Monologue Analysis
JULIET
Thou know’st the mask of night is on my face,
Else would a maiden blush bepaint my cheek
For that which thou hast heard me speak tonight.
Fain would I dwell on form. Fain, fain deny
What I have spoke. But farewell compliment!

Dost thou love me? I know thou wilt say “ay,”
And I will take thy word. Yet if thou swear’st
Thou mayst prove false. At lovers' perjuries,
They say, Jove laughs. O gentle Romeo,
If thou dost love, pronounce it faithfully.

Or if thou think’st I am too quickly won,
I’ll frown and be perverse and say thee nay,
So thou wilt woo. But else, not for the world.
In truth, fair Montague, I am too fond,
And therefore thou mayst think my 'havior light.

But trust me, gentleman, I’ll prove more true
Than those that have more coying to be strange.
I should have been more strange, I must confess,
But that thou overheard’st, ere I was 'ware,
My true love’s passion. Therefore pardon me,

And not impute this yielding to light love,
Which the dark night hath so discovered.
This monologue by Julie takes place in ACT II SCENE II in Romeo and Juliet. Before this monologue, Juliet is sleeping in her room. Romeo approaches her balcony in the dead of night and coos for her. She comes forth to the balcony, her looking down at Romeo in wonder and Romeo looking up to her like a shining sun, both entangled and enthralled in vicious lust for one another. Juliet speaks from her heart when she speaks, despite the darkness covering my face, I am very much blushing. Please, don’t tell me you “love me” so easily like a phase, because I truly love you. If you really do love me, won’t you give to me what I so desperately