Therefore, they would have readily accepted that Fate had a role in the outcome of the play. The term ‘star-crossed lovers’ indicates that Romeo and Juliet are destined to meet and fall in love with one another, and that Fate means for them to die together. From this small phrase, the audience gets a sense of unease and foreboding right from the beginning. This suggestion of Fate is repeated throughout the play. Before Romeo ever meets Juliet, he says: ‘…my mind misgives Some consequence, yet hanging in the stars, Shall bitterly begin his fearful date With this night’s revels and expire the term Of a despised life, closed in my breast, By some vile forfeit of untimely death.’ (I.4.106-11) As
He shuts up his window and makes himself an artificial night. He is his own affections councillor and so secret and close that his friends and family cannot get near. He is in a world of his own and is shutting the outside world out as a result of his love. The audience asses his state of mind as infatuated or you could say a typical love stricken teenager. Romeo uses many contradiction of love, pairs such as feather and lead.
Before he meets Juliet we can see he is infatuated with a girl called Rosaline and this obsession makes him very unhappy. We are told by his father, Lord Montague that Romeo. “private in his chamber pens himself, Shuts up his windows, locks fair daylight out, And makes himself an artificial night:” (Act 1, Scene 1, LL 132-135) This tells us how depressed Romeo is that his love “hath sworn that she will still live chaste” (Act 1, Scene 1, L 211). However, later on in the play we can see how he is in love with Juliet in a very different way. He is not as obsessed with Juliet as he was with Rosaline but is still as caring for her.
The Immaturity of Romeo and Juliet Romeo and Juliet is a timeless tale of lovers whose misfortune and immaturity was a cause of their own destruction. The characters individually show immaturity and together demonstrate how ignorance of the world affects more than just their own lives. Romeo and Juliet, as expressed in the succeeding examples, fall in love quickly as a result of their naivety. Juliet is shown to be immature in an opening scene where her father tells the bride-seeking Paris his daughter is not old and grown-up enough to marry. It is also shown during the balcony scene when she agrees to marry Romeo after knowing him only a day and she is not even sure herself that Romeo wants to marry her.
‘Good Capulet, which name I tender as dearly as my own.’ The audience know the reason why Romeo won’t fight Tybalt, which is because Romeo and Juliet are now married. ‘The reason that I have to love thee.’ The audience know that Romeo must love Tybalt because they are now related. The other characters did not know about the wedding and are confused by what Romeo is saying. The dramatic irony in this scene makes it such an intense scene to watch. It is also a significant scene because it leads to Mercutio fighting Tybalt and Mercutios death.
It is a direct reference to destiny and a predetermined fate. The characters in the play are aware that this is the will of Fate. Romeo himself has a premonition about consequences that “shall bitterly begin his fearful date with this night’s revels” (this is on the night of the Capulet’s party). When Romeo finds out that Juliet is dead he says, “Then I defy you stars”. This relates to the concept of a predetermined destiny as he acknowledges the fact that fate had something to do with his destiny, but by him trying to defy fate he only fulfils it.
That is, except for the star crossed lovers, Romeo Montague, and Juliet Capulet. This theme of hate in this play written by Shakespeare, encourages us to think about how others hate can come between your own love. Romeo and Juliet took their lives as they could not live without each other. This love that has come to a tragic end has brought the two feuding families to peace. They see that their own hate for one another has ended with the death of the ones they love most, and that they cannot let this continue.
They seem to live in a twilight world where light does not penetrate. In the early part of the play, as the couple appear to be successful in their ambitions, night predominates as evil struggles with good. The climax is reached when we see Lady Macbeth sleepwalking, a candle constantly by her side. She is mentally disturbed, cut off from humanity, obsessed with the evil the two committed. In the same way, Macbeth also uses imagery related to light and darkness as the play nears its end and the re-establishment of good becomes inevitable.
Some of the imagery that truly appeals to the reader’s senses are the references to the stars, light and dark, and heaven and hell. In this play the stars represent the vast unknown and the heavens. When Romeo hears of Juliet’s passing he says, “Is it even so? then I defy you, stars!” (Act V, Scene 1, Line 24). Romeo is saying that he cannot believe in a God if they could take his beautiful wife from him.
Darkness is used to illustrate the unnatural character of Macbeth's crime in killing the king (which was considered at that time to be a crime against God and nature) when Ross remarks that although it should be day, it is still as dark as night (ii.iv.6-10). Night is also used as a metaphor for Macbeth's reign itself, and its impending end when Malcolm comments that “The night is long which never finds the day.” (iv.iii.243) Finally, Lady Macbeth's sleepwalking, turning her nights into days, and her insistence that she always have a light by her