Q1. Comment On The Beauty of Juliet Described by Romeo at The Beginning of The Extract

Romeo & Juliet (Act II, Scene II)

Q1. Comment on the beauty of Juliet described by Romeo at the beginning of the
extract.
He uses the metaphor of the sun to describe how light and lovely she appears to him. He
continues to expand on the metaphor by describing that the moon would be jealous of Juliet (the
sun) because Juliet, as the sun, is much more beautiful than the moon itself.
The sun is bright like his love for Juliet. Juliet has given him life and must the same way as the
sun gives live. In other words, juliet is as vital to his life as the sun might be. that she is the very
center of his universe. The moon must be jealous of how beautiful she is
Romeo. 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.
Q2 What does Juliet say about their names?
Juliet says that names shouldn’t matter because they are just words to distinguish something
from another. It does not create worth nor does it create true meaning; they don’t actually define
or change the thing they name.
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Q3 comment about image
 The scene begins when Romeo speaks about the rising sun and compares Juliet to it and
says that the moon is 'envious' of Juliet's beauty. Juliet is described as a 'bright
angel' so light is being seen as something positive.
However, later in the scene darkness is described as 'night's cloak' which means that Romeo is
using it to hide so he can enter the Capulet's grounds. In this way darkness could be seen as
something useful. Juliet also says that darkness is useful as it hides the fact that she blushes when
Romeo talks to her; 'the mask of night is on my face.'
Light is also used in a different way when Juliet says 'And not impute this yielding to light love'
which means she does not want Romeo to think she is taking what is happening lightly.
The coming of the light at the end of the scene marks the end of their exchange and we are left to
wonder on what will happen next.
-is the contrast between light and dark, often in terms of night/day imagery. in which Juliet,
metaphorically described as the sun, is seen as banishing the “envious moon” and transforming
the night into day. the balcony scene when Romeo describes Juliet as the sun, being so beautiful
and radiant that she has the power to turn night into day
 Romeo says he came to garden on the light wings of love, because even heavy stone
walls cannot hold love out. He says that love will try to do everything that is possible. He
is not afraid of Juliet's family because he has so much love.

Romeo. With love's light wings did I o'er-perch these walls;

For stony limits cannot hold love out,
And what love can do that dares love attempt;
Therefore thy kinsmen are no let to me.
Juliet asks Romeo how he has managed to reach her bedroom, and this is his reply. These
lines show that for Romeo, love is freedom. As a lover, he can ignore the boundaries set
by the feud between Montagues and Capulets. Yet Romeo’s words also suggest that he
retains a primarily abstract and poetic understanding of love, more fantasy than reality
Q4: Analyzie character
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. Unaware of his presence, what does Juliet ask Romeo to say?
Juliet asks romeo to "Deny thy father and refuse thy name"(2.2.34), so that he will no longer be a
Montague, or -- if he won't do that -- if he will just swear he loves her, she will give up the name
of "Capulet."
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. In a sentence or two, explain what Juliet says about names.
Juliet is expressing that it does not matter what a person’s name is, a rose would still be
a sweet smelling flower if it were called by another name. She is comparing Romeo to a
rose and states that it is just a name and not the person within
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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. . . .
The brightness of her cheek would shame those stars
As daylight doth a lamp; her eye in heaven
Would through the airy region stream so bright
That birds would sing and think it were not night.
Romeo speaks these lines in the so-called balcony scene, when, hiding in the Capulet orchard
after the feast, he sees Juliet leaning out of a high window (2.1.44–64). Though it is late at night,
Juliet’s surpassing beauty makes Romeo imagine that she is the sun, transforming the darkness
into daylight. Romeo likewise personifies the moon, calling it “sick and pale with grief” at the
fact that Juliet, the sun, is far brighter and more beautiful. Romeo then compares Juliet to the
stars, claiming that she eclipses the stars as daylight overpowers a lamp—her eyes alone shine so
bright that they will convince the birds to sing at night as if it were day.
This quote is important because in addition to initiating one of the play’s most beautiful and
famous sequences of poetry, it is a prime example of the light/dark motif that runs throughout the
play. Many scenes in Romeo and Juliet are set either late at night or early in the morning, and
Shakespeare often uses the contrast between night and day to explore opposing alternatives in a
given situation. Here, Romeo imagines Juliet transforming darkness into light; later, after their
wedding night, Juliet convinces Romeo momentarily that the daylight is actually night (so that he
doesn’t yet have to leave her room).
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O Romeo, Romeo,
wherefore art thou Romeo?
Deny thy father and refuse thy name,
Or if thou wilt not, be but sworn my love,
And I’ll no longer be a Capulet.
Leaning out of her upstairs window, unaware that Romeo is below in the orchard, she asks why
Romeo must be Romeo—why he must be a Montague, the son of her family’s greatest enemy).
Still unaware of Romeo’s presence, she asks him to deny his family for her love. She adds,
however, that if he will not, she will deny her family in order to be with him if he merely tells
her that he loves her.
A major theme in Romeo and Juliet is the tension between social and family identity
(represented by one’s name) and one’s inner identity. Juliet believes that love stems from one’s
inner identity, and that the feud between the Montagues and the Capulets is a product of the outer
identity, based only on names. She thinks of Romeo in individual terms, and thus her love for
him overrides her family’s hatred for the Montague name. She says that if Romeo were not
called “Romeo” or “Montague,” he would still be the person she loves. “What’s in a name?” she
asks. “That which we call a rose / By any other word would smell as sweet” (2.1.85–86).

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Romeo. With love's light wings did I o'er-perch these walls;

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