Romeo+and+Juliet+Component+(Sarah+B)

a. How does your component reflect Romeo's mental state? b. How does it relate to the larger themes of the play? c. How does it contribute to the effect of Romeo's final words?

Component: Personification

During Act 5 Scene 3, the final scene of the book, Romeo uses personification to make Death a more real character. I think that by doing this, Romeo is able to point his anger at a more direct object, showing his anger in a more obvious way. He obviously hates Death because it has “sucked the honey of thy (Juliet) breath” (Line 92). I think that a big theme portrayed in __Romeo and Julie__t is actually death itself. There are so many characters dying tragically for no cause at all, but the deaths lead an event to another. My personifing death, it makes the theme more //real// and really allows the reader to understand the concept of death and how it has controlled the fate, another major theme of the book, of many characters in many ways. When Death supposedly took Juliet's life, Romeo's fate was lead to Death, by Death! Personification allowed Romeo to express and direct his anger at Death in a way that we could connect to it and really understand the character in more depth. It showed us what he was thinking at the time, and how the factor Death contributed and lead to his hown suicide.