Romeo & Juliet - In this essay I intend to explain how Juliet's mood changes in Act III, scene V. I will discuss how the other character's moods affect how Juliet's mood changes.

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Romeo & Juliet

In this essay I intend to explain how Juliet’s mood changes in Act III, scene V. I will discuss how the other character’s moods affect how Juliet’s mood changes.

Four hundred years ago, William Shakespeare wrote The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet, a popular play that continues to capture the imagination and emotions of people around the world. The drama portrays the passionate, violent and often desperate lives of the youth of Verona.

Even today, the tragedy resembles a blueprint of the problems that the adolescents of the twentieth century must face each day.

In this play, Shakespeare explores the pitfalls of young love and the consequences they receive from their actions. They explained their love to be true love and they knew that they had to be together, even though their families were enemies and it was truly forbidden for the two of them to marry. The whole idea of love in Romeo’s and Juliet’s thoughts was totally misunderstood, and they demonstrated in many sections of the play that they truly did not know what true love was.

This scene is set in Capulet’s Orchard. “Romeo has just left Juliet for Mantua after spending their wedding night together”. The characters in this scene are: Lady Capulet, Juliet, Capulet and Nurse.

At the beginning of this scene Juliet is in the orchard when Lady Capulet enters. They talk about Tybalts death then, Lady Capulet reveals Juliet’s wedding this Thursday. Juliet doesn’t agree before Capulet arrives and tries to force her. She says she’d rather die than get married to Paris - “make the bridal bed in that dim monument where Tybalt lies.” By the end of the scene the nurse persuades Juliet to get married on Thursday but Juliet has other plans in mind.

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Juliet’s mood starts off as very desperate for Romeo’s love and also very miserable after the murder of her cousin, Tybalt, by Romeo. This is seen right at the beginning of the scene when her mother comes into the orchard to talk to her “Madam, I am not well.” Juliet was also crying before her mother comes in “Yet let me weep for such a feeling loss.”

Juliet still loves Romeo even after he killed her cousin but she keeps it a secret from her parents, this is shown in the text “[Aside] Villain and he be many ...

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