Review of the Balcony Scene in William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet

Review of the Balcony Scene in William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet

The balcony scene is a key part in Romeo and Juliet as it shows there

love for each other for the first time. The balcony scene is after the

masked ball in that Romeo and Juliet first meet and through the scene

they declare their love and promise marriage.

The love between Romeo and Juliet is quite sudden as they meet in one

night and in that same night they declare their love to each other and

decide to get married. The first time Romeo sets eyes on Juliet it

seems he is in love as he is keen to ask as much as he can about her.

He starts his elaborate descriptions of her before he has even spoken

to her, like when he says 'a jewel in an Ethiop's ear,' which is

comparing her to something extremely beautiful.

Romeo straight away tells Juliet he wants to kiss her but in a

descriptive language as he says, 'my lips, two blushing pilgrim, ready

stand to smooth that rough touch with a tender kiss.' Juliet replies

very cleverly showing her maturity and that she is actually very

clever as she says, 'palm to palm is holy palmer's kiss.' Here she is

playing with words and saying by touching hands is a pilgrims way of

kissing, which teases Romeo. Together they play with words until Romeo

finally does kiss her. They talk about the same thing but in different

ways and play with the words. Romeo is in mid-paragraph when he kisses

her and after he finishes his paragraph. Juliet tells Romeo 'you kiss

by the book' which she is joking with him about as she is suggesting

he has been reading a book on how to be a perfect kisser.

Through their conversation we see a real chemistry ...

... middle of paper ...

... is quick to abandon

his friends when something better comes along, i.e. Juliet.

We also find out more about Juliet's family and her nurse maid as

Juliet talks about her family and we hear her nurse calling Juliet

from inside the house. Her family seem to be very protective over

Juliet as she says to Romeo, 'if they see thee they will murder thee',

which is quite a big thing to do just because he is Romeo and is

talking to Juliet. Her nurse in this scene calls on her three times

which shows her to be a bossy, loud character as she keeps calling

Juliet and it shows she is shouting quite loud because of the

exclamation mark at the end of each of her words when she calls,

'Madam!'

Overall this scene is extremely important and is a key for developing

Romeo and Juliet's love for each other and also their characters.