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IBianchin - Balcony Scene
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Up to 4ALS - W. Shakespeare's The language of Love
SECOND ACT BALCONY SCENE
At the beginning of the second act Romeo is thinking about the love to Juliet and suddenly he sees a light. With a metaphor Romeo connotes his lover to the sun, and Romeo using a semantically words of the sun (east, sun, arise, fair) creates in Juliet a lady who could guide his life. This image is in contrast with an absence of life due to the semantically choice of moon (sick, pale, grief). This contraposition is made by two antithetic words: sun and moon; these words are also personified, especially the moon because is the exactly opposite of Juliet.Romeo undergone later starts venerating it as a goddess, Juliet's vision sends in confusion Romeo, in fact according to him she talks to him, but then it contradicts itself saying that his eye speaks. The eye is personified, in fact he does not speak, but it connotes the love like a person.
Then the eyes are connoted like stars: the light which first era in Juliet's whole figure now is reduced to his eyes. Besides Romeo blinded by the love wonders if the eyes are in the whole universe and the stars in Juliet's forehead: the image of the eyes as stars now is overturned by them. Juliet's visual one moves on his face that is also shiny he. They do the image of Juliet so that it seems an angel.
At last with the repetition of some words as cheek and hand, put to chiasmus, they underline the love felt by Romeo by Juliet. After Romeo feels it to speak, the idea that the reader becomes of Juliet is confirmed.
Juliet expresses his love for Romeo with the repetition of the name of the beloved, and with a series of exaggerations in the speech. Archaic words are also present as “thy, ‘tis, thou” that as well as other words contained the letter “t“ and the anaphora “nor“ they confer the idea of hard all that it is the love that she tries.
Also Romeo to highlight all that can be difficult the love that it tries for Juliet uses the alliteration of the sound "t" and "d".
Then Juliet with the reference to the night counters his image described by Romeo to the image of Romeo.
Romeo arrives at the point of hating the own name and expropriates it of the own meaning. Besides it connotes Juliet as the holy one.
Juliet personifies his earring, the alliteration uses the dental sound "t" and "d" to highlight the manners in which the love makes itself heard.
At last Romeo retakes the initial image of Juliet with the terms “fair saint”; and besides with two opposing terms “neither“ and “either“ it scorns his name.