Romeo and Juliet Favorite Quote

          For this post I decided to focus on a very specific quotation in the play. This quotation is in Act 1, Scene 2, Lines 99-100. The quote is: "One fairer than my love? The all-seeing sun/Ne'er saw her match since first the world begun." This quote really caught my eye when I was reading the play specifically because of the message behind the quote. First he says, "One fairer than my love?" implying that there is no one prettier than her, which is really important, and it's sort of a hyperbole, because........ Well, he just said that there is no one prettier than her. That's pretty big.

          Then he says, "The all seeing sun/Ne'er saw her match since first the world begun." What he's saying is that even the sun, if it could see, never saw anyone more beautiful than her since the world started. This was the part of the quote that I really like, because first of all, it is a really strong quote, and it has personification and a hyperbole in it. The sentence is really strong because at first he said that there is no one prettier than her in the sentence before, and now he's saying that even the sun, that can see everything, has never seen anyone prettier. The sun is huge and is above the earth, and if it could see it could probably see everything, so saying that no one is prettier than her out of everyone that the sun has seen is super huge, because the sun would be able to see a lot of people, and she would have to be incredibly beautiful to beat everyone else.

          This last sentence has two literary devices, personification and hyperbole. The personification is when he says: "The all seeing sun/Ne'er saw....." he's saying that the sun can see and can see everything, which is personification, because the sun is a thing and can't really see, much less everything, so it's given human traits. The hyperbole is in the whole line, in fact, the whole quote, because he's first saying that no one's prettier than her, and then he's saying that the sun has never seen anyone prettier than her since the world begun. This is supported by how strong the quote is, which I explained in the previous paragraph. It's a hyperbole because it's exaggerated a lot.

          The basis of this quote is saying how beautiful she is, and it's so exaggerated and is such a powerful quote that it really caught my attention. I thought this quote was really important, because of how strong it is, and the massive amount of literary devices in just two sentences.