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IBianchin - Act I Scene V
by IBianchin - (2013-10-29)
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The first thing is that Romeo focuses his attention to a lady. This girl belongs to an aristocratic family. The run-on-line emphasizes the question that asks Romeo to the servo. Romeo is impressed by the girl, the note on the distance and Juliet seems to offer him her hand. Romeo gives voice to a real passionate consideration: is so impressed by her beauty that uses alliteration "teach the torches" "burn bright" to connote Juliet like a goddess. Romeo personifies the night because it will be assigned a body part "cheek of night" also with the metaphor "like a rich jewel" by the even more meaning. Romeo is blinded by the beauty of Juliet: Juliet compares it to a white dove that stands in the midst of crows. In addition, the hand that at the beginning he sees from a distance now is a consequence of love. Finally Romeo uses words of the semantic field of view as "watch", "sight", "saw" to highlight the beauty.

 

THE BALL
Romeo uses a language of the semantic field of religion: it uses words such as "profane" "shrine" "piligrims" "holy" Juliet to ask permission for a kiss. Even Juliet is expressed with this language, she uses words like "piligrim" "saints," "holy." The two lovers discuss on the lips and hands: Juliet says that the holy palmers and do not use their lips to kiss but to pray. This underlines the modesty of the girl. At the end of the discourse between his lips and hands, with references to the saints in Church activities and the two kiss. Finally we pass from the kiss as a prayer to kiss as sin, stressed dell'allitterazione "that they have Took," and also to take away the sin Romeo to Juliet and then get back a kiss uses the alliteration of the "s" sound in "sin from thy lips? O trespass sweetly urged".