Wordplay: Though it is a tragedy, Romeo and Juliet contains an abundance of delightful puns. In the Shakespearean play, “Romeo and Juliet”, numerous similes have been used to emphasize the attributes of certain characters, the intensity of emotions and the horror of unavoidable natural phenomenon such as death.A few examples of similes from the play have been highlighted and discussed below: Similes in “Romeo and Juliet” Example #1 Example Of Hyperbole In Romeo And Juliet Act 1. A grave? God save the mark!--here on his manly breast: Pale, pale as ashes, all bedaub'd in blood. Show a fair presence and put off these frowns. That you shall rest but little. Come, civil night. But, wherefore, villain, didst thou kill my cousin? In faith, I will. "Oh, Romeo! The earth hath swallow'd all my hopes but she. With purple fountains issuing from your veins, On pain of torture, from those bloody hands. Romeo! This is not Romeo, he's some other where. Blind is his love and best befits the dark. Lady Capulet … Poison hath residence and medicine power: For this, being smelt, with that part cheers each part; Being tasted, slays all senses with the heart. can you love the gentleman? Therefore we'll have some half a dozen friends. Yon light is not day-light, I know it, I: Therefore stay yet; thou need'st not to be gone. But fettle your fine joints 'gainst Thursday next. Peace, I have done. Thou hast the strength of will to slay thyself. Were thinly scatter'd, to make up a show. That God had lent us but this only child; You are to blame, my lord, to rate her so. Three words, dear Romeo, and good night indeed. My name, dear saint, is hateful to myself, My ears have not yet drunk a hundred words. 'Zounds, a dog, a rat, a mouse, a, cat, to scratch a man to death! Nurse, where's my daughter? In Act I, Romeo communicated in a poetic tone to the other men. By their own beauties; or, if love be blind. Where's Romeo's man? His agile arm beats down their fatal points, And 'twixt them rushes; underneath whose arm, An envious thrust from Tybalt hit the life, And to 't they go like lightning, for, ere I. husband! After seeing her daughter Juliet dead and lying in a tomb, Lady Capulet maintains that her daughter’s death reminds her of her own impending old age and subsequent demise. Poison, I see, hath been his timeless end: O churl! Therefore farewell; I see thou know'st me not. Playwrights, poets, and novelists often include similes to describe the objects vividly thereby enabling the readers to understand the comparison between two different concepts, persons or things easily. as sweet repose and rest. That in gold clasps locks in the golden story; So shall you share all that he doth possess. Dry sorrow drinks our blood. Is now the two hours' traffic of our stage; The which if you with patient ears attend. But love from love, toward school with heavy looks. Is longer than the tale thou dost excuse. why, lady! Hold, take this letter; early in the morning. Romeo and Juliet: Act 3, Scene 2. why 'music with her silver. To catch my death with jaunting up and down! And see how he will take it at your hands. To-morrow night look that thou lie alone; Let not thy nurse lie with thee in thy chamber: And this distilled liquor drink thou off; When presently through all thy veins shall run. But, as you will not wed, I'll pardon you: Graze where you will you shall not house with me: Look to't, think on't, I do not use to jest. beat them down! We shall be much unfurnished for this time. as I discern. But one, poor one, one poor and loving child. Which, but their children's end, nought could remove. then have at thee, boy! Is death mis-term'd: calling death banishment. It implies that in Romeo’s view, Juliet lights up the night with her bright presence in a similar way that a celestial being animates the heavens with its unspeakable beauty. (Act 3, scene 3)Romeo: ‘Tis torture, and not mercy. Here are the beetle brows shall blush for me. all men call thee fickle: If thou art fickle, what dost thou with him. Ay, ay, a scratch, a scratch; marry, 'tis enough. See, where he comes: so please you, step aside; I'll know his grievance, or be much denied. On Lammas-eve at night shall she be fourteen; That shall she, marry; I remember it well. More light, you knaves; and turn the tables up. Yet nature's tears are reason's merriment. But, soft! To follow this fair corse unto her grave: The heavens do lour upon you for some ill; Move them no more by crossing their high will. O simple!" Take up those cords: poor ropes, you are beguiled. A dog of that house shall move me to stand: I will. Hast thou slain Tybalt? For it excels your first: or if it did not. Is Rosaline, whom thou didst love so dear, So soon forsaken? Some consequence yet hanging in the stars, With this night's revels and expire the term. wherefore art thou Romeo?" Give me that mattock and the wrenching iron. DRAMA AND TRAGEDY. Upon first sight of her, Romeo exclaims that she teaches "the torches to burn bright" (I.5.43). Start studying Romeo and Juliet Act 3. If thou dost love, pronounce it faithfully: Or if thou think'st I am too quickly won. Cheerly, boys; be. O, swear not by the moon, the inconstant moon. Will now deny to dance? How stands your disposition to be married? And make her airy tongue more hoarse than mine. A right good mark-man! Romeo, there dead, was husband to that Juliet; And she, there dead, that Romeo's faithful wife: I married them; and their stol'n marriage-day, Was Tybalt's dooms-day, whose untimely death. Banish'd the new-made bridegroom from the city. Apostrophe Examples. In 4.1 Juliet meets Paris and he thinks they are going to be married : we know that she is already married and For more on Romeo and Juliet, click here: The 10 Most Important Quotes in Romeo and Juliet. Good night, good night! For so he said he would: I hear him near. And bring thee cords made like a tackled stair; Farewell; be trusty, and I'll quit thy pains: Now God in heaven bless thee! And, being anger'd, puffs away from thence. I know thou wilt say 'Ay,'. 'When griping grief the heart doth wound, why 'silver sound'? The measure done, I'll watch her place of stand. Stands tiptoe on the misty mountain tops. And all those twenty could but kill one life. And hire those horses; I'll be with thee straight. Men's eyes were made to look, and let them gaze; I will not budge for no man's pleasure, I. Published by at 0. Time out o' mind the fairies' coachmakers. And lead you even to death: meantime forbear, Yet most suspected, as the time and place. That westward rooteth from the city's side, Towards him I made, but he was ware of me. For fair without the fair within to hide: That book in many's eyes doth share the glory. Montague! May stand in number, though in reckoning none, Through fair Verona; find those persons out. let's talk; it is not day. Example: Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet: "Gallop apace, you fiery-footed steeds/ Towards Phoebus' lodging!" Thou counterfeit'st a bark, a sea, a wind; For still thy eyes, which I may call the sea. I must be gone and live, or stay and die. Farewell, farewell! To the dead bodies: I will apprehend him. Came to this vault to die, and lie with Juliet. Doth grace for grace and love for love allow; Thy love did read by rote and could not spell. ', O, musicians, because my heart itself plays 'My. I have an interest in your hate's proceeding. 'By Jesu, a very good blade! can you not stay awhile? Hold, take these keys, and fetch more spices, nurse. Ah. I was also thinking maybe "gallop" in Mercutio's Queen Mab speech, Act I, scene iv. But He, that hath the steerage of my course, Where's Potpan, that he helps not to take away? We'll keep no great ado,--a friend or two; For, hark you, Tybalt being slain so late. I pray thee, chide not; she whom I love now. Come, we'll in here; tarry for the. Come, night; come, Romeo; come, thou day in night; For thou wilt lie upon the wings of night. Than twenty of their swords: look thou but sweet. And, on my lie, hath stol'n him home to bed. So Romeo would, were he not Romeo call'd, Retain that dear perfection which he owes. And turns it to exile; there art thou happy: A pack of blessings lights up upon thy back; Thou pout'st upon thy fortune and thy love: Take heed, take heed, for such die miserable. O, find him! Then will I lay the serving-creature's dagger on. Categories . Capulet! Now, by my maidenhead, at twelve year old. and yet thou, An I were so apt to quarrel as thou art, any man. Which once untangled, much misfortune bodes: This is the hag, when maids lie on their backs. She will not stay the siege of loving terms. This simile is meant to emphasize the unintended departure of the night. the cords. Then I will give you the serving-creature. Hath wash'd thy sallow cheeks for Rosaline! when 'twas a little prating thing:--O, there, is a nobleman in town, one Paris, that would fain, lay knife aboard; but she, good soul, had as lief, see a toad, a very toad, as see him. Where shall we dine? I have watch'd ere now. Till the prince came, who parted either part. I have a head, sir, that will find out logs. Madam, your mother craves a word with you. More light and light; more dark and dark our woes! let me see her: out, alas! Maintains such falsehood, then turn tears to fires; And these, who often drown'd could never die. 2. For I ne'er saw true beauty till this night. Lies festering in his shroud; where, as they say, At some hours in the night spirits resort;--. I warrant thee, my man's as true as steel. Your looks are pale and wild, and do import. Sometime she driveth o'er a soldier's neck. What, art thou drawn among these heartless hinds? Call Peter, he will show thee where they are. It was. sweet-heart! And gladly shunn'd who gladly fled from me. But old folks, many feign as they were dead; Hast thou met with him? But thou art not quickly moved to strike. bella-gray-3. Lest that thy love prove likewise variable. Hist! What dares the slave. pronounce this sentence then. ROMEO A thousand times the worse, to want thy light. This day's black fate on more days doth depend; This but begins the woe, others must end. Well, sir; my mistress is the sweetest lady--Lord, Lord! As much to him, else is his thanks too much. He swung about his head and cut the winds. Now, Tybalt, take the villain back again, That late thou gavest me; for Mercutio's soul. And doth it give me such a sight as this? To enter in the thoughts of desperate men! give me some aqua vitae: These griefs, these woes, these sorrows make me old. Is your man secret? Well, do not swear: although I joy in thee. I' faith, I am sorry that thou art not well. Thank me no thankings, nor, proud me no prouds. That after hours with sorrow chide us not! My back o' t' other side,--O, my back, my back! Thy wit is a very bitter sweeting; it is a most. To hear true shrift. what, dost thou make us minstrels? Come, let's away; the strangers all are gone. Such as would please: 'tis gone, 'tis gone, 'tis gone: You are welcome, gentlemen! what a head have I! That she doth give her sorrow so much sway. Doth make against me of this direful murder; And here I stand, both to impeach and purge. Have not saints lips, and holy palmers too? what light through yonder window breaks? (Act 3 Scene 5) Romeo has left for Mantua, and Juliet … From love's weak childish bow she lives unharm'd. Tickle the senseless rushes with their heels. Not mad, but bound more than a mad-man is; Whipp'd and tormented and--God-den, good fellow. This bud of love, by summer's ripening breath. Conceit, more rich in matter than in words. I'll say yon grey is not the morning's eye. He put himself below Juliet and spoke to her in a weak tone, especially during the well-known balcony scene. answer to that; Say either, and I'll stay the circumstance: Well, you have made a simple choice; you know not, how to choose a man: Romeo! I bade her come. Now I have stain'd the childhood of our joy. Indeed, I should have ask'd you that before. The orchard walls are high and hard to climb. She's also "the sun" who can "kill the envious moon" (II.2.3). To help to take her from her borrow'd grave. As that the villain lives which slaughter'd him. Exit, above. Where all the kindred of the Capulets lie. Bliss be upon you! A plague o', both your houses! At this point in the scene Juliet is at her … May prove a beauteous flower when next we meet. that which we call a rose. Or, if thou wilt not, be but sworn my love. ah sir! Example #3: Verona newspaper. Come weep with me; past hope, past cure, past help! Then mightst thou speak, then mightst thou tear thy hair. We will have vengeance for it, fear thou not: Then weep no more. Five times in that ere once in our five wits. Adding to clouds more clouds with his deep sighs; Should in the furthest east begin to draw. That presses them and learns them first to bear, And more inconstant than the wind, who wooes. And this shall free thee from this present shame; Give me, give me! is it my lady mother? to the goose, proves thee far and wide a broad goose. An example of a pun in Romeo and Juliet is when Shakespeare writes a conversation between Sampson and Gregory. O love! 'Romeo is banished!'. Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon, And bid him come to take his last farewell. Tell me, good my friend, What torch is yond, that vainly lends his light. With tender Juliet match'd, is now not fair. I met the youthful lord at Laurence' cell; Why, I am glad on't; this is well: stand up: This is as't should be. And, in this rage, with some great kinsman's bone. Give me a torch: I am not for this ambling; Nay, gentle Romeo, we must have you dance. Wilt thou provoke me? But not possess'd it, and, though I am sold, To an impatient child that hath new robes. I nursed her daughter, that you talk'd withal; O dear account! Good heart, and, i' faith, I will tell her as much: What wilt thou tell her, nurse? How now, how now, chop-logic! Scurvy knave! What should it be, that they so shriek abroad? Sweet flower, with flowers thy bridal bed I strew,--. We'll have no Cupid hoodwink'd with a scarf, Nor no without-book prologue, faintly spoke. He'll fright you up, i' faith. As are behoveful for our state to-morrow: And let the nurse this night sit up with you; For, I am sure, you have your hands full all. Do as I bid thee, go. The ground is bloody; search about the churchyard: Go, some of you, whoe'er you find attach. And with a silk thread plucks it back again. Come, bitter conduct, come, unsavoury guide! Came more and more and fought on part and part. Alack the day, she's dead, she's dead, she's dead! To see, now, how a jest shall come about! That birds would sing and think it were not night. Romeo, arise; Thou wilt be taken. Romeo, hist! From off the battlements of yonder tower; Where serpents are; chain me with roaring bears; O'er-cover'd quite with dead men's rattling bones. O my dear kinsman! Thy purpose marriage, send me word to-morrow. Be sacrificed, some hour before his time. With tears augmenting the fresh morning dew. Let me peruse this face. What, is my daughter gone to Friar Laurence? Canker'd with peace, to part your canker'd hate: Your lives shall pay the forfeit of the peace. It is, written, that the shoemaker should meddle with his, yard, and the tailor with his last, the fisher with, his pencil, and the painter with his nets; but I am, sent to find those persons whose names are here, writ, and can never find what names the writing. Should be so tyrannous and rough in proof! During the famous balcony scene, this simile is addressed to Juliet. They call for dates and quinces in the pastry. Stay, then; I'll go alone. What is yond gentleman? Here is a friar, that trembles, sighs and weeps: We took this mattock and this spade from him.