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Although Juliet is only 13, she considers the world with striking maturity. His behavior has been notably antisocial - he preferred to submit to the misery of his own amorous failures.Īlthough Romeo has matured in the brief time since the beginning of the play, he remains somewhat immature when compared with Juliet - a pattern that recurs throughout their relationship. Up to this point, Romeo has expressed his emotions in a traditional, colloquial style.

Romeo is no longer the melancholy lover of Act I. His speeches are now in blank verse rather than the rhymed iambic pentameter evident in his earlier sonnets and couplets. Romeo begins to display signs of increasing maturity in this scene. Romeo returns to the religious imagery used between the lovers in their sonnets at the feast when he describes Juliet as, "a bright angel" and "dear saint." The recurring use of religious imagery emphasizes the purity of Romeo and Juliet's love - as distinguished from the Nurse and Mercutio's understanding of love that is constituted in the physical, sexual aspects. Shakespeare describes the natural quality of their love by juxtaposing the balcony scene with Mercutio's lewd sexual jokes in the previous scene. Romeo and Juliet fear that they might be exposed - that the artificial light of discovery might be shone upon them, thereby forcing their permanent separation. As night ends and dawn breaks, the two are forced to part to avoid being discovered by the Capulet kinsmen. Throughout the play, their love flourishes at night - an allusion to the forbidden nature of their relationship. The scene takes place at nighttime, illustrating the way Romeo and Juliet's love exists in a world quite distinct from the violence of the feud. Thus, as Romeo steps from the moonlit darkness into the light from Juliet's balcony, he has left behind his melodramatic woes and moved toward a more genuine, mature understanding of love. Romeo had always compared Rosaline to the moon, and now, his love for Juliet has outshone the moon. He then asks the sun to rise and kill the envious moon. As Romeo stands in the shadows, he looks to the balcony and compares Juliet to the sun. Shakespeare uses light and dark imagery in this scene to describe the blossoming of Romeo and Juliet's romance.

Here, in the famous balcony scene, Romeo and Juliet reveal their love to each other, and at Juliet's suggestion, they plan to marry.

The scene contains some of the more recognizable and memorable passages in all of Shakespeare. Analysis of Setting in the Opening Scenes of Luhrmann's Film, Romeo + Juliet.The Role of Comic Characters in a Tragedy.