Romance is the key theme in each of these works, and each of them
             contains a romantic and memorable balcony scene that is pivotal in the
             action of the piece. They have also changed the way we look at balconies,
             for instead of simply architectural additions; balconies have become
             synonymous with romance, romantic interludes, and young, blooming love.
             Each of these balcony scenes is a bit different, but they all have
             commonalties that twine them together and make them memorable to the reader
             The balcony scene in "Romeo and Juliet" is perhaps the most memorable
             and famous of all these scenes. Who cannot be moved when Romeo recites
             "With love's light wings did I o'erperch these walls; For stony limits
             cannot hold love out, And what love can do that dares love attempt"
             (Hosley and Shakespeare 38). Certainly not Juliet. Romeo romances Juliet
             on the balcony, and it is here they fall in love and pledge their undying
             love for each other. The balcony is important here because not only to the
             two lovers swear their love for each other; they deny their families to
             declare their love. Not only have they sealed their love, they have sealed
             their fate, with the balcony between them.
             The balcony in "Romeo and Juliet" serves as an impediment to their
             love, as it does in all the works, but it also, in its own way, brings the
             two closer together. Perhaps by speaking rather than being able to see and
             touch each other, the lovers transcend their differences in all these
             stories, and fall in love with the real person, rather than the fantasy
             surrounding looks and the outside trappings. Thus, the balconies in each
             work serve as a reminder that love transcends all things. It does not
             matter if Cyrano has a huge nose, under the balcony, his words are more
             beautiful than anything imaginable, and so are C.D. Bales in "Roxanne," and
             Romeo's in "Romeo and Juliet." The balconies encoura...