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Question: Romeo and juliet dark/light!?
i'm writing an essay about the dark/light motif used through out romeo and juliet!. i need 2 more quotes about how juliet is " the light in romeo's life!." i already have " she doth teach the torches to burn bright," and the " it is the east and juliet is the sun!."

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I was always a huge fan of this text, also from the balcony scene (act 2 scene 2) Romeo says:
"What if her eyes were there, they in her head!?
The brightness of her cheek would shame those stars
As daylight doth a lamp; her eyes in heaven
Would through the airy region stream so bright
That birds would sing and think it were not night!."

You already have "she doth teach the torches" but what about the image that follows it!? "It seems she hangs upon the cheek of night/ Like a rich jewel in an Ethiope's ear;/
Beauty too rich for use, for earth too dear!" He's saying she is as bright as a diamond earring against the skin of somone from Ethiopia!. (the only time in Shakespeare that he is not calling someone an "Ethipoe" as an insult, which he does elsewhere!.

I can't think of any other instances where he compares her to light, but when they are leaving each other, there is a whole scene of them "arguing" about whether it is still night or is the sky turing light!. So after all this talk of Juliet as light, Shakespeare turns it on its head, and light becomes the enemy!. (Romeo is banished and must leave before daybreak to not get caught!.)
Juliet says: "O, now be gone; more light and light it grows!."
and Romeo replies: "More light and light; more dark and dark our woes!"

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I hadnt thoght about this, but it seems that the great love scenes take place at night/in the dark - the party, the balcony scene, the scene before dawn in Juliets bedroom, and the death scene!. Is the love between them a light in the darkness!.!.!.!?Www@QuestionHome@Com