The Motif Of Night In Romeo And Juliet

“It often seems to me that the night is more alive and richly coloured than the day,” said Vincent Van Gogh. His words relate to William Shakespeare’s play, Romeo and Juliet, where the Montagues and the Capulets have an incessant feud that prevents Romeo and Juliet, from pursuing their feelings during the day. Instead, the colours of their love will shine vibrantly at night when Romeo relies on the blanket of darkness to sneak into the Capulet garden to converse to Juliet. However, fate divides them apart in many ways. For instance, Lord Capulet forces Juliet to marry Paris, kinsman to the Prince of Verona who banishes Romeo and Juliet drinks a potion as part of a plan. However, miscommunication happens when Romeo believes that death reaches Juliet, thus he commits suicide by drinking poison. Juliet wakes up to find Romeo dead and uses his sword to take her own life. Fate presents the tragedy of their love as Romeo and Juliet must both die in order to stay together. When most people see darkness they know that it depicts night, and when they see light, they know that night has come to an end, but when Juliet sees Romeo she knows night has come. While when she sees Romeo leave, she knows night advances no more. In William Shakespeare 's Romeo and Juliet, throughout the play, tracing as a sense of longing contains the motif of night.

The motif of night appears numerous times in Romeo and Juliet, illustrating how Romeo spends most of his time with Juliet at night. Without