'Romeo and Juliet' by William Shakespeare - Look again at Act 5 scene 3, lines 1-70. Explain why it is dramatically important.

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Siobhan Dudley

25th November 2002

‘Romeo and Juliet’ by William Shakespeare

Look again at Act 5 scene 3, lines 1-70. Explain why it is dramatically important consider closely:

  • Where the scene is set
  • How the language of the characters shows their thoughts and feelings
  • Why the audience might find this scene interesting
  • How the scene is part of the tragedy of the play

This play is about two star-crossed lovers caught in a family feud. Act 5 scenes 3 Romeo has come to commit suicide and be with Juliet but she isn’t in actuality dead and Paris has come to lay flowers and perfumed water. She wakes up to see Romeo and Paris dead commits suicide to. It is the big dramatic climax of the whole play. It is dramatically important because of the setting and the language of the characters witch this essay will demonstrate.

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The setting makes the scene dramatic for the reason that it is dark cold and it’s a graveyard. Romeo is there with his Page. There is a need to put the torch out

“Give me thy torch boy hence and stand aloof. Yet put it out for I would not be seen.”

Because Romeo isn’t authorized to be in the graveyard or even the town because he has been banished which gives an element of secrecy, which for the audience creates anxiety. As it is a graveyard there is a grim dark atmosphere.

Inside Romeo meets Paris its murky ...

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