Juliet Soliloquy

A soliloquy is a literary device often used in drama characterized by a character's divulgence of his or her thoughts or emotions to the audience or speaking to ones self. In Romeo and Juliet the famous balconey scene where Juliet says: "O Romeo, Romeo, Wherefore Art Thou Romeo?" This is where the lovestruck Juliet calling to her lover from her bedroom window. She is not speaking to Romeo. She doesn't know he's under her window. Shakespeare is actually playing a joke on his heroine: whilst she comes onto her balcony to think about the boy she fancies, and imagines talking to him. The whole time the boy is hidden in her garden to overhear her. To read more on this subject visit http://shakespeareantheatre.suite101.com/article.cfm/juliets_solilquy#ixzz0PPDSDpTL.