WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Juliet disobeys her family’s choice of her spouse in the act of love and despite the Montagues also being a noble family. Such an artistic decision is inherent to the Renaissance tradition of humanism as the author underlined the fact that in life nothing comes easily and without conflict.

Detailed explanation-2: -This imagery serves two purposes in the play. It underlines the purity of Romeo and Juliet’s love by associating it with a pure feeling such as religion, and it creates an escape from their damnation according to Christian values by creating the religion of love.

Detailed explanation-3: -He says, ‘’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. ‘’ The image here is Juliet’s beauty shining so brightly that she can only be compared to the sun.

Detailed explanation-4: -Friar Lawrence was the priest in Romeo and Juliet. He was the one who got Romeo and Juliet married, gave Juliet the potion and sent the letter that never reached Romeo. Friar Lawrence is a type of father figure towards Romeo.