His visions of the world emphasises one of the main themes of the play, that love and hate are close, like the two families hate each other. There is that much hate between them that it destroys Romeo and Juliet’s love for each other. However Romeo and Juliet are in love and it expresses the same meaning as medicines and poison that they can be made from the same thing, but if the poison were stronger than the medicine, the medicine would be destroyed. As was Romeo and Juliet’s love was destroyed because the hate was stronger than the love.
The final lines prepare Romeo’s fate, which is being killed by the poison that he swallows. The last couple of lines predict that the circumstances that the family bring, “Where the worser is predominant, Full soon the canker death eats up that plant.”
In act Two Scene Five lines one to seventeen, Juliet is anxiously waiting for the nurse to give her the news, if Romeo was going to marry her or not. I can tell that she was anxious because she kept looking at the clock and talking about it, “The clock struck nine when I did send the nurse.”
By now the Juliet is getting impatient talking about the nurse being slow and if the nurse had youthful blood she would be quicker, and if Juliet’s was the messenger the job would have been done a lot quicker, “had she affections and warm youthful blood, she would be swift in motion as a ball.” This scene emphasises another theme; the contrast between the impatience of the youth and the slowness of age. The blood rushes to Juliet’s cheeks but the Nurse has a headache and an aching back.
Juliet’s soliloquy ends with a rhyming couplet and most of the lines in the soliloquy are written in iambic pentameter. This helps to reflect Juliet’s desire for the nurse’s swift return.
The following soliloquy is also by Juliet in Act Three Scene 2 lines one to thirty-one and is spoken in beautiful poetry. This soliloquy shows Juliet waiting for Romeo so they can start their marriage in line five she refers to “love performing night” which shows that she’s keen to lose her virginity to Romeo. She also wants the night to arrive quickly “Bring in cloudy night immediately” they always meet at night in the play and never in day light, so that people do not spot them. In line six the word “Runaways” is used this links in with the play, because Romeo and Juliet were planning to run away with each other. The word “Runaways” is much debated, interpreted and amended.
There are many lines that suggest she wants to lose her virginity, line twelve, “Learn me how to lose a winning match.” Juliet wants to lose her virginity to gain a husband. This shows to the audience her true feelings for Romeo and how much she cares for him and wants to be with him. It does not matter to her that the families hate each other.
Juliet mentions “phaeton” This is a character from mythology who almost destroyed the universe by recklessly driving the sun’s fiery chariot too close to the earth. Juliet calls upon the phaeton to bring the night quickly so that she can secretly meet Romeo.
The next soliloquy is in Act Four Scene Three lines fourteen again spoken by Juliet. This soliloquy emphasises the courage and isolation of Juliet. This is when Juliet is about to take the potion, which will make her appear dead.
The speech begins off with the word “farewell” which means that she is going to take the poison; she seems to be brave as she is doing this for her love Romeo. Line sixteen shows that she is nervous, “I have a faint cold fear thrills through my veins.” Juliet mentions the plant, which is a source of a sleep-inducing drug that is in her potion, the “Mandrake Plant.” Apparently when the plant is pulled from the ground it is suppose to groan or shriek, so that the hearers go mad.
Juliet thought of Friar Lawrence in this soliloquy. She wondered if he would still be thought of as a holy man because he married them. She also thought that he could have given her poison to kill her. Instead of a sleeping potion, “What if it be poison which the Friar subtly hath ministered to have me dead.” He might have done this so that no one finds out that he has married the pair.
Juliet nearly decides not to take the sleeping potion and goes to call the nurse, “I’ll call them back again to comfort me, Nurse! What should she do here?” When she finally takes the sleeping potion she toasts to Romeo, “Romeo, Romeo, Romeo, I drink to thee.” This shows she is brave and she is doing this for her and Romeos love.
In this soliloquy there is imagery as she described the vault as having a “foul mouth” where “no healthsome air breathes in.” She fears that if the potion works and she awakens safely, she may go mad surrounded by her ancestor’s dead bodies. Ironically, she worries about what might happen if she awakens early, but not about what might happen is she awakens too late, which is what actually happens. She takes a knife with her in case the potion does not work at all; she clearly has the courage to carry out her threat of suicide, if this is necessary.
The last soliloquy is in Act Five Scene Three lines seventy-four and one hundred and twenty and is spoken by Romeo. This is a beautiful soliloquy. He shares his feelings with the audience about Paris, Tybalts death, “Tybalt, lies thou there in thy bloody sheet?” and Mercuito’s death, “He told me Paris should have married Juliet. Said he or not so? Or did I dream it so?” Romeo says that he will bury Paris with Juliet but not in a grave but in a “lantern” because Juliet ‘s beauty makes the tomb “full of light” again the beauty of Juliet is compared by Romeo to brilliant light even in death, his speech is full of wordplay on “lightening”
Romeo talks a lot about Juliet as he declares his love for her as if he was shouting at God for taking her away. He mentions the word “beauty” a lot “upon thy beauty” The reason for him repeating the word “beauty” could have been because he thought Juliet was beautiful and her life has been wasted.
He also shows the audience how deeply in love he is with Juliet, to the extent that he would kill himself to be with her, “I still stay with thee.”
It seems that death has no power over her, its like she does not look dead because she is just asleep. This is ironic because Romeo thinks she’s dead and says she looks alive and the audience know that she is alive. Romeo believes that he is going to join her. However if he did kill himself he would be really cutting himself off from her. This gets the audience on the edge of their seats, as the tension is so strong. He states that the worms could be Juliet’s chamber maids, “ with worms that are thy chamber maids.” And the vault is Juliet’s bedchamber.
I think that the soliloquy is Act Four Scene Three is the most dramatic and effective in the play because it is where Juliet is deciding whether or not to take potion and if she trusts the Friar, to give her a potion and not a poison because if he gave her a poison she would die and then no-one would know that she and Romeo were married
This soliloquy shows the audience that Juliet has many different feelings, nervous, bravery and fear, when she is about to take the potion, “I have a faint cold fear thrills through my veins.”