Romeo And Juliet Act 1 Scene 5 Essay
Romeo & Juliet: How does Shakespeare engage the attention of the audience in Act 1-Scene 5?
In this essay, I will be exploring how Shakespeare engages the attention of the audience in Act 1, Scene 5. The Capulets and the Montagues hate each other; Romeo is a Montague, but Juliet is a Capulet. This scene takes place when Romeo first lays eyes on Juliet. Romeo and Juliet fall deeply in love; this scene is about when they do just that. Juliet is young, naive and impressionable. “Go ask his name. – if he be married, my grave is like to be my wedding bed” she says to the nurse. She falls in love with Romeo and has her heart set on him as her husband; after meeting him once briefly. This shows she is very easy led; she also believes anything …show more content…
He speaks to Tybalt calmly and cheerily at first; then when Tybalt disagrees. Capulet tells him off in a demeaning manor. “What, Goodman boy, I say he shall, go to! Am I the master here, or you? Go to! You’ll not endure him? God shall mend my soul, you’ll make a mutiny among my guests!” This shows Old Capulet to have more power in the family than Tybalt does. This could either be because of Old Capulet’s age compared to Tybalt’s or be because they are inside Capulet’s mansion. He is the master of the house and therefore of anyone in it; including his own relatives, this would make the audience wonder how he would react if he knew about Romeo and Juliet’s love. Old Capulet uses this speech to show he is fair, but will be forceful if necessary. In reply to this Tybalt says “Patience perforce with wilful choler, meeting makes my flesh tremble in their different greeting: I will with draw, but this intrusion shall, now seeming sweet, convert to bitt’rest gall,” this shows that Tybalt is not going to forget about tonight’s events and will act on his anger at a later time in the
In this essay, I will be exploring how Shakespeare engages the attention of the audience in Act 1, Scene 5. The Capulets and the Montagues hate each other; Romeo is a Montague, but Juliet is a Capulet. This scene takes place when Romeo first lays eyes on Juliet. Romeo and Juliet fall deeply in love; this scene is about when they do just that. Juliet is young, naive and impressionable. “Go ask his name. – if he be married, my grave is like to be my wedding bed” she says to the nurse. She falls in love with Romeo and has her heart set on him as her husband; after meeting him once briefly. This shows she is very easy led; she also believes anything …show more content…
He speaks to Tybalt calmly and cheerily at first; then when Tybalt disagrees. Capulet tells him off in a demeaning manor. “What, Goodman boy, I say he shall, go to! Am I the master here, or you? Go to! You’ll not endure him? God shall mend my soul, you’ll make a mutiny among my guests!” This shows Old Capulet to have more power in the family than Tybalt does. This could either be because of Old Capulet’s age compared to Tybalt’s or be because they are inside Capulet’s mansion. He is the master of the house and therefore of anyone in it; including his own relatives, this would make the audience wonder how he would react if he knew about Romeo and Juliet’s love. Old Capulet uses this speech to show he is fair, but will be forceful if necessary. In reply to this Tybalt says “Patience perforce with wilful choler, meeting makes my flesh tremble in their different greeting: I will with draw, but this intrusion shall, now seeming sweet, convert to bitt’rest gall,” this shows that Tybalt is not going to forget about tonight’s events and will act on his anger at a later time in the