion that he kills himself when he believes that the object of his love, Juliet, has died.

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   Romeo and Juliet complicates traditional notions of light versus dark and day versus night. Light is typically a symbol of openness, purity, hope, and good fortune, while dark often represents confusion, obscurity, and doom.

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   When Romeo is in Juliet’s garden he tells her 'I have night’s cloak to hide me from their sight'. Night makes him feel safe. We also see Romeo sneaking into Juliet’s room at night time to consummate their marriage.

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   Romeo and Juliet subverts traditional symbols of light and dark. Generally, light represents goodness and hope, while dark signifies confusion and danger. Shakespeare upends these common associations, however, as day and bright lights are portrayed as negative in the play.

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   When Romeo initially sees Juliet, he compares her immediately to the brilliant light of the torches and tapers that illuminate Capulet's great hall: "O, she doth teach the torches to burn bright!" (1.4.46). Juliet is the light that frees him from the darkness of his perpetual melancholia.

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   Romeo and Juliet are consistently comparing one another to different forms of light, including the sun, the stars, and the moon, emphasizing the sense of "illumination" they get from each other.

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   Juliet is, throughout the play, torn between her perceived duty to her family and her love for Romeo. Her burgeoning sexuality and desire for new experiences outside of the insular world of her family’s obsession with respectability and gentility drive her into Romeo’s arms, and lead her to take serious emotional and physical risks in ...