Act 1 Scene 1
* Benvolio(pg35):
* ‘fiery Tybalt” “breathed defiance” marked distinction between the Ms & Cs; do we pity Tybalt at his death in Act3 Scene 1?
* Romeo(pg37)the passionate and infatuated lover:
* ‘With tears augmenting the fresh morning’s dew,
Adding to clouds more clouds with his deep sighs”
* Even his father is aware that he has been crying (compared to Benvolio who states his own moodiness in a factual & objective manner)
* Pg38“Away from light steals home my heavy son”;
“Shuts up his windows, locks fair daylight out,
And makes himself an artificial night.”
* Romeo’s dark mood, pretentious and overly emotional(Shakespeare makes us question if Romeo is truly in love with Rosaline/Juliet or in love with the idea of [being in]love
* Light imagery:
* Happiness
* Hope
* Joy
* Romeo is locking daylight out does not want to find hope anymore(serious depression!?!?!?)
* Pg38“Shuts up his windows, locks fair daylight out,
And makes himself an artificial night.”;
“to himself so secret and so close”
* Romeo shuts himself away from the worl, wallowing in self-pity despite not having been rejected; only passionate about love in a pretentious manner
* Romeo(pg39)
* He is determined to make known his pitiful state; speaks in a cryptic manner so as to emphasize the sad state of being in love shows his lack of maturity
* Pg40”Where shall we dine?”
* Romeo is easily distracted & probably not serious about the love that he is supposedly heartbroken over
* Pg40 “Feather of lead, bright smoke, cold fire, sick health,
Still-waking sleep, that is not what it is”
* Oxymorons
* Romeo lists the contrariness of love; Shakespeare’s that one cannot exist without the other(love/hate, light/dark etc.)
* Another reference to the senseless feud & enmity between the M&C, as well as the inevitability of R&J’s tragic love
* Pg43”I have lost...