Romeo And Juliet Quote Analysis Essay

Romeo : Quote analysis.
Character Trait: Brave.
Quote #1:
“Let me be captured. Let me be put to death. I am content, if that’s the way you want it. I’ll say the light over there isn’t morning. [...] Come, death, and welcome! […] Hie hence! Be gone, away! It is the lark that sings so out of tune, Straining harsh discords and unpleasing sharps. Some say the lark makes sweet division. This doth not so, for she divideth us. […] Oh, now I would they had changed voices too, since arm from arm that voice doth us affray, hunting thee hence with hunt’s-up to the day. O, now be gone.”(III.v.17-35) At night time, Romeo goes to meet Juliet, but Juliet is afraid that Romeo is going to be caught and killed by one of the security guards, so she tells him to leave. Romeo on the other hand, rather stay then leave and expresses no fear of being caught or killed. Juliet goes on saying that the lark that is supposed to show a good division between day and night, does not do the same with her and Romeo, instead it separates them. In this quote, Romeo refuses Juliet’s warning about being caught and instead says that he is ready to die than leave Juliet. The use of foreshadowing “Let me be ta'en. Let me be put to death.” foreshadows his tragic death. The use of foreshadowing divulges the character trait brave, because it tells the reader that Romeo is not

After Romeo and Juliet fell in love with each other, Romeo momentarily arranged their marriage the next day. This character trait affects the events in the play because since Romeo and Juliet are planning to get married, Juliet doesn’t want to marry Paris who she is forced to marry, which upsets him. She uses a potion she received from Friar Lawrence to fake her death. But, everyone except the Friar thinks Juliet is dead, therefore Romeo’s friend Balthazar tells Romeo, who unfortunately ends up killing himself after hearing Juliet is