How did Shakespeare create tension in act 1 scene 5 of Romeo and Juliet

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How did Shakespeare create tension in act 1 scene 5 of Romeo and Juliet ?

Romeo has just gate crashed on the Capulet party and no one knows that he is at the party and if he is found by the Capulet he will most likely be killed because of Romeo being a Montague this because earlier in the play the Montague's and Capulet have a fight.

Romeo see Juliet and say "snowy dove trooping with crows" (act 1 scene 5) this tells us that romeo thinks that Juliet stands out from every other person. Tybalt hear Romeos voice and he know romeo is not meant to be at the Capulet party. Tybalt wants romeo gone but lord capulet stops him and tells him off "why, how now, kinsman, wherefore storm you so?..."(act 1 scene 5) he holed this against romeo and wants retribution and calls romeo a "villain" (act 1 scene 5) this time this was a very offensive word to be called. While tension increases romeo and Juliet meet and fall in love the share kisses and proclaim there feelings for each other and how ever they do not realise that they are sworn enemies. The Capulet despise the Montagues' who they have been at war since "ancient times" (prologue) so when the nurse tells Juliet that Romeo is the some of her fathers "great enemy" (act 1 scene 5).this adds to the tension in the play. Immediately after Romeo asks what is her mother and a nurse replies Juliet's mother is "the lady of the house." (act 1 scene 5)this also adds to the tension in the play.

Romeo and Juliet falling in love is a problem because they don't know each others backgrounds but the audience can see they are made for each other by how they talk and how they carry on the conversation in poetry

"ROMEO: Have not saints lips, and holy palmers too?

JULIET: Ay, pilgrim, lips that they must use in prayer.

ROMEO: O, then, dear saint, let lips do what hands do;

They pray, grant thou, lest faith turn to despair.

JULIET: Saints do not move, though grant for prayers' sake.

ROMEO: Then move not, while my prayer's effect I take.

Thus from my lips, by yours, my sin is purged."

(act 1 scene 5)This was used lot in Shakespeare plays.

What also added to the tension is that the ball has been set up for the announcement of pairs proposing to Juliet

"LADY CAPULET: marry, that 'marry' is the very theme

I came to talk of. Tell me, daughter Juliet,

How stands your disposition to be married?...." (act 1 scene 3)

this is a problem because Juliet has fallen in love with Romeo.

Scene 5 is set in a big party in lord Capulet's mansions. He is one of the richest men in Verona. There are servants, musician, dancing, food people dress for a ball and people im mask this would look very dramatic on an Elizabethan theatre and the crowed at the bottom of the stage felt like they where in the play

How did Shakespeare create tension in act 1 scene 5 of Romeo and Juliet ?

Romeo has just gate crashed on the Capulet party and no one knows that he is at the party and if he is found by the Capulet he will most likely be killed because of Romeo being a Montague this because earlier in the play the Montague's and Capulet have a fight.

Romeo see Juliet and say "snowy dove trooping with crows" (act 1 scene 5) this tells us that romeo thinks that Juliet stands out from every other person. Tybalt hear Romeos voice and he know romeo is not meant to be at the Capulet party. Tybalt wants romeo gone but lord capulet stops him and tells him off "why, how now, kinsman, wherefore storm you so?..."(act 1 scene 5) he holed this against romeo and wants retribution and calls romeo a "villain" (act 1 scene 5) this time this was a very offensive word to be called. While tension increases romeo and Juliet meet and fall in love the share kisses and proclaim there feelings for each other and how ever they do not realise that they are sworn enemies. The Capulet despise the Montagues' who they have been at war since "ancient times" (prologue) so when the nurse tells Juliet that Romeo is the some of her fathers "great enemy" (act 1 scene 5).this adds to the tension in the play. Immediately after Romeo asks what is her mother and a nurse replies Juliet's mother is "the lady of the house." (act 1 scene 5)this also adds to the tension in the play.

Romeo and Juliet falling in love is a problem because they don't know each others backgrounds but the audience can see they are made for each other by how they talk and how they carry on the conversation in poetry

"ROMEO: Have not saints lips, and holy palmers too?

JULIET: Ay, pilgrim, lips that they must use in prayer.

ROMEO: O, then, dear saint, let lips do what hands do;

They pray, grant thou, lest faith turn to despair.

JULIET: Saints do not move, though grant for prayers' sake.

ROMEO: Then move not, while my prayer's effect I take.

Thus from my lips, by yours, my sin is purged."

(act 1 scene 5)This was used lot in Shakespeare plays.

What also added to the tension is that the ball has been set up for the announcement of pairs proposing to Juliet

"LADY CAPULET: marry, that 'marry' is the very theme

I came to talk of. Tell me, daughter Juliet,

How stands your disposition to be married?...." (act 1 scene 3)

this is a problem because Juliet has fallen in love with Romeo.

Scene 5 is set in a big party in lord Capulet's mansions. He is one of the richest men in Verona. There are servants, musician, dancing, food people dress for a ball and people im mask this would look very dramatic on an Elizabethan theatre and the crowed at the bottom of the stage felt like they where in the play

How did Shakespeare create tension in act 1 scene 5 of Romeo and Juliet ?

Romeo has just gate crashed on the Capulet party and no one knows that he is at the party and if he is found by the Capulet he will most likely be killed because of Romeo being a Montague this because earlier in the play the Montague's and Capulet have a fight.

Romeo see Juliet and say "snowy dove trooping with crows" (act 1 scene 5) this tells us that romeo thinks that Juliet stands out from every other person. Tybalt hear Romeos voice and he know romeo is not meant to be at the Capulet party. Tybalt wants romeo gone but lord capulet stops him and tells him off "why, how now, kinsman, wherefore storm you so?..."(act 1 scene 5) he holed this against romeo and wants retribution and calls romeo a "villain" (act 1 scene 5) this time this was a very offensive word to be called. While tension increases romeo and Juliet meet and fall in love the share kisses and proclaim there feelings for each other and how ever they do not realise that they are sworn enemies. The Capulet despise the Montagues' who they have been at war since "ancient times" (prologue) so when the nurse tells Juliet that Romeo is the some of her fathers "great enemy" (act 1 scene 5).this adds to the tension in the play. Immediately after Romeo asks what is her mother and a nurse replies Juliet's mother is "the lady of the house." (act 1 scene 5)this also adds to the tension in the play.

Romeo and Juliet falling in love is a problem because they don't know each others backgrounds but the audience can see they are made for each other by how they talk and how they carry on the conversation in poetry

"ROMEO: Have not saints lips, and holy palmers too?

JULIET: Ay, pilgrim, lips that they must use in prayer.

ROMEO: O, then, dear saint, let lips do what hands do;

They pray, grant thou, lest faith turn to despair.

JULIET: Saints do not move, though grant for prayers' sake.

ROMEO: Then move not, while my prayer's effect I take.

Thus from my lips, by yours, my sin is purged."

(act 1 scene 5)This was used lot in Shakespeare plays.

What also added to the tension is that the ball has been set up for the announcement of pairs proposing to Juliet

"LADY CAPULET: marry, that 'marry' is the very theme

I came to talk of. Tell me, daughter Juliet,

How stands your disposition to be married?...." (act 1 scene 3)

this is a problem because Juliet has fallen in love with Romeo.

Scene 5 is set in a big party in lord Capulet's mansions. He is one of the richest men in Verona. There are servants, musician, dancing, food people dress for a ball and people im mask this would look very dramatic on an Elizabethan theatre and the crowed at the bottom of the stage felt like they where in the play

How did Shakespeare create tension in act 1 scene 5 of Romeo and Juliet ?

Romeo has just gate crashed on the Capulet party and no one knows that he is at the party and if he is found by the Capulet he will most likely be killed because of Romeo being a Montague this because earlier in the play the Montague's and Capulet have a fight.

Romeo see Juliet and say "snowy dove trooping with crows" (act 1 scene 5) this tells us that romeo thinks that Juliet stands out from every other person. Tybalt hear Romeos voice and he know romeo is not meant to be at the Capulet party. Tybalt wants romeo gone but lord capulet stops him and tells him off "why, how now, kinsman, wherefore storm you so?..."(act 1 scene 5) he holed this against romeo and wants retribution and calls romeo a "villain" (act 1 scene 5) this time this was a very offensive word to be called. While tension increases romeo and Juliet meet and fall in love the share kisses and proclaim there feelings for each other and how ever they do not realise that they are sworn enemies. The Capulet despise the Montagues' who they have been at war since "ancient times" (prologue) so when the nurse tells Juliet that Romeo is the some of her fathers "great enemy" (act 1 scene 5).this adds to the tension in the play. Immediately after Romeo asks what is her mother and a nurse replies Juliet's mother is "the lady of the house." (act 1 scene 5)this also adds to the tension in the play.

Romeo and Juliet falling in love is a problem because they don't know each others backgrounds but the audience can see they are made for each other by how they talk and how they carry on the conversation in poetry

"ROMEO: Have not saints lips, and holy palmers too?

JULIET: Ay, pilgrim, lips that they must use in prayer.

ROMEO: O, then, dear saint, let lips do what hands do;

They pray, grant thou, lest faith turn to despair.

JULIET: Saints do not move, though grant for prayers' sake.

ROMEO: Then move not, while my prayer's effect I take.

Thus from my lips, by yours, my sin is purged."

(act 1 scene 5)This was used lot in Shakespeare plays.

What also added to the tension is that the ball has been set up for the announcement of pairs proposing to Juliet

"LADY CAPULET: marry, that 'marry' is the very theme

I came to talk of. Tell me, daughter Juliet,

How stands your disposition to be married?...." (act 1 scene 3)

this is a problem because Juliet has fallen in love with Romeo.

Scene 5 is set in a big party in lord Capulet's mansions. He is one of the richest men in Verona. There are servants, musician, dancing, food people dress for a ball and people im mask this would look very dramatic on an Elizabethan theatre and the crowed at the bottom of the stage felt like they where in the play

How did Shakespeare create tension in act 1 scene 5 of Romeo and Juliet ?

Romeo has just gate crashed on the Capulet party and no one knows that he is at the party and if he is found by the Capulet he will most likely be killed because of Romeo being a Montague this because earlier in the play the Montague's and Capulet have a fight.

Romeo see Juliet and say "snowy dove trooping with crows" (act 1 scene 5) this tells us that romeo thinks that Juliet stands out from every other person. Tybalt hear Romeos voice and he know romeo is not meant to be at the Capulet party. Tybalt wants romeo gone but lord capulet stops him and tells him off "why, how now, kinsman, wherefore storm you so?..."(act 1 scene 5) he holed this against romeo and wants retribution and calls romeo a "villain" (act 1 scene 5) this time this was a very offensive word to be called. While tension increases romeo and Juliet meet and fall in love the share kisses and proclaim there feelings for each other and how ever they do not realise that they are sworn enemies. The Capulet despise the Montagues' who they have been at war since "ancient times" (prologue) so when the nurse tells Juliet that Romeo is the some of her fathers "great enemy" (act 1 scene 5).this adds to the tension in the play. Immediately after Romeo asks what is her mother and a nurse replies Juliet's mother is "the lady of the house." (act 1 scene 5)this also adds to the tension in the play.

Romeo and Juliet falling in love is a problem because they don't know each others backgrounds but the audience can see they are made for each other by how they talk and how they carry on the conversation in poetry

"ROMEO: Have not saints lips, and holy palmers too?

JULIET: Ay, pilgrim, lips that they must use in prayer.

ROMEO: O, then, dear saint, let lips do what hands do;

They pray, grant thou, lest faith turn to despair.

JULIET: Saints do not move, though grant for prayers' sake.

ROMEO: Then move not, while my prayer's effect I take.

Thus from my lips, by yours, my sin is purged."

(act 1 scene 5)This was used lot in Shakespeare plays.

What also added to the tension is that the ball has been set up for the announcement of pairs proposing to Juliet

"LADY CAPULET: marry, that 'marry' is the very theme

I came to talk of. Tell me, daughter Juliet,

How stands your disposition to be married?...." (act 1 scene 3)

this is a problem because Juliet has fallen in love with Romeo.

Scene 5 is set in a big party in lord Capulet's mansions. He is one of the richest men in Verona. There are servants, musician, dancing, food people dress for a ball and people im mask this would look very dramatic on an Elizabethan theatre and the crowed at the bottom of the stage felt like they where in the play

How did Shakespeare create tension in act 1 scene 5 of Romeo and Juliet ?

Romeo has just gate crashed on the Capulet party and no one knows that he is at the party and if he is found by the Capulet he will most likely be killed because of Romeo being a Montague this because earlier in the play the Montague's and Capulet have a fight.

Romeo see Juliet and say "snowy dove trooping with crows" (act 1 scene 5) this tells us that romeo thinks that Juliet stands out from every other person. Tybalt hear Romeos voice and he know romeo is not meant to be at the Capulet party. Tybalt wants romeo gone but lord capulet stops him and tells him off "why, how now, kinsman, wherefore storm you so?..."(act 1 scene 5) he holed this against romeo and wants retribution and calls romeo a "villain" (act 1 scene 5) this time this was a very offensive word to be called. While tension increases romeo and Juliet meet and fall in love the share kisses and proclaim there feelings for each other and how ever they do not realise that they are sworn enemies. The Capulet despise the Montagues' who they have been at war since "ancient times" (prologue) so when the nurse tells Juliet that Romeo is the some of her fathers "great enemy" (act 1 scene 5).this adds to the tension in the play. Immediately after Romeo asks what is her mother and a nurse replies Juliet's mother is "the lady of the house." (act 1 scene 5)this also adds to the tension in the play.

Romeo and Juliet falling in love is a problem because they don't know each others backgrounds but the audience can see they are made for each other by how they talk and how they carry on the conversation in poetry

"ROMEO: Have not saints lips, and holy palmers too?

JULIET: Ay, pilgrim, lips that they must use in prayer.

ROMEO: O, then, dear saint, let lips do what hands do;

They pray, grant thou, lest faith turn to despair.

JULIET: Saints do not move, though grant for prayers' sake.

ROMEO: Then move not, while my prayer's effect I take.

Thus from my lips, by yours, my sin is purged."

(act 1 scene 5)This was used lot in Shakespeare plays.

What also added to the tension is that the ball has been set up for the announcement of pairs proposing to Juliet

"LADY CAPULET: marry, that 'marry' is the very theme

I came to talk of. Tell me, daughter Juliet,

How stands your disposition to be married?...." (act 1 scene 3)

this is a problem because Juliet has fallen in love with Romeo.

Scene 5 is set in a big party in lord Capulet's mansions. He is one of the richest men in Verona. There are servants, musician, dancing, food people dress for a ball and people im mask this would look very dramatic on an Elizabethan theatre and the crowed at the bottom of the stage felt like they where in the play

How did Shakespeare create tension in act 1 scene 5 of Romeo and Juliet ?

Romeo has just gate crashed on the Capulet party and no one knows that he is at the party and if he is found by the Capulet he will most likely be killed because of Romeo being a Montague this because earlier in the play the Montague's and Capulet have a fight.

Romeo see Juliet and say "snowy dove trooping with crows" (act 1 scene 5) this tells us that romeo thinks that Juliet stands out from every other person. Tybalt hear Romeos voice and he know romeo is not meant to be at the Capulet party. Tybalt wants romeo gone but lord capulet stops him and tells him off "why, how now, kinsman, wherefore storm you so?..."(act 1 scene 5) he holed this against romeo and wants retribution and calls romeo a "villain" (act 1 scene 5) this time this was a very offensive word to be called. While tension increases romeo and Juliet meet and fall in love the share kisses and proclaim there feelings for each other and how ever they do not realise that they are sworn enemies. The Capulet despise the Montagues' who they have been at war since "ancient times" (prologue) so when the nurse tells Juliet that Romeo is the some of her fathers "great enemy" (act 1 scene 5).this adds to the tension in the play. Immediately after Romeo asks what is her mother and a nurse replies Juliet's mother is "the lady of the house." (act 1 scene 5)this also adds to the tension in the play.

Romeo and Juliet falling in love is a problem because they don't know each others backgrounds but the audience can see they are made for each other by how they talk and how they carry on the conversation in poetry

"ROMEO: Have not saints lips, and holy palmers too?

JULIET: Ay, pilgrim, lips that they must use in prayer.

ROMEO: O, then, dear saint, let lips do what hands do;

They pray, grant thou, lest faith turn to despair.

JULIET: Saints do not move, though grant for prayers' sake.

ROMEO: Then move not, while my prayer's effect I take.

Thus from my lips, by yours, my sin is purged."

(act 1 scene 5)This was used lot in Shakespeare plays.

What also added to the tension is that the ball has been set up for the announcement of pairs proposing to Juliet

"LADY CAPULET: marry, that 'marry' is the very theme

I came to talk of. Tell me, daughter Juliet,

How stands your disposition to be married?...." (act 1 scene 3)

this is a problem because Juliet has fallen in love with Romeo.

Scene 5 is set in a big party in lord Capulet's mansions. He is one of the richest men in Verona. There are servants, musician, dancing, food people dress for a ball and people im mask this would look very dramatic on an Elizabethan theatre and the crowed at the bottom of the stage felt like they where in the play

How did Shakespeare create tension in act 1 scene 5 of Romeo and Juliet ?

Romeo has just gate crashed on the Capulet party and no one knows that he is at the party and if he is found by the Capulet he will most likely be killed because of Romeo being a Montague this because earlier in the play the Montague's and Capulet have a fight.

Romeo see Juliet and say "snowy dove trooping with crows" (act 1 scene 5) this tells us that romeo thinks that Juliet stands out from every other person. Tybalt hear Romeos voice and he know romeo is not meant to be at the Capulet party. Tybalt wants romeo gone but lord capulet stops him and tells him off "why, how now, kinsman, wherefore storm you so?..."(act 1 scene 5) he holed this against romeo and wants retribution and calls romeo a "villain" (act 1 scene 5) this time this was a very offensive word to be called. While tension increases romeo and Juliet meet and fall in love the share kisses and proclaim there feelings for each other and how ever they do not realise that they are sworn enemies. The Capulet despise the Montagues' who they have been at war since "ancient times" (prologue) so when the nurse tells Juliet that Romeo is the some of her fathers "great enemy" (act 1 scene 5).this adds to the tension in the play. Immediately after Romeo asks what is her mother and a nurse replies Juliet's mother is "the lady of the house." (act 1 scene 5)this also adds to the tension in the play.

Romeo and Juliet falling in love is a problem because they don't know each others backgrounds but the audience can see they are made for each other by how they talk and how they carry on the conversation in poetry

"ROMEO: Have not saints lips, and holy palmers too?

JULIET: Ay, pilgrim, lips that they must use in prayer.

ROMEO: O, then, dear saint, let lips do what hands do;

They pray, grant thou, lest faith turn to despair.

JULIET: Saints do not move, though grant for prayers' sake.

ROMEO: Then move not, while my prayer's effect I take.

Thus from my lips, by yours, my sin is purged."

(act 1 scene 5)This was used lot in Shakespeare plays.

What also added to the tension is that the ball has been set up for the announcement of pairs proposing to Juliet

"LADY CAPULET: marry, that 'marry' is the very theme

I came to talk of. Tell me, daughter Juliet,

How stands your disposition to be married?...." (act 1 scene 3)

this is a problem because Juliet has fallen in love with Romeo.

Scene 5 is set in a big party in lord Capulet's mansions. He is one of the richest men in Verona. There are servants, musician, dancing, food people dress for a ball and people im mask this would look very dramatic on an Elizabethan theatre and the crowed at the bottom of the stage felt like they where in the play

How did Shakespeare create tension in act 1 scene 5 of Romeo and Juliet ?

Romeo has just gate crashed on the Capulet party and no one knows that he is at the party and if he is found by the Capulet he will most likely be killed because of Romeo being a Montague this because earlier in the play the Montague's and Capulet have a fight.

Romeo see Juliet and say "snowy dove trooping with crows" (act 1 scene 5) this tells us that romeo thinks that Juliet stands out from every other person. Tybalt hear Romeos voice and he know romeo is not meant to be at the Capulet party. Tybalt wants romeo gone but lord capulet stops him and tells him off "why, how now, kinsman, wherefore storm you so?..."(act 1 scene 5) he holed this against romeo and wants retribution and calls romeo a "villain" (act 1 scene 5) this time this was a very offensive word to be called. While tension increases romeo and Juliet meet and fall in love the share kisses and proclaim there feelings for each other and how ever they do not realise that they are sworn enemies. The Capulet despise the Montagues' who they have been at war since "ancient times" (prologue) so when the nurse tells Juliet that Romeo is the some of her fathers "great enemy" (act 1 scene 5).this adds to the tension in the play. Immediately after Romeo asks what is her mother and a nurse replies Juliet's mother is "the lady of the house." (act 1 scene 5)this also adds to the tension in the play.

Romeo and Juliet falling in love is a problem because they don't know each others backgrounds but the audience can see they are made for each other by how they talk and how they carry on the conversation in poetry

"ROMEO: Have not saints lips, and holy palmers too?

JULIET: Ay, pilgrim, lips that they must use in prayer.

ROMEO: O, then, dear saint, let lips do what hands do;

They pray, grant thou, lest faith turn to despair.

JULIET: Saints do not move, though grant for prayers' sake.

ROMEO: Then move not, while my prayer's effect I take.

Thus from my lips, by yours, my sin is purged."

(act 1 scene 5)This was used lot in Shakespeare plays.

What also added to the tension is that the ball has been set up for the announcement of pairs proposing to Juliet

"LADY CAPULET: marry, that 'marry' is the very theme

I came to talk of. Tell me, daughter Juliet,

How stands your disposition to be married?...." (act 1 scene 3)

this is a problem because Juliet has fallen in love with Romeo.

Scene 5 is set in a big party in lord Capulet's mansions. He is one of the richest men in Verona. There are servants, musician, dancing, food people dress for a ball and people im mask this would look very dramatic on an Elizabethan theatre and the crowed at the bottom of the stage felt like they where in the play

How did Shakespeare create tension in act 1 scene 5 of Romeo and Juliet ?

Romeo has just gate crashed on the Capulet party and no one knows that he is at the party and if he is found by the Capulet he will most likely be killed because of Romeo being a Montague this because earlier in the play the Montague's and Capulet have a fight.

Romeo see Juliet and say "snowy dove trooping with crows" (act 1 scene 5) this tells us that romeo thinks that Juliet stands out from every other person. Tybalt hear Romeos voice and he know romeo is not meant to be at the Capulet party. Tybalt wants romeo gone but lord capulet stops him and tells him off "why, how now, kinsman, wherefore storm you so?..."(act 1 scene 5) he holed this against romeo and wants retribution and calls romeo a "villain" (act 1 scene 5) this time this was a very offensive word to be called. While tension increases romeo and Juliet meet and fall in love the share kisses and proclaim there feelings for each other and how ever they do not realise that they are sworn enemies. The Capulet despise the Montagues' who they have been at war since "ancient times" (prologue) so when the nurse tells Juliet that Romeo is the some of her fathers "great enemy" (act 1 scene 5).this adds to the tension in the play. Immediately after Romeo asks what is her mother and a nurse replies Juliet's mother is "the lady of the house." (act 1 scene 5)this also adds to the tension in the play.

Romeo and Juliet falling in love is a problem because they don't know each others backgrounds but the audience can see they are made for each other by how they talk and how they carry on the conversation in poetry

"ROMEO: Have not saints lips, and holy palmers too?

JULIET: Ay, pilgrim, lips that they must use in prayer.

ROMEO: O, then, dear saint, let lips do what hands do;

They pray, grant thou, lest faith turn to despair.

JULIET: Saints do not move, though grant for prayers' sake.

ROMEO: Then move not, while my prayer's effect I take.

Thus from my lips, by yours, my sin is purged."

(act 1 scene 5)This was used lot in Shakespeare plays.

What also added to the tension is that the ball has been set up for the announcement of pairs proposing to Juliet

"LADY CAPULET: marry, that 'marry' is the very theme

I came to talk of. Tell me, daughter Juliet,

How stands your disposition to be married?...." (act 1 scene 3)

this is a problem because Juliet has fallen in love with Romeo.

Scene 5 is set in a big party in lord Capulet's mansions. He is one of the richest men in Verona. There are servants, musician, dancing, food people dress for a ball and people im mask this would look very dramatic on an Elizabethan theatre and the crowed at the bottom of the stage felt like they where in the play

How did Shakespeare create tension in act 1 scene 5 of Romeo and Juliet ?

Romeo has just gate crashed on the Capulet party and no one knows that he is at the party and if he is found by the Capulet he will most likely be killed because of Romeo being a Montague this because earlier in the play the Montague's and Capulet have a fight.

Romeo see Juliet and say "snowy dove trooping with crows" (act 1 scene 5) this tells us that romeo thinks that Juliet stands out from every other person. Tybalt hear Romeos voice and he know romeo is not meant to be at the Capulet party. Tybalt wants romeo gone but lord capulet stops him and tells him off "why, how now, kinsman, wherefore storm you so?..."(act 1 scene 5) he holed this against romeo and wants retribution and calls romeo a "villain" (act 1 scene 5) this time this was a very offensive word to be called. While tension increases romeo and Juliet meet and fall in love the share kisses and proclaim there feelings for each other and how ever they do not realise that they are sworn enemies. The Capulet despise the Montagues' who they have been at war since "ancient times" (prologue) so when the nurse tells Juliet that Romeo is the some of her fathers "great enemy" (act 1 scene 5).this adds to the tension in the play. Immediately after Romeo asks what is her mother and a nurse replies Juliet's mother is "the lady of the house." (act 1 scene 5)this also adds to the tension in the play.

Romeo and Juliet falling in love is a problem because they don't know each others backgrounds but the audience can see they are made for each other by how they talk and how they carry on the conversation in poetry

"ROMEO: Have not saints lips, and holy palmers too?

JULIET: Ay, pilgrim, lips that they must use in prayer.

ROMEO: O, then, dear saint, let lips do what hands do;

They pray, grant thou, lest faith turn to despair.

JULIET: Saints do not move, though grant for prayers' sake.

ROMEO: Then move not, while my prayer's effect I take.

Thus from my lips, by yours, my sin is purged."

(act 1 scene 5)This was used lot in Shakespeare plays.

What also added to the tension is that the ball has been set up for the announcement of pairs proposing to Juliet

"LADY CAPULET: marry, that 'marry' is the very theme

I came to talk of. Tell me, daughter Juliet,

How stands your disposition to be married?...." (act 1 scene 3)

this is a problem because Juliet has fallen in love with Romeo.

Scene 5 is set in a big party in lord Capulet's mansions. He is one of the richest men in Verona. There are servants, musician, dancing, food people dress for a ball and people im mask this would look very dramatic on an Elizabethan theatre and the crowed at the bottom of the stage felt like they where in the play

How did Shakespeare create tension in act 1 scene 5 of Romeo and Juliet ?
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Romeo has just gate crashed on the Capulet party and no one knows that he is at the party and if he is found by the Capulet he will most likely be killed because of Romeo being a Montague this because earlier in the play the Montague's and Capulet have a fight.

Romeo see Juliet and say "snowy dove trooping with crows" (act 1 scene 5) this tells us that romeo thinks that Juliet stands out from every other person. Tybalt hear Romeos voice and he know romeo is not meant to be at the Capulet ...

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