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Adding Clouds to More Clouds:
An Analysis of Shakespeare's Use of Light and Dark Imagery In Romeo and Juliet

Night is a time when the rigidity of family feuds can be suspended, when lovers can be freed of societal dicta; but it is also a time when hierarchy, taboo, and humane principles can be violated.
-Triple-Threat Shakespeare, Jeanne Roberts

Romeo is longing for love when he says he has a soul of lead, and is pierced by cupid's shaft. The oxymoron ‘she speaks, yet says nothing' describes Romeo's circumstances brilliantly. Such imagery could only be used to illustrate precisely how Romeo feels. In the play Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare's light and dark imagery functions to express deep emotion. Themes are made more relevant to an audience by using common images and using symbolic representation.
Shakespeare uses light imagery in Romeo and Juliet when Romeo compares "Two of the fairest stars in all the heaven,"(II.ii.15) to the brightness and shining of Juliet's eyes.......

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