Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare

Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare

In this essay I’m going to analyse a main scene from Romeo and Juliet

which is Act 3 Scene V. Romeo and Juliet just got married in secret in

Friar Lawrence’s cell and spent the night together as now Romeo is

banished from Verona, because of Tybalt’s death. This includes many

major themes such as conflict, appearance and reality, love, family

pressures, time and fate mostly because of conflict between the

Montagues and the Capulets and love because of Romeo and Juliet. All

of these contribute to the tragedy of the death of Romeo and Juliet.

Also the structure of the essay will be in duologue’s as in this scene

two people are always talking to each other. For this essay it will

show a dramatic effect mostly on the audience as the play has many

examples of dramatic irony especially when the actors say phrases that

predicts what is going to happen eventhough they don’t know yet. Most

dramatic affects will come from the duologue, structure and the main

themes.

At dawn on Tuesday morning, Romeo and Juliet make their final

exchanges of the love before Romeo leaves for Mantua. Once again, the

dawn divides Romeo and Juliet, this time, for good. As the sun’s rays

‘lace the severing clouds’, Juliet wishes the sound of the morning

lark were actually the call of the nightingale. Juliet tries to deny

the arrival of the coming day to prolong her time with Romeo. Their

language is passionate and intense as Romeo agress to stay and face

his death. As in previous scence, Romeo and Juliet’s love flourishes

in the dark, but daylight brings seperation and ill fortune : Juliet

says reluctantly, ‘window, let day in, and let life out’.

As Romeo comes down from the balcony, Juliet get’s a horrible vision

of Romeo ‘as one dead in the bottom off a tomb’. This image will come

true in the final scene when Juliet awakens from her drug – induced

sleep to find Romeo dead on the floor of the Capulet tomb.