Romeo and Juliet

Romeo and Juliet are destined lovers, unfortunately there is a predicament. Romeo is a Montague and Juliet is a Capulet. The Montagues and the Capulets are rivals. This causes untold problems for the two lovers and fate takes over.

At the beginning of act3 scene 5, Romeo and Juliet have just spent the night together. Juliet is not sure if she will see Romeo again. She talks to Romeo. ‘Othin`st thou we shall ever meet again’. Romeo replies. ‘I doubt it not, and all these woes shall serve foe sweet discourses in our times to come’. Romeo does not want to go because he will do anything for Juliet. He is even ready to be killed for his love. This is ironic because at the end of the play Romeo and Juliet both die. The audience don’t know what will happen yet although the prologue tells us that Juliet speaks of a vision where Romeo is dead in the bottom of a tomb. ’O God, I have an ill divining soul! Methinks I see thee, now thou art so low, as are dead in the bottom of a tomb…’. This gives an idea that Juliet has seen into the future and is worried about what will happen. This is very important because Shakespeare is hinting at what happens next. Romeo’s time is running out. Shakespeare uses dramatic devices to build up tension in the play. For example, lady Capulet calls for Juliet, this makes the audience think that Romeo might get caught because Lady Capulet is on her way to Juliet’s room. As this is going on the tension and climax is building up.

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lady Capulet uses language to illustrate her heartlessness towards Romeo and her indifference towards her daughter. Juliet manipulates the sense behind what her mother is saying. This is because lady Capulet is talking about Romeo in an unpleasant way. Lady Capulet says ‘…traitor murderer lives’. She is explaining that Romeo is a traitor and he doesn’t deserve to be alive. Juliet agrees with her mother. ‘Ay madam, from the reach of these my hands would none but I might venge my cousins death’. Juliet’s words makes lady Capulet believe that Juliet has the same opinion as he but the ...

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