Just before Act 1 Scene 5 in Act 1 Scene 4 ends in a gloomy way as Romeo has many thoughts about Rosaline but when Act 1 Scene 5 starts all the emotions change as Lord Capulet welcomes all his guests as he is really excited about his party. Capulet is really too old to dance so he encourages his guests to dance as he’s in his best mood ever in the whole play and looks to do anything to prevent his party from distractions. Lord Capulet’s speech is full of reference for walking and dancing, and contrasts the hot vigor of all the youths and older ones with his old age with confession. The opening of the scene shows that Shakespeare does not want the audience to come to sudden action as he develops the scene first with the atmosphere full of happiness with the party’s mood. This opening has a great effect overall on the scene as the scene develops with happiness and comes to the main point. "O she doth teach the torches to burn bright’’. This sentence suggests that Shakespeare is bringing the concentration of the audience about the beauty of humans and makes a judgment that the beauty of humans is greater then a candle. When Romeo sees Juliet for the first time he is stunned by her splendid beauty and says "What lady’s that which doth enrich the hand’’, and says that she is "blessed’’. Romeo who was in an artificial love with Rosaline now falls in to another pain as this love looks to be nothing like Rosaline’s and we the audience know straight away that this pain will be made greater and the love would be even greater and powerful. Shakespeare uses his intellect and decorates each scene with more beautiful views. In this scene the atmosphere has obtained a great dramatic effect and has shown the audience about the changing’s in real feelings and real love.
"Tis he, that villain Romeo’’, by this event Shakespeare is trying to bring in the theme hate as well as love. In contrast to Romeo’s beautiful, gentle and admiring speech towards Juliet, Tybalt has overhead him as he recognizes Romeo’s voice and as usual he is looking for a fight. All the guests are wearing fancy dresses and masks as Romeo is wearing it to hide his identification but his identification is blown away by his voice to Tybalt as Tybalt furiously rages to Lord Capulet to inform him about this situation as he is really exasperated about a Montague at the party. This shows his fiery character, he doesn't think about the consequences of his actions, and wants his own way all the time. Capulet tells Tybalt to calm down as he says that Romeo isn’t doing any real damage in the party and is only there to have fun. I think this shows that Lord Capulet does not want his party spoilt for his guests and doesn't really have a problem all the time with the Montague's as long as they behave themselves. Tybalt argues his opinion though, "It fits when such a villain is a guest; I'll not endure him." When Capulet says Romeo can stay, Tybalt doesn't like it and acts like a baby not getting his own way. He wants revenge on Romeo. We know that he would kill him if he gets the chance because he hates the Montague's so much. Tension builds up, and there are hints of danger as the audience wonders whether this has anything to do with Romeo's premonition of doom. Tybalt then wants to actually kill Romeo but then Lord Capulet is incensed by Tybalt’s foolishness and disobedience and orders him to get out as Tybalt swears to get Romeo back and kill him. Shakespeare wants this play to have a grievous end that’s why he is taking the story towards tragedy as this event plays a huge role in leading it to a tragedy. In this scene Shakespeare wants to make love and hate joint together to perform a tragedy in the end. Romeo we all know right from the beginning of the play has no business to even meet Juliet but let alone fall in love with her.
The Capulet family is one of the high social standing. It consists of Lord and Lady Capulet, their young daughter Juliet, and their kinsman Tybalt. They have a nurse, as well, who has taken care of Juliet since she was born. They get along quite well, yet, like all families they have their differences. However, one thing that happens frequently when two members of the family disagree on something, is that usually someone gives in to their “superior,” regardless if they agree or not. One example is when Romeo shows up at the Capulet’s party uninvited and Tybalt wants to throw him out. Lord Capulet objects to this by saying, “He shall be endured...I say he shall...Am I the master here or you?” For a little bit, Tybalt argues, but he very soon backs down and lets Capulet have his way. Perhaps the reason why this happens is because the “inferior” person is somewhat intimidated by the “superior.” This intimidation that some of the
characters produce on each other shows that there is not a great deal of communication in the family. Throughout Act one, there were several more examples of characters yielding to others and not standing up for what they believe. For instance, when Lady Capulet brought up the idea of Juliet marrying Paris, Juliet just went along with the concept, even though that was possibly not what she wanted. An even more significant instance of such a thing occurring is the fact that Juliet feared to tell her parents that she had fallen in love with Romeo, a Montague. She knew that if she informed them of how she felt, they would get angry and maybe disown her, just because of their hate for all Montague’s. That is another of the Capulet family’s flaws. They are rather narrow-minded because of their continuing, senseless conflict with the Montague’s. Both households are of equal fault in this case, but that only proves that the two families are alike in that way. Even still, if the Capulet’s believe that they truly are the more dignified, they should have ceased their dispute earlier and prevented their daughter’s unhappiness (and eventually death). Instead, they decided to keep the feud going and believe that all Montague’s are the same and that all should be despised. As head of the family, Lord Capulet is largely responsible for everything that has been going on, but despite his closed-mindedness he is still a pretty admirable man. He is a good father who only wants the best for his daughter.
He doesn’t realize though, that marrying Romeo is what really is best for Juliet. It is what she truly wants and it is the only thing that will make her happy. Capulet exposes a different side of himself in the first scene than in most of the rest of the play. In Scene one, he only says a few lines but he still communicates the fact that he is angry at Montague and he wants to fight. Later in Scene two he says, “But Montague is bound as well as I, in penalty alike and ‘tis not hard, I think, for men so old as we to keep the peace.” This verse displays his more compassionate side; the part of him who is tired of fighting and who just wants it all to stop. The Capulet’s are a lot like all other families. Obviously, the problems and fights that normal families have aren’t as extreme as the Capulet’s, but everyone has obstacles to get though and the Capulet’s are no different in this manner. Of course they lack some communication, and they should have been more open-minded, but they were pretty functional. Maybe that’s the way most families were in Verona so long ago.
In this scene Shakespeare has successfully created a great love between the two major characters in the play as both characters show this by their beautiful speech to each other. "My lips two blushing pilgrims’ ready stand’’, Romeo and Juliet’s beautiful and gorgeous speeches to each other are full of spiritual connotation. Although they talk about love as in kissing touching they also talk about holy excels, temperate sins, pilgrims, devotions, saints and prayers. This formal use of language has a dignified tempo and connection the sincerity of their love for each other. The love speeches between Romeo and Juliet are in a sonnet formation. Shakespeare has used a considerable variety of language in Romeo and Juliet to help and explain the sort of love Romeo and Juliet have between them. Noble people in the play speak in blank verses but lower class people speak in prose, we can see this because in Romeo’s and Juliet’s meeting they speak in verses and the servants speak in poses. Shakespeare employs the language in a variety of lyrical and poetic formation as we can realize it in the opening chorus to act one scene two.
Towards the end of the scene Shakespeare shows the audience the result of the scene as Juliet says "My grave is like to be my wedding bed.’’ As soon as both Romeo and Juliet find out that they are from each others enemies they both get infected by a great deal of shock as Juliet says "My only love sprung from my only hate!’’. When Juliets wanted to know Romeo’s name she says if I can’t marry Romeo I will die. It is the first time that death is mentioned in the play so far as this increases the audience’s tension. From this incident the audience knows straight away what is likely to happen in the end and what sort of tragedy will happen towards the end.
If we go through and analyze act one scene five we can come to a conclusion that this scene is a very important scene to the rest of the play as this scene makes the audience learn a lot about the story. Before this scene began the story wasn’t really effective as the story was getting a bit monotonous. From the beginning to the end of the scene the audience got the main theme and the main part of the story as this scene developed. From Act 1 Scene 5 we can say that the main theme of this play would be love and hate as this scene reveals and exposes a lot about the whole story as the audience begin to really understand the story and enjoy them selves. These days many people use Shakespeare’s theme to entertain this new generation, the themes are used a lot in many films such as ‘The west side story’ in Asian Bollywood films and etc. I think that this scene plays a major part in the whole play as this scene reveals a lot about the characters and the main theme of the play. With out this scene in the play I don’t think that ‘Romeo and Juliet’ would be a successful play of Shakespeare because this scene is the only scene that contains the real understanding for the audience. I think that this play from Shakespeare is one of the best that I ever read as Shakespeare used an amazing vocabulary to describe every scene in tremendous amount of descriptive detail especially act one scene five, yet leaving spaces of using imagination. The play was really hard to understand at first but when I got used to it I really enjoyed it a lot.
