Analyse von Romeo und Julia
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Prologue
Act I
1. Scene
2. Scene
3. Scene
4. Scene
- Romeo can not decide a speech for the party.
- Benvolio does not want to apologize and he says that these speeches are old-fashioned and they are disguised so they could dance there.
- Romeo does not want to dance, because he feels sad and he wants to take a torch to light the way; but Benvolio does not accept it
- Romeo says that Benvolio wears "nimble soles" (light), but Romeo's soul is heavy and so he can not move (opposing words/wordplay (soul-soles); personification: Romeo's soul is heavy)
- Mercutio says that Romeo is a lover and he should take the wings of Cupid (symbol of love) and fly higher than the average man (divine order)
- Romeo says that the arrows of Cupid pierce (durchbohren) him and so he can not fly high with the light feather (lightweight) - he sinks down because of the weight of love (opposing words: light - weight);
- wordplay (soar-sore): Mercutio says Romeo should "soar" (fliegen) and Romeo says that he is too "sore" to fly.
- Benvolio doesn't accept that Romeo sinks down and drag down the beautiful love (metaphor)
- Romeo doesn't accept that love is tender (weich) and he says that love is rude (he repeats it) and it pricks (stechen) like a thorn (Stachel) (Metaphor/Repetition)
- Mercutio says that Romeo should be rude to love (that means Romeo cure himself if he had sex); Romeo should prick the love down (wordplay prick (stechen) - prick (man's sexual organ)); then Mercutio wants an another mask, because he does not care if someone sees his face (wordplay: a visor for an visor (Eine Maske für ein hässliches Gesicht)
- Mercutio wants to knock the door to start the dance
- Romeo wants torch; and playful people can dance with their light hearts (lightweight); he says that there is an old saying ("gransire phrase") (Sprichwort) that he can't lose if he does not play (it underlines his sadness); he only wants to look to the guys
- Mercutio wants to stick Romeo out of the mud (metaphor/divine order!) and the metaphor means that they want to stick Romeo out of the love - he does not waste more daylight (light motive)
- But Romeo says that it is night (opposing words/darkness)
- Mercutio explains that they were wasting the light of the torch (light motive) like wasting the daylight of the day (simile/light motive) - he wants that Romeo thinks about the words of Mercutio (Comparison: wind - dreams)
- Romeo says that he dreamed last night, Mercutio jokes about it that he also dreamed too (So did I) and he says that dreamers often lie (humorous aspect)
- Romeo wordplays over it that people lie in the bed (wordplay: lie (lügen) - lie(liegen)) and dreams about the truth
- Mercutio talks about the Queen Mad and gives many nonsense explaniation and so Benvolio wants to stop him; Mercutios explains that Dreams are nonsense and a product of the brain: he says that dreams are imaginations of the people and noticeable like the wind (sometimes it blows from the north - sometimes from the south) - So Mercutios makes humour about Romeo.
- Benvolio makes a metaphor that the winds blows them off the course (sailing - life as a voyage)
- Romeo starts foreshadowing: He thinks that he will get bad feelings on the party and this will end his life (death motive); he can not decide how his life will sail (voyage motive; Metaphor: God guides his life ("He that hath steerage of my course")
5. Scene
- The servingmans joking together as they prepare for the dancing.
- Capulet welcomes the dancers: "Ladies that have their toes unplagued with corns will walk a bout with you" (Imaginery/humour: Corn is a disease on the foot)
- "She makes dainty, she I'll swear hath corns" (Generalisation: Every woman who do not want to dance have the disease)
- Capulet says that there was a time, when he could wear a mask and charm a lady by whisper a story in her ear but this time is gone (Repetition: 'tis gone, 'tis gone, 'tis gone)
- Capulet asks his Cousin how long they don't dance with masks; Capulet thinks that it was a short time; but the Cousin tells that is was a long time (Opposing words: long - short)
- Romeo sees Juliet and starts a Sonnet:
- Speaker: Romeo
- Topic: Romeo is entranced by Juliet's beauty
- Devices: Analysis of the Sonnet:
- Oh, she doth teach the torches to burn bright!" (Imaginery: she teach the torches to burn bright (She is brighter than the light); light motive)
- "It seems she hangs upon the cheek of night like a rich jewel in an Ethiope's ear" (Comparison: "like a rich jewel" (She stands again the darkness like a jewel); Imaginery: she stands again the night with her brightness; Opposing words: bright - darkness)
- "Beauty too rich for use, for earth too dear" (Exaggeration: Her beauty is to good for the world; Repetition: rich, Comparison: Her Beauty - Earth)
- "So shows a snowy dove trooping with crows as yonder lady o'er her fellows shows" (Comparison: "as yonder lady" (Juliet is more beautiful than the other ladies); Metaphor/Comparison: Juliet shines so bright that she will be seen as a white bright dove (Taube) in a middle of black crows (Raben); Opposing words: Dove - Crows)
- "The measure done, I'll watch her place of stand, and, touching hers, make blessèd my rude hand." (If the dance will stop he will touch her hand with his ugly hands) (Opposing words: his rude hands - her beauty hands)
- "Did my heart love till now?" (Rhetorical Question: Did his heart ever love anyone before this moment?)
- "Forswear it, sight! For I ne'er saw true beauty till this night" (Exaggeration: He does not believe his eyes and says that he never seen a beauty until the night; night motive; Comparison: There does not exists something which so beauty like Juliet)
- END OF THE SONNET
- Tybalt recognises the voice of Romeo and wants a sword to kill him: He calls Romeo a "Peasant" (Divine Order) who wants to trouble the solemnity (Festlichkeiten). Tybalt wants to kill Romeo in the name of his familty (family conflict) and he says that it will be not a sin
- Tybalt call Romeo as a villain (Tybalt = evil charakter)
- Capulet respects Romeo as a "portly" and well-behaved man: He does not want that he will be insult in his house (Host-Guest-Right)
- Tybalt does not accept it; But Capulet says that he is the boss and he scars if there will be chaos (divine order)
- Tybalt want to bring respect for the family (family conflict)
- Capulet says that Tybalt should shut up and he shamed Tybalt by calling the guests: In addition he repeats the words light (light motive)
- Tybalt says that the rage make his body tremble (zittern) (Metaphor: his body tremble (Tybalt gets aggressiv)); Tybalt says that Romeo's visit sees sweet but it will become bitter (Opposing words: sweet - bitter; Foreshadowing: Revenge of Tybalt)
- Then there starts an another sonnet:
- Speaker: Romeo and Juliet
- Topic: First talking between Romeo and Juliet
- Devices: Analysis of the Sonnet:
- ROMEO: "If I profane with my unworthiest hand this holy shrine" (Opposing words: unworthiest hand - holy shrine; Religious motive: holy shrine (she is very holy and important)
- "the gentle sin is this: My lips, two blushing pilgrims, ready stand to smooth that rough touch with a tender kiss" (Comparison: lips with pilgrims; religious motives: pilgrims; Metaphor: Romeo is ready to clear the touching sin of her by a kiss)
- JULIET: "Good pilgrim, you do wrong your hand too much" (Religious motive: pilgrim; Opposing phrases: Unworthiest hand - do wrong with your hand (Romeo's hand is more worth))
- "Which mannerly devotion shows in this" (Choice of words: devotion (Hingabe))
- "For saints have hands that pilgrims' hands do touch, and palm to palm is holy palmers' kiss" (Religious motives: saints, pilgrims, palmers; Repetition: pilgrim; Metaphor: Romeo is only allowed to touch the saints (Juliet); Wordplay/pun: palm (Handfläche) - palmer (Pilger))
- ROMEO: "Have not saints lips, and holy palmers too?" (Rhetorical question: He does not accept only the touching he wants more)
- JULIET: "Ay, pilgrim, lips that they must use in prayer" (Imaginery: She approve it but she says that the lips of the pilgrims are only allowed to pray)
- ROMEO: "O, then, dear saint, let lips do what hands do. They pray; grant thou, lest faith turn to despair" (Comparison: Lips should do the same as the hands (touching); Imaginery: If you pray to god, the hands will touch each other; but also the lips)
- COUPLET:
- "Saints do not move, though grant for prayers' sake" (Imaginery: Saints can't move and so she can't kiss him)
- "Then move not, while my prayer's effect I take" (Imaginery: She should not move because he will take the kiss to her)
- END OF THE SONNET
- ROMEO: "Thus from my lips, by thine, my sin is purged" (Imaginery: He gives his sin to Juliet.)
- JULIET: "Then have my lips the sin that they have took" (She accept the sin)
- ROMEO: "Sin from thy lips? O trespass sweetly urged! Give me my sin again" (Metaphor: Romeo does not want that his sin is on the lips of Julia, because her sweetness is to good for this sin. So he take his sin back)
- JULIET: You kiss by th' book (Comparison: You kissed like you studied it)
- The Nurse says that Juliet's mother want to speak with her and the mother of Juliet is a Captulet.
- After Romeo hear it he says "My life is my foe's debt" (Imaginery: Hif life is in the hands of his enemies.)
- Benvolio says "The sport is at the best" (Saying: When things are the most fun is the best time to leave.)
Act II
Prologue
- Sonett:
- Speaker: Chorus
- Topic: Romeo does not love Rosaline more; Juliet is more beautiful: They love each other: But they are still familiy enemies, but both have no chance to meet each other; Loves give them power and time will bring the chance: but there is still danger
- Devices: comparison, repetition
- The Sonett sums up the Act I.
- Analysis of the Sonett:
- Romeos old feelings ("old desire") die (personification: "old desire doth"; imaginery: "in his death-bed lie").
- New feelings ("young affection") take the "heir"(Erbe) of the old love (personification: "young affection gapes"; metaphor: "to be his heir"; opposing words: young - old)
- Romeo was ready to die for Rosaline's love (personification: "love groaned for and would die"; metaphor: "That fair for which love groaned for and would die" (Romeo was ready to die for his love)
- "Tender" (zarte) Juliet is more beautiful than the old love (Comparison: Juliet is more beautiful than Rosaline)
- Now someone loves Romeo and he is in love again (Opposing phrase: "Beloved Romeo" - (Rosaline did not love him))
- The Chorus compares the love between Romeo and Juliet as "bewitched" (verzaubert) "by the charm of looks" (Simile: The love is bewitched by the good looking of both love partners; Imaginery: bewitched; magic motive)
- But Romeo must do his love speeches to someone who is supposed (gezwungen) to be his foe (Feind) (Familiy conflict; oxymoron: love - foe)
- Juliet is hooked by someone she should fear (Metaphor: "she steal love's sweet bait" (It means that she loved him, although he is her enemy); Imaginery: "fearful hooks"; familiy conflict)
- "Being held a foe" (Romeo is a enemy to her) (Repetition: foe)
- "he may not have access to breath such vows as lovers use to swear" (he is not allowed to speak normally with her) (Imaginery: "access to breath" (He is not allowed to talk with her); Metaphor: "to breath such vows as lovers use to swear" (Romeo and Juliet can not talk normally as normal love partners)
- "And she as much in love" (Comparison: She is much in love as Romeo)
- "her means much less to meet her new beloved anywhere" (Opposing Phrase: She is not ready to meet Romeo (love - ready to start something for the love)
- "But passion lends them power, time means, to meet" (Personification: "passion lends them power" (love gives them power); choice of words: passion - love; metaphor: "time means to meet" (time will bring them the chance)
- "Tempering extremities with extreme sweet" (Personification: The danger will be sweetening by their love)
1. Scene
- Romeo wants to find Juliet, but he hides out in the garden, because Benvolio and Mercutio come
- Mercutio calls for Romeo as Romeo would be a ghost. He laughs about the love ideals like Venus or the "blind son Cupid (amor) who shot arrows"; he calls for Rosaline as she would be a ghost but he talks about her lips, eyes and her sexual region: so he laughs about her to laugh about romeo's feeling to her; but Romeo does not appear and so they go away
- Benvolio says that Mercutio will make Romeo angry; but Mercutio says that he says only the name of Romeo's love to lure him out (rauslocken) of the darkness
- Benvolio knows that Romeo is in the near, but he hides in the dark: he says that Romeo's love is blind (Blind Cupid who shot the love arrows) and so he belongs to the dark night
- Mercutio laughs about Romeo, because he says that Romeo sits under a medlar tree (the fruits of a medlar tree look like female genitals) and he hopes that Rosaline would be one of these fruits
- Mercutio laughs more about Romeo and says that he wish that he has a arse (Po) to pop (entjungern) it. (Sexual jokes of Mercutio)
- Sexual language of Mercutio:
- demesnes (Landbesitz) - sexual regions
- spirit (Geist) - Semen (Samen)
- circle (Magischer Kreis) - Vagina
- Stand (Geisterbeschwörung) - Sexual erection
- Down (Verschwinden des Geistes) - End of sexual intercourse (Sexualverkehr)
- medlar (apple-like fruit) - female sexual organ
- open-arse (slang for the fruits) - female sexual organ
2. Scene
- Romeo says "He jests at scars that never felt a wound." and it means that Mercutio can make jokes about love because Mercutio never feels the pain of love.
- After Romeo sees Juliet on the balcony he says that she is the sun (light) and she kills the jealous moon (darkness)
- Romeo personificates the moon that it is jealous to Juliet, because she is more beautiful (imaginery); Juliet transforms light into the darkness
- Romeo compares Juliet to the stars that she is stronger than the light of the stars (like daylight is stronger than a lamp - simile!)
- Her eyes are so bright that the birds will think it is morning and so they sing in the darkness.
- Romeo wishes that he will be the gloves of Juliet, because then he could touch her cheek (Wange) (Imaginery)
- Romeo compares Juliet to a bright (light) angel (divine order!) - she shined above Romeo (divine order - light)
- Romes uses metaphor that Juliet is an angel and she will bring love for the mortal mans (divine order)
- Juliet asks why Romeo is Romeo (family identity) - she wants that he will change his name - and if he does not want to change his name he has to swear his love to her and so she will forget that she is a Capulet (family identity/conflict)
- Juliet loves Romeo but his name is her enemy (family conflict) - she asks whats special to be a Montague (personification/family conflict) - comparison/imaginery (roses would be smell the same if they have an other name)
- Juliet says that Romeo would be perfect if his name would be an other name (family conflict)
- Romeo want to change his name if Juliet gives her love, in addition Romeo want to be a new Romeo (familiy conflict,love motive)
- Juliet says that Romeo hides in the darkness and he should appear, but he does not accept to be called a Montagnue (family conflict)
- Juliet can not understand who Romeo climbs up the walls and if he would be discovered they will kill him (family conflict) - but he says that love can not be stopped (love motive) and the bright wings of love helped him (angel motive/light/love motives) - a man do many things if he is in love (love motive)
- Juliet repeats that if he will be discovered than they will kill him (familiy conflict)
- Romeo uses imaginery: one bad look of Juliet is worse than 20 mans with swords (love motive/imaginery/comparison)
- The darkness will hide Romeo from the swordmans - he is ready to be killed if Juliet does not love him (love motive)
- Juliet says that Romeo can not see her face in the dark (mask of night) - she is not quiet sure if Romeo really loves her - Jove (God of Jupiter) laughs about lovers when the lie each other (imaginery) - she is confused and thinks that Romeo wants only to get her (love motive)
- Romeo swears his love in the name of the moon (darkness/imaginery) but Juliet does not accept it because the moon changes his position always (heliocentric theory) - she does not want that Romeo swear but she sees in Romeo an idol or god which she worship (Anbetung) (love motive)
- Juliet thinks that the love between Romeo and her is infinite and deep (love motive)
- Juliet goes away and Romeo is depressed because she is away and he think this is only a dream in the night (Darkness)
- Juliet is ready to love Romeo if he is ready to marry him (love motive/ideal love) and she is ready to follow him all over the world (imaginery)
- Romeo compares the leaving of Juliet to a schoolboy: Schoolboy is sad if he leave his books; the lover is sad if he leaves the loveness (love motive/comparison)
- Juliet wants to see him again and she wants to call Romeo back like he is a falcon (comparison/metaphor); she is trapped in the family house (family conflict); she compares her sadness to the mythical woman Echo, which repeats a name in sadness (love motive/comparison)
