In the article Elinor Fuchs’s Visit to a Small Planet: Some
Questions to Ask a Play, the author explains what how pattern and Images
related to a play. In the play Romeo and
Juliet, it tells a family feud happened in a city called Verona between
family Montague and family Capulet. A romantic but sad ended love story happens
between children of these two families, Romeo and Juliet. Each scene in this
play follows a pattern and they all have their own images.
“We must take the assumption that
in the world of the play there are no accidents. Nothing occurs ‘by chance,’not
even chance”. If you carefully read the play Romeo and Juliet, you will see that this play follows a fixed
pattern. Pattern includes actions and time. For the action part, in the 1st
act of this play, it starts with a fight between these two families. When we
thing about this act, the writer places a fight scene in the very beginning of
this play is not just used to tell audience about the setting but also tells
the style of Act 1: full of fights and obstructions between our two main
characters. Compare with Act 2, which tells about the forbidden love of Romeo
and Juliet, Act 2 expresses a much more soft and romantic emotion. It shows how
two young people get to know each other and how they fall in love. As a
contrast, Act 3 starts with a fight scene again. This time, the conflict and
fight gets even more violent. Tybalt and Mercutio’s death makes this act gets
into a higher level. Then in Act 4, Juliet drinks the fake poison after asking forgiveness from her father. This act shows how loyal and steadfast their love is,
which also means this whole act is related to love again. Till now, we can find
a pattern from characters’ actions that this play shows an alternate emotion of
fights and love. Also, another unseparable part of Pattern is the Time. Looking
through the whole plat we can clearly separate love parts and fight parts that
both of the two fight parts happens in morning and all love stories happen at
night. In the balcony scene, Romeo climes up to Juliet’s balcony and tells his
love, Juliet responses: “ O, swear not by the moon, th’ inconstant moon, That
monthly changes in her circled orb, Lest that thy love prove likewise
variable”(2.2.108-110). For the two fight scenes, the first one refers to the lines
that Benvolio says: “Is the day so young?” “But new struck nine.”(1.1.150-151).
The other one is said also said by Benvolio: “And if we meet we shall not scape
a brawl, For now, these hot days, is the mad blood stirring”(3.1.3-4). The
reason why the author puts fights and love in to different time is because day
times and night times are used to express different emotion. For the day times,
hot summer days in Verona makes people’s blood stirring, which causes more
fight. Also, lots of people come out at day times so it is hard for our secret
lovers to see each other. For the night times, people stay at home, and the
night is quiet and mysterious. Lots of secret things happen at night, which
provide a perfect place for Romeo and Juliet express their love.
In this
whole play, it is separated into three images, beginning, climax, and ending. The
beginning tells the story that Romeo goes to his enemy’s ball and sees his
lover. Even though there are people trying to stop their love, they still
deeply fall in love with each other. For the middle image, there are lots of
changes happen. The image of the climax is chaotic. People’s death, Romeo being
banished, and propose from stranger all change every character’s attitude.
Especially Juliet, she realizes Romeo is not as brave and mature as he looks,
but she still chooses to stand on her husband’s side. In the last image, both
Romeo and Juliet died, so does Lady Montague and Paris. If the ending is a real
image, it must be an image of sun rises up from dark clouds. Everything is
clear, there is no more feud, and our star-cross’d lovers can finally be
together in their tomb. “For never was a story of more woe Than this of Juliet
and her Romeo.”(5.5.311-312)
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