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In at least 150 words, identify a motif from Romeo and Juliet and then explain what it means and how it supports the theme.

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Motifs': Light Dark Imagery.



One of the play's most steady visual themes is the difference amongst light and dull, regularly as far as night/day symbolism. This difference isn't given a specific figurative significance—light isn't generally great, and dull isn't generally malicious. In actuality, light and dull are by and large used to give a tangible difference and to indicate restricted choices. One of the more essential occasions of this theme is Romeo's extensive contemplation on the sun and the moon amid the overhang scene, in which Juliet, allegorically portrayed as the sun, is viewed as banishing the "desirous moon" and changing the night into day (2.1.46). A comparable obscuring of night and day happens in the early morning hours after the sweethearts' solitary night together. Romeo, compelled to leave for banish toward the beginning of the day, and Juliet, not needing him to abandon her room, both attempt to imagine that it is still night, and that the light is really murkiness: "All the more light and light, more dull and dim our misfortunes" (3.5.36).





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