the famous love story

The Dramatic Significance of act 1, scene v of Romeo and Juliet

My essay is about Romeo and Juliet. Romeo and Juliet is a very famous love story written by William Shakespeare. The play is set in Italy, in fair Verona. This play is about two lovers. They travel a long journey so that they can be together but their journey ends when they found out their identities that they are great enemies. Romeo was a Montague and Juliet was a Capulet. These two families hated each other so much. This hatred resulted in their children’s death. ‘Here’s much to do with hate, but more with love.’ ‘star crossed lovers.’ a star may be seen as something bright which shows up against the darkness of night sky. This is love which is brilliant but short-lived.

The play open with the servants fighting at the market place. Benvolio tries to stop the fight ‘Part, fools! Put up your swords, you know not what you do.’ He tries to make the peace but Tybalt tried to make the fight continue. ‘What, drawn and talk of peace?’ The Prince Escalus arrived and breaks up the fight, ‘your lives shall pay the forfeit of the peace.’ This is the third fight of recent times ‘Three civil brawls bred of an airy word……Have thrice disturbed the quiet of our streets.’ He’s tired of this, he tries to threatened them by telling them that those who fight in future they will be execaled. Romeo was in love with Rosaline. ‘a right good mark-man! And she’s fair I love.’ Rosaline was the girl that Romeo thinks he is in love with. Juliet’s father agrees to Paris marrying Juliet, ‘but woo her, gentle Paris, get her heart,’ Capulet at first it was difficult for him to agree. When Romeo discovers that Rosaline will be at the Capulet’s feast he decides to gate-crash. ‘My mind misgives……..’ Romeo looks uneasily into the future and has a strong feeling of death. His tone is threatening, filled with bad feelings that death will result from what he begins tonight by going to Capulet’s feast, but when he meets Juliet in the feast, he fall in love at first sight ‘………for I ne’er saw true beauty till this night.’ It seemed that Romeo completely forgot all the infatuations with Rosaline.

Act one scene 5 is the Capulet’s feast the servants were very busy to get the party started. ‘away with…………Anthony and Potpan!’ The servants were getting things ready in order to have a nice feast. Capulet was welcoming the guest ‘welcome, gentlemen………..musicians, play.’ Capulet was very happy and nice to the guest, and he is very different to the mood of violence earlier. Peoples were enjoying the party, some of them were drinking and some of them were dancing, it was very busy in the hall. ‘A hall, a hall, give room! And foot it, girls.’

Lord Capulet first appearance, in the fight at the market place calling for a sword to join in the fight. ‘give me my long sword, ho!’ He is then appears in his house discussing with Paris an arranged marriage. Capulet is the protective person towards his daughter. Juliet is young, a ‘stranger in the world’ but above all she is ‘the hopeful lady of my earth.’ Capulet agree with Paris to marry her daughter but ‘my will to her consent is but a part.’ Capulet accept Romeo’s presence at the feast as an act of kindness. ‘he shall be endured.’

Tybalt appears first when Benvolio tries to separate the fight in act one scene one. He goes for his sword, rejecting Benvolio’s comment ‘keep the peace.’ Tybalt is an aggressive young man ‘I hate the word, as I hate hell, all Montagues and thee.’ he was trying to make the fight continues. Tybalt is forced to stop by the entry and strong words of the Prince Escalus. When heard Romeo’s voice at the Capulet’s feast, he again looks for his sword ‘………by the stock and honour of my kin, to strike him dead, I hold it not a sin.’ He is once more forced to live him alone by Capulet.

At the beginning of the play Romeo noticed that he is in love with Rosaline. ‘out of her favour where I am in love.’ Romeo is miserable because he loves a girl who does not love him ‘with cupid’s arrow, she hath Dian’s wit;’ Romeo continues to protest that his love for Rosaline will never change,‘……….,then turn tears to fires;’ He says that if he did see someone more beautiful than Rosaline, his eyes would burn out because they were liars, ‘transparent heretics, be burnt for liars.’ But then his confusion are immediately vanished when he first sees Juliet and notices how she appears in the dance like a ‘snowy dove trooping with crows.’

Juliet is innocent and young, not quite fourteen years of age. ‘She hath not seen the change of fourteen years;’ her father is interest of protecting her since she is only surviving child ‘earth hath swallowed all my hopes but she.’ When her mother broaches the questions of marriage, Juliet avoids a direct answer, ‘it is an honour that I dream not of.’ when she meets Romeo, at the feast, she is no longer interest. At first she allows Romeo to kiss her. ‘thus from my lips, by thine my sin is purged.’ by the end of the scene Juliet discover the true identity of Romeo ‘my only love sprung from my only hate!’

When Romeo sees Juliet he speaks about her, using metaphor. ‘o, she doth teach the torches to burn bright. It seems she hangs upon the cheek of night. As a rich jewel in an Ethiop’s ear.’ Shakespeare uses figurative language to describe Juliet’s beauty. This sort of direct comparison is known as simile.

‘what’s in a name?…….,take all myself.’ in this line, Juliet is wondering why Romeo’s family name alone makes him unsuitable man to love. Shakespeare uses the soliloquy to enable her to think out loud and reveal deepest feelings.

At the Capulet’s feast Romeo and Juliet meet and fall in love. Romeo and Juliet couldn’t express their love to their families because their families were great enemies. Romeo and Juliet soon find out their true identities ‘……….too early seen unknown, and known to late!’

Act one scene 5, Romeo and Juliet fall in love while Juliet’s father decided that Juliet will be married with Paris and Romeo was in love with Rosaline. Romeo took Benvolio’s advice that cure for love is to look at other girls. ‘examine other beauties.’ And he discover that Rosaline will be at the Capulet’s feast so he decided to gate-crash. The worst thing that happened in the scene is when Romeo meets Juliet and fall in love while they belongs in different families which means Juliet was a Capulet and Romeo was a Montague and they knew that something bad is going to happened to them in the future.