How Does Shakespeare Make You Feel Sympathy For Juliet

        At the beginning of Act 3 Scene 5 Romeo and Juliet have just consummated their marriage but Romeo must leave quickly because Juliet’s parents are on their way up the stairs to inform her that she is to be married to Paris. She reacts very badly to her parents demands. Her father threatens her with disownment if she does not agree to be married. Even the only person who she thought she could trust in a situation said that she should get married to Paris, her nurse. At the end of this scene Juliet feel very depressed. The audience notice that things are going from bad to worse for Juliet and the level of sympathy they have for her is increasing.

        In Act 4 Scene 1 & 3 Juliet has two main speeches, in the first one she says how she would rather commit suicide that to marry Paris:-“O bid me leap, rather than marry Paris, From off the battlements of any tower,” and how she would rather begin to thieve off people:-”Or walk in thievish ways” and how she would rather go to a grave with a dead man than marry him:-“Or bid me go into a new made grave And hide me with a dead man in his shroud”.

        The Friar has a plan for Juliet to take a potion that will make it look like she is dead for 42 hours and then when she has been laid in the family tomb Romeo will come and pick her up and take her to Mantua with him. Juliet has the fear that she will take this potion and then she will not wake up. The audience would feel sympathy for her at this point because in a way they would also share her fear, and also that she has had to resort to such a desperate measure to be with the man that she loves.

        At the end of the play Romeo is told that Juliet is dead and so he go and buys some poison, he hen goes to the tomb where she is buried and he sees with his own eyes that she is dead and he sits beside her and drinks the potion. Just before the effects begin Juliet regains consciousness and with Romeos last dieing breath they kiss. Juliet then takes a dagger and stabs herself. At the very end of the play the two families then console all of their differences and the feud then ends putting a stop to any unnecessary killing

        At the end of the play some of the audience would be reduced to tears. They would feel very sympathetic for Juliet and they would feel very sorry for her, most of them would probably never wish a similar fate as this on anybody.

        This play is a tragedy because both of the main characters die in each others arms and the fact that there families were at war gives it that extra sense of loss that two people so young would have been affected by this war. I think that this play is still popular today because it strikes a chord with most people, even though the traditions are very out dated.

        I think the two families are to blame for the deaths because if they were not feuding then none of it would have happened and everything would have been fine and no one would have had to die unnecessarily. I believe that you most feel sympathy for Romeo and Juliet because of all of the heartache that they had to go through to try and make the feud between their families not come between there love for each other.