A metaphor is a hidden, implicit or implied comparison between two seemingly unrealized things. It is a figure of speech in which two strikingly different. Concepts or things are compared to one another based off a single commen characteristic.
Example: “He that hat the steering of my course. Direct my sail”
Romeo speaks these words just as he begins to make his way to the Capulate ball. In this metaphor, Romeo compares his fate to a ship. The commen characteristics that binds them and brings us meaning is the fact that the ship cannot tcontrol the path it takes, its captain dos this. Romeo’s fate is similar here as he believes that someone/ something is in control of it for him. This links to the larger nation of fate that is communicated in the play as it shows the acknowledgements from one of the main characters that a greater power rules their actions. This was a commen belief of the people in Elizabethan England, who believed there life was pre-determend by god.
Metaphor Romeo and Juliet
Romeo seas “I have night’s cloak to hide me from their eyes”
He is comparing the darkness to a dark cloak. This Thinking is pointing out that darkness and a cloak have similar meaning and that they are both able to cover so that things cannot been seen as they might be in the light.
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