The Significance of Act 3 Scene 5 in Relation to the Mood of William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet

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The Significance of Act 3 Scene 5 in Relation to the Mood of William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet

Act 3 scene 5 is significant because its right in the middle and

therefore it is very critical. The mood of the play up to this scene

is very happy and romantic. After this scene the mood changes, this

makes this scene a turning point. The main themes of this play are

love and hate and light and dark, which I shall talk about later.

In this scene Romeo and Juliet are happy because they are going to be

spending their wedding night together, but they are sad because Romeo

is going to have to leave in the morning and go to exile because he

murdered Tybalt.

The mood of the scene reflects the mood of the play .At the beginning

of the scene, the mood is happy. Gradually through the scene the mood

of the scene worsens. The mood goes from happy to confusion to

violence to sorrow. When Romeo is with Juliet at the start of the

scene the mood is happy because Romeo is spending his wedding night

with Juliet. Then the scene gradually goes into a bit of confusion,

when Lady Capulet thinks Juliet is upset because of the death of her

cousin Tybalt when she actually upset because Romeo has left. Then the

scene becomes violent when Juliet tells her mother that she is not

going to Paris. Capulet steps in at this point and becomes extremely

angry with Juliet. At this point tension starts to build up.

Shakespeare develops this tension by making the pace of the scene

faster by using shorter sentences, exclamation marks and question

marks. We see this when Capulet is in a rage with Juliet and says

'Speak not, reply not, do not answer me!' .The scene ends in sorrow,

when Capulet leaves in a rage and Juliet is in tears. Act 3 scene 5

embodies the moods movement as a whole in the play. The beginning of

the play has a happy mood with Romeo and Juliet seeing each other at

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