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A 5 page paper which compares and contrasts how the figurative language conjures sexual images that reflect the couples’ feelings for each other. No additional sources are used.
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and Juliet. It is the story of the love between members of two feuding families, teenagers who are experiencing overwhelming sexual feelings for the first time. In apparent
stark contrast are Petruchio and Katherina, the older protagonists of the Bards comedy, The Taming of the Shrew. Their coupling was an arranged one so that Baptista Minola can
finally marry off his tart-tongued eldest daughter, Katherina, whose shrewish reputation is well-known and deserved. In both plays, Shakespeare masterfully employs figurative language to set the appropriate sexual stage.
For Romeo and Juliet, their declarations of love are fervent and reflect the ardor of a first love. However, the bantering between Petruchio and Katherina more closely resembles
a battle of the sexes, but also serves to emphasize the combustible sexual tension that is constantly bubbling to the boiling point for this highly-charged couple. When Romeo Montague meets
Juliet Capulet at a costume party, it is, for him, love at first sight. The solar, lunar, and celestial imagery that is featured throughout Romeo and Juliet accentuates the
magical qualities of first love. A smitten Romeo muses during the famous balcony scene, "He jests at scars that never felt a wound. / But, soft! what light through
yonder window breaks? / It is the east, and Juliet is the sun. Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon, / Who is already sick and pale with
grief, / That thou her maid art far more fair than she; / Be not her naid, since she is envious; / Her vestal livery is but sick and green
/ And none but fools do wear it; cast if off. / It is my lady, O, it is my love! / O, that she knew she were! / She
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