One
place in s play where reality is strongly contrasted to appearance comes in act 3, scene 2
whenlearns that her belovedhas killed her cousin . When the Nurse enters, devastated with grief
over a killing in the street, Juliet first assumes that Romeo has been killed. Even when the
Nurse tells her it is Tybalt who died, she remains ignorant of the exact circumstances, which
causes her to believe the worst. Not only does Juliet blame Romeo for this terrible act, but she
concludes as well that he has been deceiving her all along: he must be a bad person wearing a
good mask. She employs numerous figures of speech to emphasize this incongruity, comparing him
such things as a snake with the face of a flower and a book with vile content and a beautiful
cover.
O serpent heart, hid with a flowering
face!Did ever dragon keep so fair a cave?
Beautiful
tyrant! fiend angelical!Dove-feather'd raven! wolvish-ravening
lamb!...Was ever book containing such vile...
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