Analysis of Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare
The situation is that Juliet has to face, is that she is married to
Romeo a Montague and her family’s enemy.
In scene one of act three Mercutio fights Tybalt, Mercutio is killed,
and in reaction to this Romeo goes after Tybalt and kills him. This
then leads Romeo to be banished by the Prince. Although Romeo is
banished, Romeo and Juliet still spend their wedding night together.
Juliet feels loved completely because she has Romeo for support, the
Nurse, and she also thinks that her family would continue to take her,
as that is their only child. Juliet is gradually rejected by her
parents, when she turns to the nurse she is told by her that it is
better to marry Paris, so she is gradually getting more and more
isolated from her family. However the dramatic importance in this
scene is that we see Juliet’s inner strength of character, as she does
not give in to her family’s demands. Our impression of Juliet earlier
in the play is that she is very decisive as she had insisted that
Romeo marry her before consulting any of her family or friends, also
she takes no time and asks on their first date which shows she is
decisive an firm. She is not disliked in her family and gets along
with all of them, she may not have good relations with her mother, but
they are still friends.
At the beginning of act three of scene 5 Juliet is at first less sure
and decisive. Juliet persuades Romeo to stay longer as she knows that
they will not see each other for a long time, she talks as if it is
not day and that there is no need to be gone so early. There is
tension because Romeo then stays a bit lon...
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...tter decision by not marrying Paris
because if she did then it would have been an act of bigamy and in her
view; she would have gone to hell.
The dramatic importance of this scene is that Juliet is married to
Romeo and that she cannot marry another person, her family don’t know
this because she kept it a secret from the people she knew would be
against it. The Importance of this scene is that Juliet keeps getting
more and more deserted and she starts to become enemies with the Nurse
and her family, she is pressured by her options on what to do and is
slowly pushed to the edge. Juliet feels that she can’t really cope
anymore and that if all else fails then she will kill herself. The
scene has weighed the balance against Juliet and Romeo. When she next
sees Romeo he is dead and she then commits suicide herself.