so fine That all the world will be in love with the night,And pay no worship to the garish sun(3.2.22-25).It seems that Juliet, unknowingly, is describing the future in a symbolic sense. Later in the play, after Romeo is banished from Verona for the slaying of Tybalt, he and Juliet exchange lines that are full of light imagery. As the dawn is approaching, Romeo describes the view, “Look, love, what envious streaks / Do lace the severing clouds in yonder east / Night’s candles are burnt out . . . ”(3.5.7-9). Romeo is telling Juliet with this line that the sun is coming up, which could be dangerous for him since he has been banished. However, Juliet seems to disclaim Romeo’s claim with her own saying, Yond light is not day-light, I know it, I;It is some meteor that the sun [exhaled] To be to thee this night a torch-bearerAnd light thee on thy way to Mantua(3.5.13-15).However, Juliet realizes that Romeo is right, so she sends him off. In the same scene Romeo uses more light and dark imagery when he says, “More light and light, more dark and dark / our woes!(3.5.36-37). Apparently, Romeo is saying that their love, light, will bring about their death, dark. Furthermore, Romeo’s words seem to indicate the “two” lovers by repeating the words light and dark two times each. Nevertheless, events are not the only aspect of the play that lightness and darkness seem to have significance.Feelings or emotions are described several times in the play through images of lightness and darkness. Upon Romeo’s first sight of his future wife he states, “O, she doth teach the torches to burn bright”(1.5.44). Romeo’s feelings about Juliet’s beauty are very well known by the reader or viewer. Later in the play, Romeo speaks some of the most well known words from the play, “But soft, what light through yonder window breaks / It is the east and Juliet is the sun”(...
