What do we find out about Juliet in act3 scene 5

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Romeo and Juliet.

Act 3 scene 5 is a very pivotal moment in Romeo and Juliet, for it exposes all that is wrong in with Juliet. In this essay I will analyse Juliet’s issues; which are mainly sexism in the Shakespearian times, the banishment of Romeo, the concept of love, and many other things.

In act 1 scene 2, Paris is asking Capulet weather he can take Juliet’s hand in marriage. At this point, Capulet is being very reluctant to give Juliet to Paris because he believes that Juliet is too young and Naïve. He also seems to believe that Juliet should choose herself and that he should not interfere with her love life.

   

“But woo her, gentle Paris, get her heart, my will to her consent is but a part”

By saying this, Capulet showing to Paris that he should ask Juliet for her hand personally, instead of asking her father, because it is not up to him to decide. He is also trying to explain the fact that Juliet has to actually love Paris to marry him, and that Paris should “get her heart” to, in a way, win he heart.

Later on in the play, Capulet decides to let Paris marry because he sees Juliet crying about what he thinks is the death of Tybalt. Although Capulet says that the marriage of his daughter is mainly up to her earlier on in the play, he makes his decision and speaks to Paris straight away, instead of consulting Juliet before. This is a very good use of Dramatic Irony because in act 1 scene 2 Shakespeare makes Capulet seem like a very gentle character, one who would definitely never betray his word. Shakespeare does this to increase the sympathy for Juliet and hatred for Capulet, because as we all know Juliet was not crying for Tybalt’s death and she was always sure that her father would let her make her own decision, especially as she was the last child, but nevertheless; he enforces this marriage upon to her.

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“Things have fall'n out, sir, so unluckily, that we have had no time to move our daughter: look you, she loved her kinsman Tybalt dearly, and so did I: -Well, we were born to die.'Tis very late, she'll not come down to-night: I promise you, but for your company, I would have been a-bed an hour ago.”

In the way that Capulet is saying this, he believes that what he is doing is the right thing yet the reader knows that what he is doing is an enormous mistake. This increases the tension within the play because the ...

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