Analyzing Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare

Analyzing Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare

This play is about two star-crossed lovers caught in a family feud.

Act 5 scenes 3 Romeo has come to commit suicide and be with Juliet but

she isn't in actuality dead and Paris has come to lay flowers and

perfumed water. She wakes up to see Romeo and Paris dead commits

suicide to. It is the big dramatic climax of the whole play. It is

dramatically important because of the setting and the language of the

characters witch this essay will demonstrate.

The setting makes the scene dramatic for the reason that it is dark

cold and it's a graveyard. Romeo is there with his Page. There is a

need to put the torch out

"Give me thy torch boy hence and stand aloof. Yet put it out for I

would not be seen."

Because Romeo isn't authorized to be in the graveyard or even the town

because he has been banished which gives an element of secrecy, which

for the audience creates anxiety. As it is a graveyard there is a grim

dark atmosphere.

Inside Romeo meets Paris its murky and gloomy. When Romeo and Paris

fight and then Romeo kills Paris it has a dramatic effect on the

audience. Inside the vault is where the whole of the members of the

Capulet family go to be buried. The setting in the vault is grim and

murky.

The language of the characters portrays the thoughts and feelings of

them in the final scene Paris at first speaks in a sonnet for which

gives a sense of ritual.

"Sweet flower, with flowers thy bridal bead I strew-

O woe, thy canopy is dust and stones-

Which with sweet water nightly I will drew"

Paris is laying flat on the ground, which shows he is trying to avoid

detection. His Page says aside

"I am almost afraid to stand alone here in the church yard, yet I will

adventure"

Romeo in contrast is not afraid in the slightest.