Juliet is Lord and Lady Capulet’s daughter. She is about 14 years old. She is an impulsive and very dramatic young lady. We know that she was very romantic as well as Romeo. She has a nurse who has looked after her since she was a baby.
We know that their families have been foes from ages.
The audience is probably feeling many emotions and the expectations could take many avenues at this point. The audience is hopeful at the end of Act I Scene 5 that Romeo and Juliet will defy fate and end up as a happy couple. Even though they know of each other's families at the end of Scene 5, they are willing to defy anyone or anything to be together. This makes the audience feel that despite the foreshadowing in the Prologue using the words: "misadventured" and "death-marked," to name a few, they will still beat the odds.
I think that even though we know Romeo and Juliet is a tragedy, we are also hopeful, as an audience, that love will prevail and will overcome the obstacles. I also think the audience feels that they are on the edge, fearing the worst, but hoping for the best.
Dramatic tension in lines 1-39, act 1 scene 5 is the discussion between Capulet and the second Capulet about Montague’s son-Romeo. When Lord Capulet is listening to what the second Capulet is saying he is suprised. The reason this is dramatic is because the second Capulet is finding out that Romeo is not thirty as he thought, but he is under age.
When Romeo saw Juliet first time he immediately falls in love with her. He is saying :
‘ So shows a snowy dove tropping with crows, as yonder lady o’er her fellows shows’. It means she is more beautiful than the other girls-like a dove among a load of crows. The way he talks about her is very romantic, he is amazed by Juliet. Tis behaviour creates dramatic tension.
Tybalt recognizes Romeo by his voice. He is really angry at him and he wants to fight with him, but Lord Capulet stopped him because he knows it would look bad in front of the guests and it would also ruin the festivities. Shakespeare is using irony to sreate a dramtic and strict tone. In my opinion the audience could expected Tybalt to calm down but he did not do that complately. For example when Tybalt says: ‘ I will withdraw, but this intrusion shall, now seeming sweet, convert to bitterest gall.’ Tybalt have chosen to leave Romeo in that moment but the audience can know that he will be back to Romeo. We are sure Tybalt is not finished with Romeo.
In the next section (Romeo’s and Juliet first conversation) Romeo finds Juliet, he touched her hand. They talk to each otherin sonnet. The author uses a sonnet because it makes it more striking. It also creastes dramatic tone, which perfecly adapt to the romantic scene like this. They started kisssing. However, nurse is calling Juliet because her mother wants to see her. Juliet is gone. Everything is happening so quickly. And then, Romeo and Juliet are finding out the truth about their identities. The nurse tells Romeo that Juliet is a Capulet. He is depressed. At the end of the partz Juliet finds her nurse and begs her to find out who Romeo is. The nurse returns and tells her that he is the only son of the Montaguey family. Juliet is heart broken. She says ‘Prodigious birth of love it is to me, that I must love a loathed enemy’.This makes the scene more intriguing and dramatic.
I think that Shakespeare has successfully made the scene dramatically effective because
of the methods of writing that he used. I mean the way that he used irony as well as in Romeo and Juliet’s first meeting he used a sonnet. I have to tell that It very impressed me. In my opinion it was the most romantic scene in ‘Romeo and Juliet’ and dramatic as well.
Act 1 scene 5 is the part that everything begun. Romeo and Juliet meets and thez fall in love instantly. Then they found out that thez are enemies. From this moment the tragedy is started.
Thez fell in love and there is no returning back.
