Shakespeare presents a wide range of emotions, atmosphere and characteristics in Act 3, Scene 5. Romeo is portrayed as a love sick, young teen when he says ‘Farewell, farewell! One kiss and I’ll descend.’ This extracted line uses repetition to demonstrate and emphasise that they do not want to part. Romeo says ‘goodbye’ five times to show his reluctance to leave. Shakespeare uses the word ‘kiss’ to imply he is enamoured with Juliet.
Romeo thinks the world of Juliet and displays perilous behaviour when he tells Juliet ‘I have more care to stay than will to go’ and ‘Come death and welcome: Juliet wills it so.’ This shows he is affectionate towards Juliet but he knows he has to leave. Shakespeare personifies death to stipulate to the audience that Romeo does not fear death.
Romeo feels like the day is tearing their love apart. A quotation to support that is ‘Look, love, what envious streaks/Do lace the severing clouds in yonder east’ this personified citation shows the lovers feels that the world revolves around them. It also relates to the theme of light versus dark that runs throughout the play. They can be together at night but now it is day they can not. The powerful word, ‘severing’, shows that they think that the day is violently tearing them apart.
The main character in this scene is Juliet: Shakespeare displays and communicates the diversity of her character. After their night of passion, Juliet tries, pathetically, to cajole Romeo to stay and not to go to Mantua. We know this when it says ‘It is not yet near day:/It was the nightingale, and not the lark,/ That pierced the fearful hollow of thine ear;’ This shows Juliet persistence to convince Romeo to stay, this because they care about each other. It alludes to the theme of light versus dark she persuades Romeo to stay because she does not Romeo to go by saying it is still dark.
Juliet contradicts herself after Romeo says ‘Let’s talk, it is not day’ and claims he will die to stay with her hearing that she says ‘It is, it is, hie hence be gone, away!/It is the lark that sings so out of tune, / straining harsh discords and unpleasing sharps,’ this is because she wants him alive. This exemplifies Juliet’s devotion to Romeo and her exaggeration of the lark’s song shows she is negative to day breaking.
Juliet is quite fatalistic because she says ‘O think’st thou we shall ever meet again?’ she is ambivalent that she will see Romeo again but Romeo is buoyant that he will see her again. This shows that their opposite views are mutually brought together by their love.