The audience are made to feel increasingly considerate for Juliet as she can not see her life continuing without Romeo. She show this as “then window let day in and life out,” Juliet can not see her life continuing if Romeo goes. This is sympathetic because her only true love is leaving her.
The audience feel more and more sympathetic for Juliet as she has audience vision of Romeo lying dead in audience tomb. Shakespeare shows this as “me thinks I see thee now thou art so low, as one dead in the bottom of the tomb,” as Juliet says this the audience know this will happen. This is dramatic irony. The audience know this happen and feel sorry for Juliet.
The audience feel increasingly sympathetic for Juliet as her mother is very cruel to her by saying “I wish the fool was married to her grave,” this is sympathetic because if audience friend said this you would not be happy but your mother say this would destroy you.
Shakespeare makes the audience feel increasingly considerate for Juliet because she can not be honest with her mother as she says “indeed I never shall be satisfied with Romeo/ dead/ is my poor heart so for a kinsman,” Juliet uses double meaning to her mother. She thinks she said that Juliet would not be satisfied without Romeo dead but Juliet really means that I would never be satisfied without Romeo then she says dead is my kinsman. This is sympathetic because Juliet has to lie to her mother about Romeo.
The audience feel increasingly sympathetic for Juliet as Capulet forces her to get married or he will disown her by saying “get thee to church a Thursday or never after look me in the face, speak not, reply not, do not answer me, my fingers itch,” Capulet terrorizes her to get married but Juliet refuses to get married because if she does she would go to hell. This is sympathetic because Capulet will hit Juliet if she does not get married. This is audience no win situation for Juliet.
The audience feel increasingly sympathetic for Juliet as Capulet in audience rage gives Juliet an ultimatum by saying “go with Paris to saint peters church, or I will drag thee on audience hurdle thither,” this is sympathetic because her father does not give his daughter a choice and that if she does not go she will be dragged there as audience criminal.
Juliet looks for advise and comfort from the nurse but she offers bad advise by saying “fait here it is, Romeo is banished...../I think best you married,” the nurse tells her to get married for the second time as the nurse knows Juliet would be damned to hell. This is sympathetic because the only person Juliet can come to deceives her so Juliet is left alone.
The audience feel increasingly sympathetic for Juliet as when she is alone Juliet damns the nurse by saying “ancient damnation, o most wicked fiend,” Juliet damns the nurse because the nurse deceived Juliet.
The audience feel increasingly sympathetic for Juliet when privately alone Juliet voices her confusion and decides that unless Friar Laurence can help, she will take drastic measures. This is shown as “I’ll to the Friar to know this remedy if all else fail, myself have power to die,” Juliet is left to die unless the Friar can help. At a young age she will commit suicide.
In conclusion, the way Shakespeare makes the audience feel sympathetic for Juliet is that he takes her personal belongings from her. Juliet loses her husband, her parents and the nurse. She is driven from joking with her husband in bed at the start of the scene to in disperse of taking her life if the friar can not help at the end. The audience have no choice to feel increasingly sympathetic in this harrowing scene.
By Umar Latif
