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Romeo and Juliet (Oxymoron) by William Shakespeare **ROMEO:** If I profane with my unworthiest hand This holy shrine, the gentle fine is this: My lips, two blushing pilgrims, ready stand To smooth that rough touch with a tender kiss. Good pilgrim, you do wrong your hand too much, Which mannerly devotion shows in this; For saints have hands that pilgrims' hands do touch, And palm to palm is holy palmers' kiss. Have not saints lips, and holy palmers too? Ay, pilgrim, lips that they must use in prayer. O, then, dear saint, let lips do what hands do; They pray, grant thou, lest faith turn to despair. Saints do not move, though grant for prayers' sake. Then move not, while my prayer's effect I take. Thus from my lips, by yours, my sin is purged. Then have my lips the sin that they have took. Sin from thy lips? O trespass sweetly urged! Give me my sin again. You kiss by the book. Madam, your mother craves a word with you. What is her mother? Marry, bachelor, Her mother is the lady of the house, And a good lady, and a wise and virtuous I nursed her daughter, that you talk'd withal; I tell you, he that can lay hold of her Shall have the chinks. Is she a Capulet? O dear account! my life is my foe's debt. Away, begone; the sport is at the best. Ay, so I fear; the more is my unrest. Nay, gentlemen, prepare not to be gone; We have a trifling foolish banquet towards. Is it e'en so? why, then, I thank you all I thank you, honest gentlemen; good night. More torches here! Come on then, let's to bed. Ah, sirrah, by my fay, it waxes late: I'll to my rest. JULIET:** Come hither, nurse. What is yond gentleman? The son and heir of old Tiberio. What's he that now is going out of door? Marry, that, I think, be young Petrucio. What's he that follows there, that would not dance? I know not. Go ask his name: if he be married. My grave is like to be my wedding bed. His name is Romeo, and a Montague; The only son of your great enemy. **My only love sprung from my only hate! **  **Too early seen unknown, and known too late!** Prodigious birth of love it is to me, That I must love a loathed enemy. What's this? what's this? A rhyme I learn'd even now Of one I danced withal. [One calls within 'Juliet.'] Anon, anon! Come, let's away; the strangers all are gone.  Analysis The play Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare is an amazing love story. William Shakespeare uses oxymoron's to emphasize the mixed emotions Juliet feels about Romeo. Juliet doesn't realize that the man she is deathly in love with is her worst enemy. " My only love sprung from my only hate! Too early seen unknown, and known too late! Prodigious birth of love it is to me,That I must love a loathed enemy,"(act1,scene V). The oxymoron's in this quote describe what Juliet felt when she found out that man she was in love with was Romeo, a Montague, an enemy, and a murderer.Their love was forbidden, no one could know the truth it had to be kept secret. Juliet's love and hate for Romeo just kept growing as the play went on. The more she hated him the more she loved him, Shakespeare's use of oxymoron's allowed the theme of the play to be clear through Juliet's words.
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D. Arevalo   “Romeo & Juliet” Feb.2009 http://www.painterilya.com/artworks/romeo&juliet1.jpg. <span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> “Romeo and Juliet poster”Feb.2009 http://imagecache2.allposters.com/images/pic/EUR/1700-109~Romeo-and-Juliet-Posters.jpg.

"Romeo and Juliet: Act 1, Scene 5." __Shakespeare Navigator__. 4 Feb. 2009 http://www.clicknotes.com/romeo/T15.html.

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