In Romeo and Juliet Shakespeare uses personification to
create his theme of fortune and fate throughout the play. His use of
personification of Night and Death also create the theme of love and hate.
In Romeo and Juliet Shakespeare personifies Night to create
fortune and fate, as well as the theme of love and hate. The personification of
night is used in the quote “Come, Night, come, Romeo, come thou day in
night,”(Shakespeare, III, ii, 17) said by Juliet. Juliet wants night to come so
that Romeo can come. She is also talking about Romeo, and how he is her day but
he comes to her at night. Juliet is also using Night for two meanings, she
wants night time to come but she is also referring to Romeo being her knight.
So night is when her knight(knight in shining armor then) Romeo can come and
see her. The personification of Night creates the theme of love and hate
because Juliet’s parents hate Romeo and the Montague’s, and the Montague’s hate
Juliet and the Capulet’s. The hate of Romeo and Juliet’s parents means that
their love cannot be discovered or seen, so they can only meet at night. The fate
us that Romeo and Juliet’s love for one another cannot be shared, shown or
expressed in front of anyone, but the fortune is that they share their love
anyway in the cover of night.
In Romeo and Juliet the personification of Death is found in
the quote “O son, the night before thy wedding day Hath Death lain with thy
wife. There she lies, Flower as she was, deflowered by him. Death is my
son-in-law, Death is my heir, My daughter he hath wedded. I will die, And leave
him all; life, living, all is Death’s.”(Shakespeare IIII, v, 35-39) said by Capulet
to Paris. He is referring to Death as his son-in-law, for wedding and taking
his beautiful flower of a girl away from him. This personification of Death is
used to create the theme of love and hate, with fortune and fate. This death is
fortune for Romeo and Juliet because it is a faked death so that she may escape
and run away with Romeo. It is fate for her family because they think Juliet is
actually dead and it is a tragic thing to happen right before her wedding. This
creates the theme of love and hate because Juliet’s parents hate Romeo and the
Montague’s, but Juliet loves Romeo so she fakes her death to be with her love
without hate. Because Romeo is banished and many people hate him for killing
Tybalt, they have to secretly run away together so that he is not killed
himself. The fortune and fate of this is that for the fortune of Romeo and
Juliet’s love Juliet uses and fakes death, but the fate is that Romeo was not
told in time so when he found her sleeping he thinks she was dead so he kills
himself. When Juliet wakes up she sees what has happened she kills herself too.
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