Romeo And Juliet Rhetorical Analysis

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Most teens need a good role model in their life and a trusted adult to talk to about important situations. Just like in Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, Romeo gets to have Friar Lawrence there for him in important situations. Romeo does not feel comfortable talking to his family about serious things, so he goes to a trusted adult to talk to. Through the use of repetition of allusion, foreshadowing to the end of Romeo’s life, and personification of Romeo’s feelings, Shakespeare shows that Romeo and Friar Lawrence have a relationship full of love, friendship, and trust. Shakespeare uses repetition of allusion about Saint Francis, Jesus, and Mary to convey the idea that Friar Lawrence and Romeo have a relationship with friendship, love, and trust. Romeo went to Friar Lawrence’s cell to ask him if he would marry him and Juliet. Romeo arrived to the cell very cheerfully because he was with Juliet the night before. Friar Lawrence did not know about Romeo and Juliet’s love yet and was very shocked to hear …show more content…

Friends joke around with each other a lot, and also get mad over stupid things with each other too. An example of this is when Friar got mad at Romeo for crying so much about Rosaline, just to go and fall in love with a different girl that night. The Friar says to Romeo, “How much salt water thrown away in waste, to season love, that of it doth not taste!” (2.3.73-74). He personifies all of the tears going to waste, meaning he cried for no reason. This quote shows how the Friar is angry that Romeo cried, and cried, and cried about Rosaline; everyone had to listen to him weep around about her. And all of Romeo’s crying ended in Romeo asking the Friar to marry him to another girl. A lot of friends fight like this over stupid things, but they still love each other enough to move on in their

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