Romeo and juliet- star crossed lovers

Shakespeare presents Romeo and Juliet’s love with a matter of urgency and desperation due to the constant interruptions and the use of dramatic irony. Juliet's promise to Romeo to "follow thee my lord throughout the world" is full of dramatic irony and foreshadows the final scene of the play, when their star crossed love forces them to kill themselves. The simple phrase “my lord” would then have been viewed as blasphemous and a very disrespectful thing to say. This therefore exaggerates the passion in Romeo and Juliet’s love as well as their willingness to risk everything to be together. Constant Interruptions from Juliet’s Nurse adds to the atmosphere of intense urgency and determination as the lovers frantically and unwillingly part. This shows how infatuated they are and this passion and anticipation adds builds the tension throughout the rest of the play as Shakespeare’s use of dramatic irony from the prologue (“A pair of star-cross’d lovers take their life”) presents the characters as naïve and unknowing to the audience. This is further exaggerated in the film as the prologue is shown in a very focused and dramatic way forcing in the message that in the end both Romeo and Juliet will be dead. Juliet also questions “What’s in a name?” showing her confusion and re-enforcing that she loves Romeo for being Romeo. This presents her as a very gloomy character as she tends to look on the pessimistic side of their relationship. Juliet focuses on their trouble in being together rather than focusing on the time they have whereas Romeo embraces the little time they have together. This time together though is only spent in privacy, where their love flourishes, rather than in public because of the social barrier put up by the conflict between the two families.