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ACT II. SCENE II. Capulet's orchard.
Enter ROMEO
He jests at scars that never felt a wound.
JULIET appears above at a window
But, soft! what light through yonder window breaks?
It is the east, and Juliet is the sun.
Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon,
Who is already sick and pale with grief,
That thou her maid art far more fair than she:
Be not her maid, since she is envious;
Her vestal livery is but sick and green
And none but fools do wear it; cast it off.
It is my lady, O, it is my love!
O, that she knew she were!
She speaks yet she says nothing: what of that?
Her eye discourses; I will answer it.
I am too bold, 'tis not to me she speaks:
Two of the fairest stars in all the heaven,
Having some business, do entreat her eyes
To twinkle in their spheres till they return.
What if her eyes were there, they in her head?
The brightness of her cheek would shame those stars,
As daylight doth a lamp; her eyes in heaven
Would through the airy region stream so bright
That birds would sing and think it were not night.
See, how she leans her cheek upon her hand!
O, that I were a glove upon that hand,
That I might touch that cheek!
She speaks:
O, speak again, bright angel! for thou art
As glorious to this night, being o'er my head
As is a winged messenger of heaven
Unto the white-upturned wondering eyes
Of mortals that fall back to gaze on him
When he bestrides the lazy-pacing clouds
And sails upon the bosom of the air.
O Romeo, Romeo! wherefore art thou Romeo?
Deny thy father and refuse thy name;
Or, if thou wilt not, be but sworn my love,
And I'll no longer be a Capulet.
[Aside] Shall I hear more, or shall I speak at this?
'Tis but thy name that is my enemy;
Thou art thyself, though not a Montague.
What's Montague? it is nor hand, nor foot,
Nor arm, nor face, nor any other part
Belonging to a man. O, be some other name!
What's in a name? that which we call a rose
By any other name would smell as sweet;
So Romeo would, were he not Romeo call'd,
Retain that dear perfection which he owes
Without that title. Romeo, doff thy name,
And for that name which is no part of thee
Take all myself.
I take thee at thy word:
Call me but love, and I'll be new baptized;
Henceforth I never will be Romeo.
What man art thou that thus bescreen'd in night
So stumblest on my counsel?
By a name
I know not how to tell thee who I am:
My name, dear saint, is hateful to myself,
Because it is an enemy to thee;
Had I it written, I would tear the word.
My ears have not yet drunk a hundred words
Of that tongue's utterance, yet I know the sound:
Art thou not Romeo and a Montague?
Neither, fair saint, if either thee dislike.
ANALYSIS
This text is contained in the work of William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet. This novel tells the story of two families in conflict with each other: the Montagues and the Capulets and the history of 'love between two guys of these families: Romeo and Juliet.
Reading the title you can’t understand much, only that the actions will take place in the properties of the Capulets, precisely in the orchard.
Looking at the text, it is observed that it is organized in a dialogue. The characters who speak are two: Romeo and Juliet (the protagonists of the work).
In the moonlight, Romeo, hidden under the balcony of the girl, he feels talking to herself and discovers that she returns his love. The scene comes alive with the passionate monologue of Romeo and Juliet's love confession unexpected, hesitating between the youthful passion and doubt to face with a young man of the Montagues an impossible story. Being families Montagues and Capulets fairs enemy, Juliet reflects on the value of names, one is just a blank label that does not change the substance of things and persons, the rose would always be so fragrant even if he had another name, and so Romeo would always be perfect, even without that name that separates them. The girl is so ready to abandon its name and hopes that Romeo deny his father. them young then comes out of the closet and reveals his feelings with the words: "Call me but Love." The two young men exchange their vow of love, defined by Juliet like a flash that illuminates for a moment the darkness of the night and as a beautiful flower: the two images sum up the sense of transience of this brief meeting, over which looms the death of the two star-crossed lovers.
The narrator uses the rhetorical figure of 'hyperbole and metaphor. The rich language of rhetorical figures approaching the dramatic text to the opera. Images fanciful, hyperbolic statements and metaphors express the tender passion of the two lovers.