The Importance of Act 1 Scene 5 of
Romeo and Juliet
Shakespeare wrote the play Romeo and Juliet in 1594. The play is set
in Verona, in Northern Italy. Shakespeare was trying to describe a
glamorous place where the audience could believe a tragic love story
might happen. Romeo and Juliet, are doomed from the start, not by
fate, but by their own personalities and by the people that surround
them.The Montagues and Capulets are two feuding families, whose
children meet and fall in love. Romeo and Juliet have to hide their
love from the world because they know that their parents will not
permit them to be together. Throughout the story there are obstacles
in the way of the progression of love, like Juliet's cousin, Tybalt
who is enemies with Romeo and Romeo's friend Mercutio, and also there
are many brawls. It is a timeless story of the "star crossed lovers".
The scene “The Great Hall in Capulet’s mansion” is a very important
scene as it is were Romeo and Juliet meet for the first time and fall
in love immediately. As the play is about love, honour and the
society, There is two key themes that of love and hate
it brings people together and other growing to be enemies.
In the Elizabethan period children had great respect for their parents
and did everything they were told to do
”My lips, two blushing pilgrims,” this indicates that Romeo wants to
start a 'pilgrimage' or journey of love with Juliet and the 'blushing
pilgrims' symbolise his initial embarrassment of kissing her with
passion and his actual lips as well.
Hate, I think, triggers the events of love even though the two
emotions are equal throughout the play. One way in which Shakespeare
puts emphasis on hate is by using sibilance in 'evil' characters
speech like Tybalts lines, 'Why uncle, 'tis a shame,' when he is
talking to Capulet about 'that villain, Romeo and his intrusion to the
party, the audience can put Tybalts hate of Monatgue's and Romeo's
fatal flaw, hot headedness together and they can instantly gather that