Once Romeo finished the phrase Juliet’s mood change as she quickly realises if Romeo does not leave he would get caught and be executed so Juliet changes her speech from before and tell Romeo to leave and convinces herself that it is the Lark singing.
The light and dark shows the fate of Romeo and Juliet as the quote from Romeo line 36 “More light and light, more dark and dark our woes!” shows the brighter the weather is the more dangerous it would be as it is nearer to the morning.
In line 54-57 “o god, I have an ill divining soul! Methinks I see thee now, thou art so low as one dead in the bottom of a tomb, either my eyesight fails, or thou look’st pale,” This is Romeo foreshadows that she sees Romeo dead in a tomb, in a way it is an effective phrase because they do see each other at the end dead inside the coffin also linking to line 60 “o fortune, fortune, all men call thee fickle,” cursing the fortune so it would not come true.
Part 2 The Second Duologue
Once Lady Capulet enters the room, she is oblivious of what has just happened in Juliet’s room and is excited to give Juliet a good news but she sees Juliet crying and thinks she is unsympathetic towards her cousins death but she is really crying because of Romeo leaving her but she is hiding her love for Romeo from her mum because she says” yet let me weep for such a feeling lost.”
When Juliet and Lady Capulet are having a conversation of Romeo line 75-102 there is a use of double entendre by Juliet. This double meaning adds a bit more drama and excitement to this part of the play as the audience know Juliet is talking of her love for Romeo, whereas her mother thinks she is speaking of Romeo in a disapproving manner. This is the main part of Juliet´s and Lady Capulet´s speeches in those lines which shows the double meanings clearly
The one dramatic irony is from line 93-102 where she describes how she is going to kill Romeo with poison where it did came true because if it wasn’t for the poison at the end Romeo wouldn’t of died.
Throughout the scene, Lady Capulet makes many speeches aimed at Juliet, some of these more vital than others, like sending a man to kill Romeo. It comes to mind that she thinks that Tybalt´s death has affected her most out of everyone as she does not think he was punished accordingly for the crime committed.
Once Lady Capulet turns to Juliet about the wedding she refuses her in line 17 “He shall not make me there a joyful bride” and Lady Capulet can’t believe what she is saying so she turns to husband.
Part 3 The Third Duologue
Lord Capulet enters in Juliet’s room thinking Juliet has agreed to the wedding, he uses water and sea imagery to describe Juliet in tears in lines 126-138 acting though he is nice towards her daughter comforting her, trying to act all nice and caring using words like “drizzle drew” as tears and a “conduit” which is a fountain using water images to comfort her because he thinks he grateful that Juliet is marrying Paris but when lady Capulet says Line 139 “ay, sir, but she will none” meaning she will not marry him his mood starts to change and become extremely angry using insults like in line 156 “you green-sickness carrion! Out, you baggage! You tallow face!” Capulet's strong language in this scene showed his superiority over Juliet.
At this stage Juliet is now deeply upset and turns to her mother.
Part 4 The fourth duologue
Juliet turns to her mother at this point but is completely ignored in line 202-203 “Talk not to me, for I’ll not speak a word. Do as thou wilt, for what I have done with thee”, this suggest the relationship with Juliet and her mother is not so close because usually the mothers are always on the daughter’s side.
She now turns to her final hope the Nurse who is now the closest character to Juliet at this point in the play but even she tells her the same advice line 212-225 saying Romeo would never come back because he is banished from Verona unless by stealth which is impossible and instead tells her also to marry Paris.
At this point Juliet replies by saying line 226 “Speak’st thou from thy heart” this means Juliet curses the Nurse to show her anger.
Juliet feels the Nurse has betrayed her and her loyalty now lies toward the Capulet household, where as before her loyalty lied with Juliet. I think the Nurse still has Juliet’s best interest at heart and has not betrayed in any way. I feel the only reason the Nurse is telling Juliet to wed Paris as opposed to Romeo is because then she will still keep a good relationship with the Capulet family and so she doesn’t end up on the streets, with no money and not a healthy life. As Romeo is banished, he cannot provide a good home and family for Juliet while Paris can and Juliet does not break her bonds with her family. I still believe the Nurse has changed her mind and not her heart, as I believe the Nurse still thinks Romeo is a better gentleman and Juliet will love him more than any other man.
The Nurse’s importance is portrayed once again, as her ‘betrayal’ and change of advice led Juliet to her plan of drinking poison, which had a devastating affect on a the final line of the scene.
Conclusion
From act 3 scene v, we see she is being more isolated as the scene go on because one by one she is being separated by key characters: Romeo, her mother, her father and the nurse.
We see Juliet becoming stronger throughout the scene as she has the courage to tell her parents that she doesn’t want to marry Paris even with all the pressure she’s putting up with.
Overall, the drama is created mainly by the use of suspense and the strength of the language used by different characters at parts of the play, especially when that mood is not expected to be shown in that part. I have also concluded that a characters language was written to suit the image of them to others and to make the play interesting and exciting throughout.
BY KELVIN HANG SY
