Reasons to be sympathetic?

Age 14

Treated like a possession

Impossible situation

Alone - isolated

Nurse – mother figure betrays her

Dramatic irony = Eliz audiences know it’s tragedy –> she’ll die

Lover banished - Mantua

Solioquy

Forced marriage

Torn between husband and family

Unsympathetic – spoilt?Brat? Tantrum?

Parents - distant

Disowned

How to hit all AFs

• RAF1 and 2: - Selecting information - Make sure quotes are short – even one word quotes – no more than a sentence quoted at any one time

• RAF3: Reading between the lines - Do words/phrases have any vague/ambigious meanings? Try to interpret what the different meanings could be?

How to hit all AFs

• RAF4 – Structure – How does the structure of the scene create sympathy for Juliet? Be sure to mention iambic pentameter regarding length of lines – Does this change? What is the effect?

• RAF5 – Language devices – What gets used here and what is the effect? Foreshadowing, dramatic irony, personification, simile, metaphor, connotations,

How to hit all AFs

• RAF6 – Comment on Shakespeare’s purpose and the effect of the scene on audience: How does the audience feel during this scene/Do our emotions change?

• RAF7 – Relate scene to historical/cultural context – Call upon your knowledge of the time: Daughter/parent relationships (including the role of “nurses”), plague, banishment, religion, general knowledge related to Shakespeare’s staging.

How does Shakespeare create sympathy for Juliet in Act 3 Scene 5?

• Introduction• Section 1: Romeo and Juliet• Juliet and her Nurse• Section 2: Juliet and Lady Capulet• Section 3: Juliet, Lady Capulet and Capuket• Juliet and Lady Capulet• Section 4: Juliet and her Nurse• Juliet – Soliloquy• Conclusion• For each section, consider the interaction of the different characters in

relation to Juliet – our focus here. Try to write about the way the characters use language and the way they behave towards each other. Use plenty of quotations to support your ideas – but short quotations, no more than one line per quote.

How does Shakespeare create sympathy for Juliet in Act 3 Scene 5?

• Introduction: In ‘Romeo and Juliet’ there is an enormous amount of tragic events which allow the play to be both romantic and tragic. There is also the importance of the audience knowing and feeling sorry for Romeo and Juliet because the play is a tragedy and the involvement of romance heightens our empathy for Romeo and Juliet.

How does Shakespeare create sympathy for Juliet in Act 3 Scene 5?

• A3S5 fits into the tragedy genre perfectly because, in this part of the play they first come together physically after getting married in the earlier scene, but Romeo has to leave for Mantua, which causes Juliet distress and in the scene Juliet finds out she is promised to Count Paris. All these events are catastrophic for Romeo and Juliet’s relationship and Juliet’s love for Romeo. Juliet’s world is turned upside down – she loses Romeo because he is banished from Verona immediately after their marriage, her nurse wants her to commit bigamy, her mother is not a person to turn to and her father wants to throw her out onto the street – Juliet goes from being a girl with everything to being left with next to nothing in the space of one scene.

Romeo and Juliet

• Juliet’s introduction matters to the audience so they can see her changing in the play. When Shakespeare first introduces Juliet to the audience in Act 1 Scene 2, Capulet speaks about Juliet saying “My child is yet still a stranger to the world; she hath not seen the change of fourteen years.” Here Shakespeare draws the audience’s attention to Juliet’s innocence – so he is reluctant to allow Juliet to marry. However, in Act 3 Scene 5 she is barely any older yet Capulet changes his mind, having a terrible effect on Juliet.