The Lamentable Feelings in the Audience

Unlike many other plays, Shakespeare has a prologue in the beginning, telling the readers what will happen in the story. Yet, the readers feel sad when the tragedy of the play unfolds. In Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare uses a mixture of diction, false hope, and foreshadowing to get the audience to experience the tragedy of the characters‘ fates.
The way the characters talk and respond to each other causes the plot to be more dramatic. For example, when Romeo just receives news from Friar Lawrence   that he is banished from Verona , he says, “Thou canst not speak of that thou dost not feel. / Wert thou as young as I, Juliet thy love, / An hour but married, Tybalt murdered, / Doting like me, and like me banished, / Then mightst thou speak, then mightst thou tear thy hair / And fall upon the ground as I do now” (3.3.67-73). Romeo tells Friar Lawrence that he shouldn’t talk to him about his situation. Romeo thinks that if Friar Lawrence were he, Friar Lawrence would do the same as him and break down crying. The way Romeo talks shows that he loves Juliet dearly and is very upset that he got banished from Verona. The way the Romeo is phrasing the words together makes the readers visualize what is currently happening and makes the scene more dramatic. The act of throwing oneself to the ground is a dramatic action that shows desperation. Likewise, as soon as she receives news about her upcoming marriage to Paris, Juliet tells Friar Lawrence, “Tell me not, Friar, that thou hearst of this, / Unless thou tell me how I may prevent it. / If in thy wisdom thou canst give no help, / Do thou but call my resolution wise, / And with this knife I’ll help it presently” (4.1.51-55). Juliet is telling Friar Lawrence that if he can’t help her avoid being married to Paris, she will take matters to her own hands and kill herself right then and there. Juliet shows desperation through her words. She is desperate because she is threatening Friar Lawrence to help her steer clear of the...