romeo and juliet play script and modern definition of accounting

Romeo, the bold lover, kicks off the sonnet with a sly conflation of physical and religious language. We are meant to take them and their love seriously. Their love is not limited to physical attraction – it transcends into the realms of agape. This religious language also attests to the seriousness of their relationship. Our young lovers are seething with physical desire and lust whilst simultaneously discussing their religious concerns. You get two semantic fields with the vocabulary of the body (hand, lips, kiss, palm et cetera) meeting the vocabulary of religion (holy, shrine, sin, Pilgrims, saints, devotion et cetera). The conflict in this sonnet is basically between sex and religion – the body and the spirit.

The fact that the sonnet so naturally fits into the dialogue of the scene highlights just how compatible these two are – they speak in shared verse, complementing each other to create a fixed meter and rhyme scheme. Why? Well, what we get is a gradual intermingling of speech, a conversational to-and-fro that culminates with two people perfectly in sync, speaking in a shared rhyming couplet. Romeo takes the lead with the first quatrain, Juliet the second, they share the third (Romeo taking three lines and Juliet one) and the final couplet is split evenly between the two. As you know, the sonnet is traditionally associated with love, so it’s no surprise that Shakespeare chose this form to detail the first exchange of words between our young lovers. Shakespeare goes to pains to write the encounter as a sonnet. This is the first meeting between Romeo and Juliet at the Capulet ball. Easy to miss when seen/ heard and even quite subtle when read. The 14 lines in question form a sonnet, a perfect Shakespearean sonnet in fact, with three ABAB quatrains and a rhyming couplet at the end.

Then move not, while my prayer’s effect I take. Saints do not move, though grant for prayers’ sake.

They pray, grant thou, lest faith turn to despair. O, then, dear saint, let lips do what hands do

Have not saints lips, and holy palmers too?Īy, pilgrim, lips that they must use in prayer. Good pilgrim, you do wrong your hand too much,įor saints have hands that pilgrims’ hands do touch, To smooth that rough touch with a tender kiss. My lips, two blushing pilgrims, ready stand This holy shrine, the gentle fine is this: Romeo and Juliet’s first kiss, Act One, Scene Four

Romeo and juliet play script and modern definition of accounting