The next obvious way Shakespeare sets the ‘’forbidden love’’ is he uses the Sunday morning fight scene to show the utter hatred between the Capulets and Montagues which is the start for the meeting of Romeo and Juliet. The audience knows Romeo and Juliet should not be meeting in the first place but although they should not be meeting and that Romeo is forced into a murder the audience is behind him and want Romeo and Juliet to fall in love and live ‘’happily ever after’’
Shakespeare also uses sexual innuendo to keep the audience entertained e.g. Sampson will ‘’thrust’’ Capulets to the wall, he says he will take heads referring to their maidenheads (virginities) and refers to being ‘’able to stand’’ (to have an erect penis) this shows how even the servants of the families even hate each other. They do not realise one of the people they serve will fall in love with one of the women they are talking about
Shakespeare also uses Sunday morning’s fight scene to set the anger and hatred between the Montague’s and the Capulet’s. I also think he does this to inform the audience about the situation of the two families.
E.g., “I will take the wall of any man or maid of the Montague’s.” And “When I have fought with thee, I will be civil with the maids, I will cut off there heads.” Also “Thau villain Capulet, hold me, let me go.” They are all examples informing the audience of the hatred of the Montague’s and Capulet’s.
Shakespeare makes various attitudes to love an marriage shown as a back cloth to the eventual love of Romeo and Juliet, which is so powerful that each is prepared to die than live without the other. Lady Capulet is a materialist. She thinks Paris would make Juliet a Suitable husband he is wealthy and of suitable states. “So shall you share all that he doth posses by having him, making yourself no less.” This breaks most tales of love as the beautiful maiden (Juliet) is supposed to fall in love with the rich handsome man who is approved by their parents (Paris) but in this story Juliet falls in love with the enemy of the family (Romeo) This then turns out to be a classic tale of love by breaking the codes and conventions of a fairytale and turning it into a story of two star-crossed lovers who would rather die than be without one another
In my opinion Shakespeare takes the fairytale aspect and turns it upside down by showing that the fairytale storyline should not be broken, because they would not live ‘’happily ever after’’ Romeo even has premonitions of bad things happening in Act 1 scene 4 but Mercutio and Benvolio persuade him to go. The audience know at this point that eventually this will lead to his death so they know the premonitions are true when Mercutio and Benvolio persuade him there is not.
What happens at the party also leads to Romeo and Juliet falling in love. For example Tybalt sees Romeo and asks lord Capulet if he should throw Romeo out but Capulet forbids him from disturbing the peace. If Romeo had been thrown out he would have never met Juliet and never have fallen in love eventually leading to both their deaths.
