How does William Shakespeare create excitement and suspense for the audience in Act 1 Scene 5, of Romeo and Juliet?

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 How does William Shakespeare create excitement and suspense for the audience in Act 1 Scene 5, of Romeo and Juliet?

In this assignment, I’m studying the play Romeo and Juliet, by William Shakespeare. I’m looking at Act 1 Scene 5. Where Romeo and Juliet meet for the first time. This play was written between 1593 and 1596.

The story is about two rival families in Verona, each family has a child each, Juliet and Romeo.

These young people meet accidentally and fall in love. They marry in secret, without parent’s acknowledgement or consent. Romeo gets revenge on Tybalt (Juliet’s cousin) for killing his best friend, to get revenge he kills Tybalt. In effect of this Romeo is banished from Verona. Juliet drinks a potion to make her look dead for 20 hours, to avoid her wedding to Count Paris. Romeo, thinking Juliet is dead, he takes his own life lying next to Juliet. Juliet wakes to find Romeo dead, she takes his dagger and commits suicide, thinking that life cant go on without Romeo.

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But, I’m only studying Act 1 Scene 5, were Romeo and Juliet first meet. In this scene servants are frantically preparing for the upcoming party, held by the Capulet’s,

‘Away with the joint-stools, remove the
court-cupboard, look to the plate. Good thou, save

me a piece of marchpane; and, as thou lovest me, let

the porter let in Susan Grindstone and Nell.

Antony, and Potpan!’

This quote taken from the play, would be said frantically to emphasis to the audience that he’s giving out quick, last minute instructions to the servants for the party. This is to get ...

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