Write an Explanation of the Way Juliet Feels in Act 3 Scene2. How much do you Sympathise with Her?
Write an Explanation of the Way Juliet Feels in Act 3 Scene2. How much do you Sympathise with Her? In Act 3 Scene 2, Juliet experiences many different & strong emotions. This essay is to explain the reasons why she experiences these feelings. From excitement & joy to anger & resentment, from complete despair, she finds hope & towards the end she is strongly thinking about committing suicide. It goes from one extreme emotion to another. This scene explores her thoughts & feelings about Romeo & what he really is like. This scene is one of the most dramatic & exciting scenes in the play Romeo & Juliet. At the beginning of the scene, she feels excitement. Since that Romeo & Juliet have gotten married secretly, she wants Romeo to hurry up, so that they consummate their marriage. We know that Juliet wants to Romeo to hurry because she said, ‘Gallop apace, you fiery-footed steeds’. She wants Romeo to come at night because it is the only time that they can consummate their marriage because no one can see Romeo enter the Capulet mansion, the darkness hides Romeo. Darkness is one of the main themes in this scene. She said, ‘and bring in cloudy night immediately. Spread thy close curtain, love performing night’, this shows us that she wants night to come. It also says that this is the night that they perform their love. ‘So tedious is this day’, she is impatient for the day to be over. She is looking forward to the their time together, ‘Though I an sold, Not yet enjoy’d’. ‘And learn me how to lose a winning match, Play’d for a pair of stainless maidenhoods’, this show us that they she is frankly sexual. Next, Juliet feels adoration towards Romeo. She makes this obvious to audience by using beautiful language to show that he is special to her. ‘Come, night; come, Romeo; come, thou day in night’, Romeo is day & he stands out in the night. In this quote, Shakespeare used darkness to show how much Juliet adores Romeo, one of the main themes in this play is darkness.’ Give me my Romeo; &, when he shall die, Take him & cut him out in little stars, & he will make the face of
heaven so fine That the world will be in love with night’, she loves & adores him so much that she wants to cut him up into little stars & wants everyone to love him as the way she loves him. She says, ‘Give me my Romeo’, Shakespeare uses alliteration, ‘me my’, & Romeo belongs to Juliet & she wants him. When the nurse enters, she is nervous & anxious to tell her something. What the nurse says makes Juliet confused. The nurse is agitated because she has some news & Juliet picks up on this because she asked why ...
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heaven so fine That the world will be in love with night’, she loves & adores him so much that she wants to cut him up into little stars & wants everyone to love him as the way she loves him. She says, ‘Give me my Romeo’, Shakespeare uses alliteration, ‘me my’, & Romeo belongs to Juliet & she wants him. When the nurse enters, she is nervous & anxious to tell her something. What the nurse says makes Juliet confused. The nurse is agitated because she has some news & Juliet picks up on this because she asked why she was wringing her hands. When the nurse says, ‘he’s dead’, she doesn’t who’s dead. ‘Who ever would have thought it? Romeo!’ Juliet instinctively thinks that Romeo is dead, when it is Tybalt who is dead. The nurse doesn’t make it clear who is dead. She goes into grief when she hears this. When the nurse says that Tybalt is dead, Juliet comes to the conclusion that both Tybalt & Romeo is dead, ‘ Is Romeo slaughter’d, & is Tybalt dead?’. When the nurse said, ‘Tybalt is gone, & Romeo banished; Romeo that kill’d him, he is banished’, Juliet is in a state of shock. Juliet is first in horror when the nurse mentions the fact that someone is dead, & assumes that it was Romeo, ‘Who ever would have thought it? Romeo!’. She is heart broken because she will never see Romeo again, ‘O break, my heart!’. Then the nurse says that both Tybalt & Romeo are dead. Juliet begs to know who is dead & who is alive. Finally the nurse tells her the proper news, ‘Tybalt is gone, & Romeo banished; Romeo that kill’d him, he is banished’. This leaves her feeling anger. After she realizes that Tybalt is dead & Romeo is banished, she feels anger & betray the vows that she said at her marriage. ‘O serpent heart, hid with a flowering face’, although Romeo looks beautiful & attractive, he is a villain underneath. In this speech, Shakespeare use animal imagery, to show Juliet’s anger towards Romeo, ‘dove-feather’d raven! wolvish-ravening lamb!’. ‘Beautiful tyrant! Fiend angelical!’, Shakespeare used oxymoron as a way to show what he is like. The nurse also turns on Romeo, ‘Shame come to Romeo’. They have only been married for three hours & Juliet already hates Romeo. You feel sympathetic towards him because it wasn’t his fault that he killed Tybalt, he would have died if he didn’t kill Tybalt. Juliet than defends Romeo & regains her loyalty to him. When the nurse starts to betray Romeo, Juliet starts to defend him & tells the nurse to stop it, ‘ Blister’d be thy tongue for such a wish! He was not born to shame’. She admits she was wrong, ‘O, what a beast was I to chide at him!’. The nurse then says why are you speaking well of him when he killed your cousin, ‘Will you speak well of him that kill’d your cousin?’. Juliet replies, ‘Shall I speak ill of him that is my husband?’, should I say rude things about my husband. This also shows us that she is loyal to her husband. She starts to be logical about the situation & finds reasons why he had to kill Tybalt, ‘ My husband lives, that Tybalt would have slain, Ands Tybalt’s dead that would have slain my husband; All this is comfort; wherefore weep I then?’. She chooses Romeo side, instead of Tybalt’s & questions why she ever tormented Romeo. She questions whether or not she has ruined her marriage & she betrayed Romeo, ‘When I, thy three-hours wife, have mangled it?’. Romeo is the most important thing in Juliet will ever have in her life. After the nurse has told her that Romeo is banished, she feels despair& can’t help it, she will never see Romeo again. Since he killed Tybalt, the Prince of Verona banished him from Verona. Juliet has only been married for three hours & her marriage is already over, she can’t see Romeo any more. ‘Back, foolish tears, back to your native spring; your tributary drops belong to woe’, she doesn’t want to cry because she doesn’t want to be sad about the fact she will never see Romeo again. She hates the word ‘banished’, Romeo is more important to her than anyone else, ‘That ‘banished’, that one word ‘banished’’. She asks where’s her mother & father because she wants to know if they are hunting for Romeo. She has no one to go to because she can’t to her mother & father, because they would through her out on the streets if she told them that she has married a Montague, her nurse, because she turned on Romeo, or Romeo, because he’s banished. She can only turn to Friar Laurence, but he has extremely useless plans. Romeo means a lot to her & thinks there is no point of life without Romeo. ‘I’ll to my wedding bed And death, not Romeo, take my maidenhead’, this tells that she will eventually die a virgin. The nurse has to try & stop this by finding Romeo to comfort her, ‘ I’ll find Romeo to comfort you’. Shakespeare ends this scene by leaving Juliet in hope to see Romeo for the last time. I sympathise with Juliet a lot because she has gone through a lot in this on scene, at such a young age. There are many different arguments you can use to show that you do sympathise with her a lot. This is an ironic play because we know what will happen from the prologue, that they will die, so we that they will happen to die sooner or later & we don’t want that to happen to her. Also because this is where the tragedy begins. She is a 13/14 year old girl & she is experiencing many different feelings that she hasn’t felt before & doesn’t know what to do about it. She is in a trauma. She has gotten herself married without letting her parents knowing & to a member of her family’s enemy, a Montague, & when her parents find out, she will be in deep dilemma. Also, the prologue tell us that they are ‘star-crossed lovers’, so their future has been all planned out & there is nothing that they can do about it. This whole play is all about fate, so they can’t change their role in the play. She also has no one to turn to; her parents because they will through her out on the streets if they found out that she married a Montague; the nurse because she turned on Romeo; Romeo because he has been banished from Verona & Friar Laurence because he has useless plans. The only reason the nurse turned on her is to protect the family she live in. her parents are cruel & put their money first instead of their Juliet. There is a contrast between Lord Capulet & Romeo. Lord Capulet is cruel & hates Juliet as Romeo is wonderful & caring & loves Juliet. We see a lot of the of the Capulet family because Shakespeare wants us to hate the Capulet family & how cruel they treat their daughter. The Montague family is kind because at the start of the play, Romeo is upset & their parents ask why he is upset. Shakespeare uses this irony to make us hate the Capulet family, but feel synthetic towards Juliet. This family feud is the reason why they have to secretive. The only reason the Friar married them because he believed that the feud would be over if they got married. The feud was also the reason they had to commit suicide because if Romeo hadn’t killed Tybalt, he wouldn’t have been banished & he could see Juliet. In some cases, people would say Juliet is annoying because she’s always goes over the top about something, but you have to sympathise because if you don’t you won’t understand the story. You can relate to Juliet because we all say awful things to someone, but then say nice things, like when Juliet defended Romeo. In Act 3 Scene 2, Juliet experiences many different emotions & doesn’t know what to do. She feels like she wants to commit suicide, when she realizes that she will never see Romeo again. In this scene, you have to sympathise with Juliet because it isn’t her fault she has to do this, it was their destiny & they can’t help it.