Monday, May 16, 2016

Romeo's Banishment

 In Act 3, Scene 2, Juliet learns of Romeo's banishment. She calls him names that contradict each other because she cannot make up her mind about him. Romeo killed her cousin, whom she loved, but she also loves Romeo. She calls him "A damned Saint, an honorable villain!" Later in the scene, she realized that Romeo had to kill Tybalt or Romeo would have died. She is further conflicted. All she knows is that Romeo's banishment has made her distraught. 
 In Act 3, Scene 3, Romeo learns of his own banishment. He tells the Friar that he would rather be dead than be alive and not be able to see Juliet. Romeo says that even flies are better than him because they can be close to Juliet. He makes it clear that without her his like is meaningless. "'Tis torture, and not mercy. Heaven is here, where Juliet lives...and sayst thou yet that exile is not death?" 
 Both characters react very dramatically and cannot comprehend Romeo's banishment. This tells us that they are extremely upset about the idea that they will never see each other again and hat they feel incomplete without the other.

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