What is Romeo saying about Diana and Juliet?

Answer 1

She is beautiful

because before he fell in love with juliet,

he already knew rosaline but when he was

invited to a party where he first saw juliet,

he was fall in love in to her its just like an

a "Love at first site".

Answer 2

She doesn't really, not in the way that Robert Burns does when he says "my love is like a red red rose." That's a simile. What Juliet is using is an analogy to support her argument that changing the name of something does not change what it is. If you changed Romeo's name from Montague to something else he would still have all the same characteristics, just as if you changed the name of a rose to something else it would still smell the same. Or if you changed the name of lead to something else it would still be as heavy. Or if you changed the name of water to something else it would still be as wet. And so on and so on. There is nothing particular about the rose that makes it suitable for this argument; it may have come into Juliet's head because there were roses in her garden. And Juliet is certainly not saying that Romeo has the characteristics of a rose, even metaphorically.

Answer 3

Romeo does not name Diana in connection with Juliet, ever. But his speech when he first sees Juliet on the balcony may have a connection: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:
Be not her maid, since she is envious;
Her vestal livery is but sick and green
And none but fools do wear it; cast it off.
In this extended metaphor, Romeo compares Juliet to the sun. He invites the sun (Juliet) to rise and "kill the envious moon" as the sun's light makes the moon's invisible. He then goes on to talk about the moon, who is "sick and pale", that is, it gives off less light than the sun. And why is this so? Grief that the sun is more fair than the moon. And the words "thou her maid" would suggest that the sun is the moon's maid. But the underlying metaphor is that of Diana or Artemis, the goddess of the moon who was also the goddess of virginity. Being the moon's maid here means a woman sworn to chastity. That is why earlier Romeo said Rosaline had "Dian's wit". So Juliet, the virgin, and hence Diana's maid, is the sun who is brighter than the moon who is also Diana. Romeo then begs Juliet (though she cannot hear him) to "be not her maid", or give up virginity because the clothing of virginity and therefore Diana is sick and green and worn by fools. Notice how Shakespeare uses repetition of words to tie this complex metaphor together: "Juliet is the sun" and "arise fair sun"; "the envious moon" and "she is envious"; "sick and pale" and "sick and green"; "thou her maid" and "be not her maid".

Answer 4

He doesn't. When Shakespeare has people talk about stars in this play it usually refers to fate, as in "star-crossed lovers". But both Romeo and Juliet use the image of stars in another context. Romeo says, in the balcony scene:Two of the fairest stars in all the heaven,
Having some business, do entreat her eyes
To twinkle in their spheres till they return.
What if her eyes were there, they in her head?
The brightness of her cheek would shame those stars,
As daylight doth a lamp; her eyes in heaven
Would through the airy region stream so bright
That birds would sing and think it were not night.He is not comparing Juliet to the stars. He is comparing her eyes to the stars, saying that her eyes are brighter than stars, as is the skin of her cheek. Of course, Romeo did, a few lines earlier, compare Juliet to the sun.

Answer 5

Because Diana the goddess of the hunt was a virgin. Rosaline is the girl that Romeo loves before Juliet. However, Rosaline has sworn chastity and will become a nun!

Answer 6

it won't its just yucky stuff that other people do

Answer 7

Diana.