We are shown how much Romeo loves Juliet and feels he can’t live without her hen he says he would prefer to be killed rather than living without her ‘My life were better ended by their hate than death prorogued, wanting of thy love. However their love may have been so powerful it changed destiny itself.
Throughout the scene Romeo uses romantic language to win over Juliet’s love and her hand in marriage. The language is brings him and Juliet closer and is very important throughout the whole play. Juliet now takes the lead as her feelings change and she is embarrassed and she tells Romeo if it wasnt dark he would see her blushing, ‘Thou knowest the mask of night is on my face, which shows that even that she has fallen for Romeo so quickly she still wants to prove her love for him and show she isn’t a flirt. She also says her love isn’t ‘light love’ which shows us she feels really deeply for Romeo.
The religious imagery is continued when Juliet calls Romeo ‘the god of my idolatry’. This lightens the mood and shows that Juliet worships Romeo as much as he worships her. The mood is suddenly tense again as Juliet feels their love is moving too fast ‘is it too rash, too unadvised, too sudden’.
Romeo feels Juliet is leaving him unfulfilled and he says anger ‘O wilt thou leave me so unsatisfied?’ Juliet replies with two similes ‘My bounty is as boundless as the sea’ and ‘My love as deep: the more I give to thee’. Yet Romeo feels Juliet is rejecting him.
After the nurse leaves Juliet calls, “Romeo." Romeo thinks her voice is the loveliest voice he has ever heard and he replies, "It is my soul that calls upon my name, How silver-sweet sound lovers' tongues by night, Like softest music to attending ears!" Romeo tells Juliet to send a messenger ‘By the hour of nine.’ To which Juliet answers ‘I will not fail’, showing how impatient she is to be with Romeo and how serious her love for him is.
After finding a solution of how to be together and making plans to be wed, the couple finally have a moment in tranquillity as a result a peaceful mood is created.
The lovers then part and the scene ends except for Romeo last lines, ‘Hence will I to my ghostly friar’s close cell.
It starts with Juliet being shy until she hears Romeo say, Yet, wert thou as far As that vast shore washed with the farthest sea, I would adventure for such merchandise. Juliet then takes lead and her speech changes and becomes more loving which makes the mood more romantic.
