Why Is Act 5 Scene 3 Important in Shakespares Play 'Romeo Annd Juliet?

Act 3 scene 5 is a key scene in Romeo and Juliet as it is the scene in which the audience feel most involved. Her emotions have an effect on the audience. The audience is an important part in this scene because they know about the secret of their marriage and there parents don’t, Lord and Lady Capulet & Lord and Lady Montague. In act three scene five Juliet’s emotions change dramatically from ecstatically happy to expressively sad. At the start of the scene Juliet’s emotions are confused because she is sad that Romeo has to leave but she is happy to be with him, to be married, she is happy but secretly sad. The audience can sense she is worried as he will be leaving soon. She tries to convince him to stay. She is also disappointed because the time they have together has finished only too soon. The audience empathise with her as they feel connected to them as they share the secret of their marriage. In this scene Romeo and Juliet’s sentences rhyme this shows their closeness. Juliet opens the scene with a question, ‘wilt thou be gone?’ This shows in depth her distress and frustration. Shakespeare uses a question to emphasise this. He also creates the extended metaphor of a ‘lark’ to show Juliet’s desperation. The lark is a bird that is historically known as the bird sounds in the morning, a bird that has a beautiful song. However Shakespeare uses it as an alarm. That it has come to split them apart. Towards the end of the scene Juliet feels despondent because Romeo has to leave Shakespeare continues to use the ‘lark’ but represent something negative. Juliet remarks how it ‘sings so out of tune.’ She feels dejected because she feels as if nature is against the both of them deliberately trying to separate them. Shakespeare uses nature and in particular daylight to show the irony of this scene. It’s like the daylight has brought darkness upon them. Lady Capulet enters Juliet’s chamber just as Romeo leaves. Juliet is weeping at Romeo's