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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In this scene many of then characters have different ways in which they speak. The words Romeo and Juliet use are similar to each other. They both mention two themes, love and death as they talk to each other. Shakspeare creates tension in the scene by using what the characters say. When you are watching the play, you always want to know what happens next because it is very interesting.

Lady capullet says as she leaves ‘talk not to me, for I’ll not speak a word. Do as thou wilt, for I have done with thee’.This shows that lady Capulet has no feelings for Juliet because she says that she is done with Juliet and will disown her if she doesn’t do what she says. Lady Cpulet tells Capulet that Juliet refused to marry Paris. Infuriated, Capulet threatens to throw her out of the house if she does not change her mind. A hurdle is a dilemma between two or more people. This is happening in the hatred between the Montagues and Capulets.

Juliet confinds in the nurse about her love for Romeo. This shows that they are extremely close. This is because since Juliet was born the nurse has looked after her. Lady capulet (Juliet’s mother) never played the part as mother. Straight after lady Capulet has left. The nurse advises Juliet to marry Paris because he is ‘a lovely gentleman’ and Romeo is a ‘dishclout to him’. Juliet is calm as the nurse says this. When the nurse leaves Juliet says to herself ‘ancient damnation! O most wicked fiend. Is it more sin to wish me thus forsworn, or to dipraise my lord with that same tongue which she hath praised him with compare so many thousand times? Go, counsellor. Thou and my bosom henceforth shall be twain. I’ll to the friar to know his remedy. If all else fail, myself have power to die’. Juliet pretends to accept the nurses advice but after the nurse leaves Juliet decides she will go to Friar Laurence for his advice. If he can’t help her, she will kill herself is she cannot be with Romeo. After this situation Juliet fells that she cannot trust the nurse anymore. Juliet sees Romeo as her ‘love, lord, husband and friend’ and she will do anything to be with him.

Lord Capulet is a man who likes people to follow his orders, especially people he has power over. Capulet compare Juliet tomany things. ‘…In one little body thou counterfeits a bank, a sea, wind’.