Light and dark in Romeo and Juliet

Juliet is the sun, the stars, a torch. Love happens at night. Morning is the enemy.

The quotes

6 quotes, in the order they happen.

Did my heart love till now? Forswear it, sight! For I ne'er saw true beauty till this night.

Romeo · Act 1, Scene 5 · love · light and dark · youth

He sees Juliet and forgets Rosaline in one line. Love at first sight, and very fast.

O, she doth teach the torches to burn bright!

Romeo · Act 1, Scene 5 · light and dark · love

Juliet is brighter than the torches. Romeo talks about her as light all through the play.

But soft, what light through yonder window breaks? It is the east, and Juliet is the sun!

Romeo · Act 2, Scene 2 · light and dark · love

Juliet at her window. To Romeo she is the sun rising.

Gallop apace, you fiery-footed steeds

Juliet · Act 3, Scene 2 · time · love · light and dark

Juliet tells the sun's horses to hurry so night will come and Romeo with it.

Come gentle night, come loving black-brow'd night, Give me my Romeo

Juliet · Act 3, Scene 2 · love · light and dark · death

Juliet wants the dark. Night is where love happens in this play, and where death does.

It was the lark, the herald of the morn, No nightingale

Romeo · Act 3, Scene 5 · time · light and dark · love

Morning has come. Romeo must leave or die. Juliet wants it to still be night.