Although Romeo and Juliet are acting silly in this scene, they should be acting serious as they will be in extremely deep trouble if anyone catches them together but as they are truly in love they do not care.
The nurse will then burst in to the room, this has a marvellous effect, It is now not peaceful and Romeo has to leave Juliet at once. By now there is a lot of tension and the levels build up. At this time this scene fly’s buy as everyone are just rushing around.
When Romeo leaves, Lady Capulet walks in to Juliet's room wanting to talk to her of her marriage to Paris. Theres tension when Lady Capulet tells Juliet. She is disgusted. She gets very upset and angry for obvious reason such as her feelings for Romeo. There is a strong difference between Mother’s and daughter’s relationships back then, than what it is like now a days. Juliet’s mother isn’t very nice about it all when Juliet says no, she is not at al understanding.
Thing are already very tense but then Capulet enters the room and makes the atmosphere even worse. It is a very happy beginning at the of the scene when Romeo and Juliet wake up together, but then there is a dramatic change when Capulet enters the scene. Every thing then goes wrong for Romeo and Juliet. When Capulet finds out that Juliet doesn't want to marry Paris he was not very happy at all, infact he goes mad. He starts insulting her, he also gets very angry with everyone including Lady Capulet. Capulet quotes "Out, you green-sickness carrion! out, you baggage! You tallow-face!" this really gives us a vision of how angry he actually is, he is insulting his very own daughter. Lady Capulet says "Fie, fie, what, are you mad?" Lady Capulet absolutely can not believe what her husband is saying to his own daughter and Lady Capulet sticks up for Juliet at once, for a bit (Shakespeare is showing the mother and daughter relationship between Lady Capulet and Juliet, the mother is sticking up for her daughter here). Capulet is in control and the audience can see this buy the way Capulet uses his language and dramatic performance. Capulet is trying to control Juliet in what she does and he thinks he will control her but Juliet is stronger then that and she will fight back, because she wants to stay with Romeo and that’s all she wants.
An audience in Shakespearian time would respond differently to a modern audience watching this particular part of the scene. It would be an outrage to a Shakespearian audience that Juliet disobeyed her father in such way and would think Juliet is in the wrong and would feel no sympathy for her, Where as A modern audience would respond very differently to this depending on the culture of the audience members. A modern audience would mainly feel very sorry for Juliet and disagree with Capulet the father. Modern audience would have a strong understanding that Juliet wants to be with her loved one. Most people in the modern audience would be outraged that Capulet as a father would treat Juliet in such a violent/abusive way and many people now certainly do not agree with arranged marriages.
Capulet carrys on getting more violent with Juliet, she ends up on her knees on the floor. She is turned down by her father and mother, and now her nurse. Juliet quotes "Comfort me, counsel me" this shows how much Juliet depends on her nurse.
The tension levels rise high in this scene and the scene starts of happy with Romeo and Juliet waking up together and ends up terrible with father, mother and nurse against her.
In this scene we learn how much Juliet needs her nurse and how much she depends on her. We learn also how hard it is going to be for Romeo and Juliet to be happy together.
In this scene the relationship between Juliet and the nurse changes dramatically. The nurse quotes "I think it best you married with the County. O he's a lovely gentleman!" this is not the reaction Juliet expects of the nurse, Juliet doesn't want to hear that she wants Romeo.
I really like the way the modern version has staged the scene and i like the way it’s peaceful, happy and perfect at the start and then suddenly turns into a terrible family fall out. I would personally stage this scene very simliar to that of the modern version of the film. There are bits that I would stage differently, such as when Juliet is on her hands and knees. I would show that Juliet is lonely and has no one n her side by curling up in to a ball on her floor.
I would like my Shakespearean audience to be touched, suprised and shocked, I think the director has suceeded in this well in the old version of the film, because back then people would feel that Juliet is very disrespectful buy the way she says no to her father when he wants her to marry Paris. In a modern audience point of view I would like them to feel a lot of sympathy for Juliet and I would want the audience to be against Capulet. The director does this well in the modern version of the film, this makes the film much more appealing for the younger generation to watch.
Conclusion-
Overall, I feel that this scene is very effective and Shakespeare does it very well. The relationships are created very well. Such as : Juliet thinks the nurse would be on her side but she isn’t. this has a big dramatic change in the relationship.
Shakespeare is very succsessful in making a dramatic scenes by using different ;
