Summary

The Scene two start with the image of Juliet, who is talking to herself. But under her balcony, in the shadows there is Romeo.  In her soliloquy she reveals her love for Romeo, her despairs over the feud between the two families (the Montagues and Capulets). Romeo keeps his mouth shut and listen but finally, he can’t resist and steps from the darkness. Juliet is embarrassed until she realizes that it’s Romeo hiding in the bushes. After the two exchange some words the Nurse calls Juliet, but then she return. They want to get married and Juliet promises to send a messenger the next day so that Romeo can tell her what wedding arrangements he has made. This scene end with Romeo, who allows to seek the advice of Friar Laurence

Analysis

Romeo and Juliet is a tragedy written in poetry by William Shakespeare. This poem starts with a prologue, which tells the general outline of the story foreshadowing future events. The prologue is followed by the rest of the play, which is in five acts. The part of the text we have to analyse is in Act 2 Scene 2.

This is a very important part where Romeo and Juliet reveal their love to each other and they plan to marry. Shakespeare uses different figure of speech to valorise how Romeo sees Juliet and what means for him. For example as Romeo stands in the shadows, he looks to the balcony and compared Juliet to the sun. When he describe Juliet he has left behind his melodramatic woes and moved toward a more genuine, mature understanding of love.

The narrator describe the natural quality of their love juxtaposing opposite scene and with the use of religious imagery emphasizes the purity of Romeo and Juliet’s love but understanding love is constituted in the physical aspects. In this scene Romeo has expressed his emotions in a traditional, colloquial style.

Juliet shows the beginnings of increasing self-possession and confidence. Juliet introduces the idea of marriage to Romeo: she encourages him to be genuine and to invest himself in a less traditional, more spiritual concept of love

The scene takes place at night-time, illustrating the way Romeo and Juliet's love exists in a world quite distinct from the violence of the feud. This may be also an illusion to the forbidden nature of their relationship. As night ends and dawn breaks, the two are forced to part to avoid being discovered by the Capulet kinsmen. Romeo and Juliet fear that they might be exposed, thereby forcing their permanent separation.

The end of this scene is full of dramatic irony and foreshadows the final scene of the play when Juliet follow Romeo to the death. The irruption of the Nurse adds to the atmosphere of intense urgency as the lovers frantically say good-bye. The heightened anticipation of their forthcoming marriage continues to build further tension and increase the pace of the play.