Romeo is hiding from Benvolio and Mercutio in the Capulet’s garden. When he sees her coming out onto her balcony, he again uses metaphors to discuss her beauty, comparing her to the sun. “But soft! What light through yonder window breaks?/ It is the east, and Juliet is the sun.” (II, ii, 2-3) Romeo and Juliet express their love for each other in the famous balcony scene. There is also much imagery used here in the Light theme. Romeo compares Juliet to different kinds of light: “It is the east and Juliet is the sun!” (II, ii, 3), sunlight; “The brightness of her cheek would shame those stars/ As daylight doth a lamp,” (II, ii, 20-21), daylight; and “O speak again bright angel,” (II, ii, 26), the bright light that surrounds an angel. Romeo also hints at their Fate again here: “My life were better ended by their hate/ Than death proroguèd, wanting of thy love.” (II, ii, 77-78) They decide to get married the next day.
Shakespeare uses personification in the opening of scene three when Friar Laurence states “The grey-eyed morn smiles on the frowning night.” (II, iii, 1) Romeo comes to tell Friar Laurence of his love for Juliet and that he wants the Friar to marry them tomorrow. The Friar agrees because it might end the feud between the two families.
Mercutio and Benvolio discuss Romeo’s whereabouts of the previous night and Tybalt’s challenge to the house of Montague. Romeo comes in and the three exchange jokes with each other. Shakespeare often used base humour to keep the lower class of the audience entertained as well. Then Juliet’s nurse comes to speak to Romeo about Juliet. Romeo sends Juliet a message through the nurse to get her to meet him at Friar Laurence’s cell tomorrow. The nurse delivers Romeo’s message to Juliet, and the next day they meet there and are married. But just before Juliet arrives at the Friar’s cell, he foreshadows the end of the story again by stating, “These violent delights have violent ends.” (II, vi, 9)
