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| Character | Romeo | |
|---|---|---|
| Gender | Male | |
| Age Range(s) | Teenager (13-19), Young Adult (20-35) | |
| Type of monologue / Character is | In love, Descriptive | |
| Type | Dramatic | |
| Period | Renaissance | |
| Genre | Tragedy | |
| Description | Romeo sees Juliet at her window | |
| Location | ACT II, Scene 2 | |
Summary
In the city of Verona we find two quarreling families, the Montegues and the Capulets. Romeo belongs to the Montegue family and Juliet to the Capulets. In this first scene of the play a fight takes place between servants and kinsmen of the two families until the Prince of Verona stops them. Benvolio runs into his cousin Romeo who tells him he is in love with Rosaline who has sworn to live a life of chastity and therefore does not return her love. Benvolio advices him to forget about her but Romeo won't listen to him.
The Capulets throw a masquerade party at their house. Capulet, the father of the Capulet family asks Paris, a kinsman to the Prince, to meet his daughter Juliet at the party and court her. He wants him to marry her but wait at least two years since she is thirteen years old.
Mercutio convinces his friend Romeo to join him and his friends at the Capulet party. Romeo is reluctant but then accepts to go. There he meets Juliet and instantly falls in love. He meets her and they kiss. Tybalt, Juliet's cousin, notices that they are at his party and wants to start a fight but is stopped by Capulet. Romeo and his friends leave the party but then Romeo decides to go back and meet Juliet again. He climbs into the Capulet's orchard and there he sees Juliet at the window. In this monologue, in ACT II, Scene 2, he admires Juliet's beauty.
The Capulets throw a masquerade party at their house. Capulet, the father of the Capulet family asks Paris, a kinsman to the Prince, to meet his daughter Juliet at the party and court her. He wants him to marry her but wait at least two years since she is thirteen years old.
Mercutio convinces his friend Romeo to join him and his friends at the Capulet party. Romeo is reluctant but then accepts to go. There he meets Juliet and instantly falls in love. He meets her and they kiss. Tybalt, Juliet's cousin, notices that they are at his party and wants to start a fight but is stopped by Capulet. Romeo and his friends leave the party but then Romeo decides to go back and meet Juliet again. He climbs into the Capulet's orchard and there he sees Juliet at the window. In this monologue, in ACT II, Scene 2, he admires Juliet's beauty.
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| ROMEO He jests at scars that never felt a wound. [JULIET appears above at a window] But, soft! what light through yonder window breaks? It is the east, and Juliet is the sun. Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon, Who is already sick and pale with grief, That thou her maid art far more fair than she: Be not her maid, since she is envious; Her vestal livery is but sick and green And none but fools do wear it; cast it off. It is my lady, O, it is my love! O, that she knew she were! She speaks yet she says nothing: what of that? Her eye discourses; I will answer it. I am too bold, 'tis not to me she speaks: Two of the fairest stars in all the heaven, Having some business, do entreat her eyes To twinkle in their spheres till they return. What if her eyes were there, they in her head? The brightness of her cheek would shame those stars, As daylight doth a lamp; her eyes in heaven Would through the airy region stream so bright That birds would sing and think it were not night. See, how she leans her cheek upon her hand! O, that I were a glove upon that hand, That I might touch that cheek! |
