ROMEO & JULIET ESSAY

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ROMEO & JULIET ESSAY

In this essay I am going to be focusing on Act 3 Scene 5. I am going to examine the means by which Shakespeare encourages the audience to feel sorry for Juliet and lays the foundation for the tragedy to come.

Act 3 Scene 5 consists of 5 different events. Each event shows Juliet in an emotional state. In the beginning of the scene Juliet is with Romeo. Shakespeare uses poetic language to describe the pairs love for each other. "Pomegranate tree", "candles" and "misty mountain tops" are mentioned. This creates and conveys a poem rather than a conversation. It shows that their love is true and blissful. Romeo is Juliet's life. "Then window let day in and let life out".

The audience feels sorry for because it seems like she has no life. When Romeo leaves he takes her life with him, without him she has nothing to live for. Just before Romeo leaves, Juliet says, "Methinks I see thee now, thou art so low, as one dead in at he bottom of a tomb".
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Juliet is seeing Romeo dead. This is an omen for the tragedy to come.

When Juliet's mother enters the room the audience can sense a coldness between them. There is no show of emotion, they don't embrace and everything seems very distant. "Talk not to me, for ill not speak a word. Do as thou wilt, for I have done with thee" Lady Capulet say's this to Juliet, when Juliet refuses to marry Paris.

This makes the audience feel sorry for her because Juliet is being forced into marrying Paris when she is in ...

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