Romeo and Juliet Project #3
A collage is a piece of art where different photos from magazines or drawings are pasted on one place to express a certain idea. We chose to do a collage for our English project because we had confidence that we could convey our thoughts and concept through making a collage. Each piece of drawing that is used for our collage is a drawing from our efforts. Each piece of drawing conveys an important setting, theme, or symbolism of the story of Romeo and Juliet. Soon, we will explain about what each of those idea conveys.
By looking at our collage, one would know that it is about two lovers that we are trying to show. If they had read Romeo and Juliet before, then they would realize that it is Romeo and Juliet because all of the symbols on the collage point specifically to Romeo and Juliet and nothing else. All of the ornaments that make the story itself is all on the collage. We hoped to transfer our feelings of how we imagined and read Romeo and Juliet onto this collage and to many other people who will see this art piece.
The two faces in the background is there to show the incomparable hatred between the Montagues and the Capulets. As the story shows in the beginning, the two families are enemies from long time ago. They try to cause the other family into trouble by provoking them. The setting where the two families hate each other, causes conflict to Romeo and Juliet because they know that the elders will deny the fact that their they are in love.
The two identical crown represents the equalness of power between the two family. Neither of the family is stronger than the other, so the fight continues. They have equal power and influence over other, so they can’t overtake the other family easily. Also, since starting fights are illegal, it is more harder. The unknown cover is basically representing that someone is hiding. Since the two families are enemies, Romeo and Juliet can’t love each other publically. Also, Romeo had to hide from others because he killed Tybalt. So the unknown cover represents Romeo’s hiding and the love that has to be hidden under cover.
The marrying couple represents the secret marriage between Romeo and Juliet. They knew that the elders won’t agree on their marriage, so they had to marry secretly. However, even though it had to be secret, they still loved each other very much. The drawing where Romeo and Juliet is stretching out their arms towards each other symbolizes the incomparable distance. The distance is formed by the hatred between two families. It also represents the scene where Romeo and Juliet promises each other their love in the orchard.
The two swords represents the sword fighting in the story. The most devastating sword fight for Romeo was the fight with Tybalt. Romeo kills Tybalt and he gets banished from the country, which cause the potion plan to begin. The letter represents the failed delivery of the letter that explains the potion plan that Juliet and Friar Laurence had set up. The result of failed delivery caused the death of Juliet and Romeo. If the letter had been delivered right, the whole chaotic mess wouldn’t have occurred.
The heart on fire represents the everlasting love between Romeo and Juliet. In the end, Romeo killed himself because he thought Juliet was dead, and Juliet killed herself because Romeo was dead. They both ended their lives because they didn’t want to live without each other. We represented this love with the drawing of the heart on fire.
The tomb represents the ending scene for Romeo and Juliet. The tomb is the place where they lastly see each other and also where they end their lives. The tomb represents the ending of two couple’s life, and also represents a new beginning for the two families. Through this tragic ending, the two families understand that there is no point of fighting. It also represents the start of new relationship between the Montagues and the Capulets.
“ J = Wilt thou be gone? It is not yet near day. It was the nightingale and not the lark that pierced the fearful hollow of thine ear. Nightly she sings on yond pond pomegranate tree. Believe me, love, it was the nightingale.
R = It was the lark, the herald of the morn, no nightingale. Look, love, what envious streaks do lace the severing clouds in yonder east. Night’s candles are burnt out, and jocund day stands tiptoe on the misty mountain tops. I must be gone and live, or stay and die. (Act 3 scene 5 line 1-11)”
Romeo and Juliet is laying on the bed, as they have spent the night together in happiness. As the day brightens, their happiness soon comes to an end, and we can see the comparison Romeo and Juliet uses on the lark and nightingale as if to have a hope that night isn’t at all there yet. Nightingale, as we can see in the name, is a bird where most of its activities are done during the night. lark is the total opposite of the nightingale and lives in the day, when the sun is out. Juliet opens her eyes and Romeo is getting ready to leave, and Juliet asks him to stay. She says that the bird chirping is the nightingale and the morning is not here yet. But Romeo refuses, and says that, even if he does not want to admit, the bird that is chirping is the lark, and that he has to leave or he’ll die.
“There is thy gold - worse poison to men’s souls, doing more murder in this loathsome world than these poor compounds that thou mayst sell. I sell thee poison, thou hast sold me non. Farewell, buy food, and get thyself in flesh. Come cordial, and not poison, go with me to Juliet’s grave, for there I must use thee ( Act 5 scene 1 line 80-86)”
In this scene Romeo has just bought a bottle of poison from the apothecary. He tries to convince the seller that the potion he sold to Romeo is not poison and what Romeo had given him is the actual poison that does more harm. The poison Romeo has just bought will bring demise to Romeo and death to his Juliet. The other time when poison was used was when Juliet falls asleep into a fake death. Both of the poison is brought into the story by misunderstanding and the afterwards brings demise to the lovers. The moment they drink the poison was for their death, even for Juliet. Romeo, who was her life, dies while she is in sleep and she follows him right after.
"Then have my lips the sin that they have took. (Act 1 scene 5 line 106)"
This quote goes together with the mask as a symbolism. The mask represents two things. The first one was the love that started without even looking into their true faces. Even though Juliet’s pretty face was the reason to Romeo falling in love with her, Juliet loved Romeo when he was wearing his mask and allowed him to kiss her. The mask also represents the masquerade where Romeo and Juliet first met each other.
The shackle is an imaginary shackle that that is first placed on Romeo and Juliet when they were born. The shackle is the idea that grew inside of them as they spent their lives with their parents as a Montague and Capulet. The shackle is the idea of hating each other. While other characters are captured by this shackles until the point they throw away their lives for it, Romeo and Juliet find the key, which is love, and break free of these shackles.
Dead person literally represents all the characters that meet their doom in the story. Every single person who dies in this story brings a significant change to the story’s flow or a certain character’s emotion that lead them into taking dangerous actions. There are a total of 6 people who die in Romeo and Juliet. Lady Montague, Paris, Romeo, Juliet, Mercutio, and Tybalt dies in the story and they all contribute a shift in the story.
