Act 3 Scene 5
Many significant things happen in this scene that effect the play later on. This scene is all about Juliet and her relationships and feelings towards four different people in her life. She has four duologues in total, all adding a little more insight into how the play is mapped out. The duologues are with Romeo, Lady Capulet, Lord Capulet and Juliet’s Nurse. At first she talks with Romeo. They express their feelings very clearly and Shakespeare helps build up the love and tension for the rest of the play. Secondly she talks to Lady Capulet, her mother. Although Lady Capulet is Juliet’s biological mother they do not share a mother daughter bond. This duologue also helps bring insight into Juliet’s true feelings. The third duologue is with Lord Capulet. He starts off by supporting her, but after she tells him she isn’t going to do as he wishes, he turns into a violent, un-fatherly man. The fourth and final duologue is with the nurse, who had known Juliet since birth. She ends up giving Juliet some un appreciated advice. Each duologue adds some prophesy, fate and a little more tension.
Romeo and Juliet start this scene with the first duologue. They are discussing their love for each other, and how happy they are together. Juliet is trying to make Romeo stay longer in bed and, as the play later explains, longer in her life. Shakespeare uses phrases like ‘It was the nightingale, and not the lark.’ which means it was the night bird not the morning bird. Shakespeare has used this effectively as the nightingale is seen as a romantic bird, therefore keeping the romance alive. Also using ‘It is the lark that sings so out of tune’
Helps demonstrate Juliet’s Hatred of Romeo leaving. Every time Romeo and Juliet are together it is exciting as the readers don’t know what they will do next. Although there is a serious side to this play Shakespeare still plays around with the feeling of love, making Romeo and Juliet completely them selves around each other, very laid back and joking with each other. Romeo tells Juliet that he must leave. He uses the phrase ‘I must be gone and live, or stay and die’, which shows he’s being much more serious than he was before when he was joking around with her. Shakespeare draws the readers in by expressing their love very simply, They finish each others sentences and their words rhyme. This makes the future of the play more unbearable, as non of the audience would have liked to loose their love in such a tragic way. Also Shakespeare writes this play in such a way that it makes the audience feel like they are there, either one of Romeo or Juliet. To show Romeos compassion for Juliet he says ‘Let me be tane, let me be put to death’. Romeo is soon forced to go as Juliet’s mother comes to her room to comfort her and give her some ‘good’ news. Shakespeare adds a premonition ‘Methinks I see thee, now thou art below, As one dead in the bottom of a tomb: Either my eyesight fails, or thou look'st pale.’ this is key for later in the play as the next time Juliet sees Romeo he will be dead I the bottom of a tomb. After this premonition Shakespeare gives a good tug on the heart strings, with Romeo’s last words, ‘And trust me, love, in my eyes so do you: Dry sorrow drinks our blood. Adieu, Adieu!’. This is the final goodbye they will ever share, this is very relevant for the rest of the play as they do not want to let each other go, but they must. It is fate.
