Romeo Is Art at Its Best

problem and Oxymoron in Romeo and Juliet

Paradox is a statement that at first glance appears to contradict itself, except actually holds a deeper truth.
Oxymoron is a fusing of opposite or contradictory words to aim a enigma in a few words.

Paradox Example: The child is father of the man. (William Wordsworth) At first glance, the bringing close together appears to contradict itself because fathers father children, not the other way around. However, it is whizzs childhood experiences that create who one is as an adult, so in a way, the child is father of the man.

Examples of Oxymorons:


open secret
larger half
clearly confused
act naturally
alone together
Hells Angels
found missing
liquid gas
thunderous silence
uprightly funny
living dead
Microsoft Works
military intelligence
jumbo shrimp
Advanced BASIC
tragical comedy
unbiased opinion
virtual reality
definite maybe
original copies
pretty ugly
identical difference
plastic glasses
almost exactly
constant variable
even odds
minor crisis
dead life
genuine imitation
exact estimate
only choice
freezer burn
working holiday
rolled stop


In the following lines from the play, identify any oxymorons and explain the paradox in each line.





1) Heres much to do with hatred, but more with love/ Why, then, O brawling love, O winning hate,/ Oh anything of nothing first create/ O heavy lightness, serious vanity/ Misshapen chaos of well-seeming forms/ Feather of lead, bright smoke, dusty fire, sick health/ Still-waking sleep, that is not what it is!/ This love I incur that feel no love in this. (Romeo, I,i)

2. What is it else? a betise most discreet,/ A choking gall, and a preserving sweet. (Romeo, I,i)

3. Good night, true(p) night! Parting is such sweet sorrow/That I shall say goodnight till it be morrow. (Juliet, II, ii)

4. Not proud you have, but thankful that you have/Proud can I never be of what I hate,/ But thankful even for hate that is meant love. (Juliet III, v)

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