I was being bold and convinced myself she had forgotten about me. She sighed softly and conversed on her own. She said my name three times, I gasped in astonishment my body froze. She hadn’t forgotten me! I was running through her heart as she was for me.
She commenced revealing feelings and thoughts about me. Her concern was what I was, not who I was. ‘Wherefore art thou Romeo?’ She asked aimlessly at the stars. I wished I could provide an answer. I asked myself whether or not I should say something, but I was too curious. She maintained asking her queries, sating that a name had no real meaning or matter. She ended by asking me to take all her self. I immediately made my presence known; I jumped out from my hiding and agreed with her request.
I scared her, and she became mixed up, perplexed and shocked. She was surprised to see me for I had climbed the walls of the orchard, she called them high and hard to scale, but to me they just a barrier I would gladly cross to reach Juliet, for nothing can hold love out. I’d risk everything for her.
Juliet warned me that if her kinsmen found her there they would murder me. My life were better ended by their hate, my only danger was Juliet not returning this heart filled love. I had night to hide me, night who has become a much-needed friend. Love had guided me to Juliet; she admitted to me that she was embarrassed by what I had over heard. She desired that she had not confessed her emotions in that manner. She informed she was just too in love to be hassled with wooing and making our love difficult by pretending she is not interested in me. She says she knows me and I know GCSE English Coursework: Unit 4- Literary Heritage (Shakespeare)
GCSE English Literature Coursework: Unit 3 Pre-1914 Drama
Imagine that you are EITHER Romeo or Juliet at the end of Act Two, Scene Two in Shakespeare’s ‘Romeo and Juliet’. Write a detailed diary entry of your thoughts and feelings after you have both parted.
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her too, she is my fair love. But she is more than fair she is beauty itself. She is like a glorious flower, with petals that enclose her even more stunning soul and she her petals have opened to me.
However, I feel some consequence hanging in the stars and I fear my fortune. I feel that an untameable tide is pending. I also fear of Juliet and my divide I worry about Capulet and Montague, Juliet reminded me, we cannot escape our families’ feud and we cannot break away from our names. I struggle to understand why our love must be tainted with this obstruction.
Juliet wanted a vow, ‘Dost thou love me?’ she pleaded with me to pronounce it faithfully and so when I began swearing by the moon she questioned it, she stopped me and stated the moon was changeable, she asked if my love for her was too, of course not. She labelled our love as rash, unadvised and sudden, too like lightening, but doesn’t lightening shine bright into panicking darkness?
So I swore on myself, and I would rather die than let that vow be broken. Juliet had to leave, her nurse called her from within and leaving me there fully unsatisfied. She had given me her vow before I had even asked for it. We had given each vows of devotion.
She disappeared into the mansion and asked me to wait for her return. I thanked God for that blessed night, I was apprehension if it was a dream or not, that maybe it was vivid fantasy all in my head. Julie then purposed that if my love were honourable and true that we marriage tomorrow. It was and intense amazing feeling, I will marry the light of my life. Juliet is my whole world and I would die without. I was ecstatic with joy when Juliet left my sight again. She will send someone to give me message tomorrow by the hour of nine, she bid me goodnight over and over again, and making it harder to actually do every time she said it. I retired slowly leaving Juliet is like going to school, a horrible chore, but returning to her is the same as leaving school which is the best part of the day. I didn’t want to leave her side; I could have stayed with her all night. She appeared again forgetting why she had asked me to return, obviously sharing me excitement about our marriage the next day. She told me she enjoyed my company. I wished dawn would never arrive.
In order for our marriage to be successful, it must stay secret to protect us both. I assume Juliet will tell her Nurse, her most close friend and I will inform Friar Lawrence. I will ask him if he will marry us. I will not be able to sleep tonight; I’m more impatience than I can stand. In fact I will leave to see Friar Lawrence now...
