Mercutio and the Nurse both speak of things that are vulgarity, which is to say, are specific references to the sexual act. The Nurse repeats, over and over, a joke that her husband told that although Juliet had fallen on her face as a little girl, she will learn to lie on her back when she is grown up. The Nurse also alludes to pregnancy when she says, "Nay, women grow by men." Mercutio is so full of dirty jokes it is hard to know which ones to select, but just about everything he says in Act II Scene 1 is filthy. In particular this scene contains a piece of censorship which continues to the present day. "O that she were/ An open-arse and thou a pop'rin pear." "Open-arse was a vulgar term for the medlar fruit, but in most editions the word "arse" is replaced by a euphemistic "et cetera" which wrecks the scansion. Both medlars and Pears are fruits, but the conjunction of "open-arse" with "popperin" (sounding like "pop 'er in") is extremely evocative, especially if one considers the shape of pears and medlars.
The only forbidden love in Romeo and Juliet is the only love in the play, the love between Romeo and Juliet.
At the beginning of the play, Romeo is playing the unrequited lover: he loves Rosaline, but she won't give him the time of day. Therefore he sits around moping.
Is Romeo suffering from unrequited love because he loves Rosaline and she doesn't love him back, and she wants to remain a virgin. Could anyone please elaborate on this? thank you
The answer on apex is "why then O brawling love!"
Because Romeo has just experienced unrequited love, so Benvolio advises him to go to the Capulets' party to find someone else to love. At this point Romeo meets Juliet and are now secretly in love with each other. By BV
Love as Religious WorshipCall me but love and I'll be new baptized" (2.2.4). -Romeo says to Juliet as a way to suggest that Juliet's love has the potential to make him "reborn."When the pair first meets, Romeo calls Juliet a "saint" and implies that he'd really like to "worship" her body (1.5.2).Not only that, but Romeo's "hand" would be "blessed" if it touched the divine Juliet's (1.5.1). Eventually, Juliet picks up on this "religion of love" and declares that Romeo is "the god of her idolatry" (2.2.12).Conclusion; Romeo is making love into a religious type of worship of worship with Juliet.
Juliet: "Romeo, Romeo, Wherefore art thou Romeo?"
They died.
To begin with? He has an unrequited love of Rosaline but forgets about her when he meets Juliet who he then wants to marry.
Romeo's friends Mercutio and Benvolio tease him about his unrequited love for Rosaline in Shakespeare's play "Romeo and Juliet." They often mock Romeo for his lovesickness and obsession with Rosaline, which sets the stage for his eventual meeting with Juliet.
Dido was the Queen of Carthage in Roman mythology. In Mercutio's speech from Romeo and Juliet, he references Dido in a somewhat cynical and mocking way to portray the idea of unrequited love and its consequences.
i will be juliet and you will be romeo
Is Romeo suffering from unrequited love because he loves Rosaline and she doesn't love him back, and she wants to remain a virgin. Could anyone please elaborate on this? thank you
Juliet, of course.
At the opening of Romeo and Juliet, Benvolio teases Romeo about being in love with Rosaline. Romeo is having no success with Rosaline (and in fact he goes to the Capulet's ball because he believes she will be there). We do not know if Rosaline is Romeo's first love - for all we know he may have had many girlfriends before her. But she never appears in the play, and as soon as Romeo sees Juliet he forgets all about her. I thought that he went becasue his friend made him go!
An example of euphemism in Romeo and Juliet is when Romeo and Juliet refer to death as "wedding bed" when they discuss their impending deaths as a result of their forbidden love. They use this euphemism to soften the harsh reality of their situation.
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In Act 1, Scene 4 of "Romeo and Juliet," Romeo is in a somber mood because he is still heartbroken over his unrequited love for Rosaline. He tells his friends that he has a sense of foreboding about the party and worries that the night's events will lead to something unfortunate.
i know this doesnt answer the question but i love that play!!