The Ways Shakespeare Makes Act Three Scene Five Full of Tension and Exciting for the Audience

The Ways Shakespeare Makes Act Three Scene Five Full of Tension and Exciting for the Audience

This scene is very important because throughout it, Juliet continues

to become evermore isolated emotionally and also physically, first of

all by Romeo leaving, next by her mother and father abandoning her

when she refuses to marry Paris and very lastly by the Nurse’s

betrayal. All of these actions raise the tension and therefore make it

an exciting scene for the audience. Juliet’s isolation captures the

audiences’ attention and makes the audience feel sorry for Juliet

throughout the rest of the play.

At the beginning of the scene, the mood is romantic because they have

just spent the night together as man and wife. Then as dawn breaks and

sun rises the mood changes, Romeo and Juliet get very confused, “Yond

daylight is not daylight, I know it” and Juliet gets upset that Romeo

must leave.

Romeo relates to death by saying “more light and light, more dark and

dark our woes”. This indicates that the longer Romeo stays and the

lighter the morning becomes, the harder it is going to be to escape to

Mantua because he would be caught and put to death.

The more Romeo and Juliet talk, and the longer they take to part, the

larger the amount of tension in the audience because they are worried

that Romeo will be discovered.

Juliet imagines she sees Romeo dead in the bottom of a tomb, of course

as the audience, we know, because of the prologue that Romeo does die

and Juliet does see him dead in the Capulet’s vault where Tybalt lies.

This is an example of dramatic irony.

Lady Capulet enters, and discovers Juliet crying. Juliet says,

“Feeling so the loss, I cannot choose but ever weep the friend”. This

has a double meaning – Juliet deliberately says these words to mean

two different things; firstly not to let her mother know that she

mourns for Romeo and secondly so that her mother thinks she is weeping

for Tybalt.