Blood Imagery

   

      Blood imagery is used throughout Romeo and Juliet to show and depict the image that is happening in the story. It is described in a way to give the reader a perfect image of what is happening. The quote “A piteous core, a bloody piteous cores” (Shakespeare, III, ii, 54) is talking about the bloody corpse. Making the reader well aware that the body of Tybalt is dead and bloody. Also in the quote “Pale, pale as ashes, all bedaub''d in blood.” (Shakespeare, III, ii, 55) it is saying that the body was pale and covered in blood also giving a visual of how the body would of looked. The last blood imagery quote is “All in gore blood; I sounded at the site” (Shakespeare, III, ii, 56) is talking about how the body was all dried of blood and it almost made the nurse faint. The three quotes all said by the nurse are used to picture the dead bloody bodies and make the audience know what they're reading about and what should of been seen. This develops the theme of setting because the reader's are now knowing what the dead bodies did look like and what the nurse had to see. It also helps develop plot because the reader's now aware of how severe the fight between the boys was and how it has now begun into a fight between Juliet and the nurse.

  

Lightness Imagery

 Light and Darkness Imagery     
       Lightness and Darkness imagery is used in Romeo and Juliet when it is quoted that "And not impute this yielding to light love, Which by dark night hath so discovered"(Shakespeare, II, ii, 105-106) and also "A thousand times the worse, to want thy light."(Shakespeare, II, ii, 155). Lightness and darkness imagery are used in Romeo and Juliet to represent Juliet who is the light and Romeo who is darkness. Another quote that shows light imagery is “ Up to the ears. Come, we burn daylight, ho!” (Shakespeare, I, iv, 43). The lightness imagery and darkness imagery develop many things like character and setting. The character's of Romeo and Juliet become developed when their imagery is reflected. Also it helps setting because it gives you a sense of what the character views, if they view things in a positive or negative way. Positive being the light imagery and darkness being negative view.

Darkness Imagery