Juxtaposition, And Oxymorons In Shakespeare's Romeo And Juliet

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In a story many years old there were two families the montagues and the capulets. These two families hated each other so much that they would fight and try to kill one another, but there were two people who were destined to be together from each family. In William Shakespeare's play “Romeo and Juliet” there are many pieces of figurative language with hidden meanings. Shakespeare uses paradox, juxtaposition, and oxymorons to explain the story. Shakespeare uses paradox and irony to explain romeo and juliet's love because they never got to love. Juliet says, “Learn me how to lose a winning match” (3.2.1-31). It becomes a paradox when she is in a winning match but wants to lose and you can’t lose a winning match. When she feels conflicted she …show more content…
Friar Laurence knew before that they would fail when he said, “These violent delights have violent ends” (2.1.9).
He is saying that if they move their love too fast it will blow up in their faces. He says, “The sweetest honey is loathsome in his own deliciousness” (2.1.11-12). Their love may be sweet at first but then they go rotten and taste bad Just like how friar lawrence married them and then they died for it. When he tries to help them with their love they both end up dying at his hand. Romeo is caught by surprise from the beauty of juliet and makes her move so fast they end up dying together just hours after their marriage. Romeo loves her so he says, “O, she doth teach the torches to burn bright!” (1.5.42-51). Juliet is so pretty Romeo says that she should teach the torches how to burn bright because she is so bright in his eyes. When he finds her unconscious he says, “Thou detestable maw, thou womb of death” (3.5.45). Romeo uses a paradox to explain that he found life in juliet and now that she is ‘dead’ Romeo will be dead too. When Romeo came back to came back to find juliet he found her “dead” so in his despair he kills himself, then Juliet wakes up and in her despair she kills
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