Oxymoron in romeo and juliet?

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In act 1, scene 1 Romeo states "O brawling love! O loving hate! / O anything of nothing first create! / O heavy lightness, serious vanity! / Misshapen chaos of well-seeming forms! / Feather of lead, bright smoke, cold fire, sick health!"

Shakespeare chooses language that reflects youthful, idealized notions of romance. Romeo describes his state of mind through a series of oxymorons—setting contradictory words together—blending the joys of love with the emotional desolation of unrequited love: “O brawling love, O loving hate.” That he can express such extreme emotions for a woman he barely knows demonstrates both his immaturity and his potential for deeper love.

Oxymorons appear frequently in Romeo and Juliet. Perhaps the most famous oxymoron in the play is the one occurring in the last two words of this line: “Good-night, good-night! parting is such sweet sorrow (2. 2. 201). Sweet and sorrow mean completely opposite things, an oxymoron consists of two contradictory words occurring one after the other.

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