As Juliet looks down from the balcony at Romeo, while he leaves, she imagines she sees him as a dead person in a tomb “Methinks I see the now, thou art so low, as one dead in the bottom of a tomb.” This is ironic because the next time she sees him he is in a tomb, dead.
When Lady Capulet enters she is really happy and excited. She tells Juliet that she is going to get married to Count Paris on Thursday at St. Peters Church. However when Juliet refuses to marry, “I wonder at this haste, that I must wed, Ere he that should be husband comes to woo.” Lady Capulet becomes angry.
When Lord Capulet first enters the scene, he seems happy and cheerful. When Juliet refuses to marry Paris he gets very angry. I know this because he starts shouting at Juliet and he threatens to hit her, “Speak not, reply not, do not answer me! My fingers itch. Wife, we scarce thought us blest.” We see a different side to him here because previously he was happy and cheerful.
Lady Capulet supports her husband because she will get thrown out. I know this because it says in the text. I also think Lady Capulet is really annoyed because she had to marry Lord Capulet so she would be shocked to she her daughter refusing to marry one of the richest, most handsome man in Verona.
When Lord Capulet leaves he gives Juliet an ultimatum, that if she doesn’t marry Paris, he will kick her out on to the streets and disown her, he says, “but and you will not wed, I’ll pardon you: grace were you will, you shall not house with me. Look to’t, think on’t, I do not use to jest.” This would be frightening for her because if she were kicked out she would have no money, nowhere to live and no job.
At the beginning of the play Juliet did everything her parents asked her to do. However in this scene she refuses to do whatever her mother and father tells her. She experiences many emotions in this scene. She is sometimes angry and she is sometimes sad.
When her father leaves, Juliet begs her mother to delay the marriage but Lady Capulet is to fed up with her, “Talk not to me, for I’ll not speak a word. Do as thou will, for I have done with thee.” Juliet then asks the nurse for help but the nurse tells her to forget about Romeo and marry Paris. “Romeo’s a dish clout to him. An eagle, madam I to’h not so green, so quick, so fair an eye as Paris hath. Beshrew my very heart, I think you are happy in this second match, for it excels you first, or if it did not, your first is dead, or ‘twere as good he were as living here and you no use of him.”
This is a dramatic scene and if I were directing the play, I would bring out the drama by getting Romeo to say “let me be tone, let me be put to death,” sarcastically and I would have music playing in the background. Then I would have Juliet replying to him franticly “It is, it is, hie hence be gone away!”
I would also have the nurse saying, “Your lady mother is coming to your chamber to your chamber. The day is broke, be wary, look about.” She should say this franticly as well.
