The language used in the Romeo and Juliet act3 scene5 is very dramatic. There is a lot of emotive speech in the scene. At the start of the scene Juliet hears a lark but tries to persuade Romeo it’s a nightingale, “wilt thou be gone? It is not yet near day. It was the nightingale, and not the lark, that pierced the fearful hollow of thine ear. Nightly she sings on yond pomegranate tree. Believe me, love, it was the nightingale”. This shows That Juliet doesn’t want Romeo to go. However when Romeo says that he will stay and face death because Juliet wills it so, she gets scared and hurry’s him to leave. “Let me ta’en, let me be put to death – I am content, so thou wilt have it so”.
When Romeo is telling Juliet about how he will stay and face death to stay with Juliet, the nurse enters to warn them lady Capulet is coming. She then hurries Romeo to leave so he isn’t caught by lady Capulet. After Romeo leaves lady Capulet enters to tell Juliet she has to marry Paris “well, well, thou hast a careful father, child-one who, to put thee from thy heaviness, hath sorted out a sudden day of joy that thou expects not, nor I looked not for”. Juliet then replies “madam, in what happy time! What day is that?” Lady Capulet then replies by telling Juliet that she is going to be married to Paris at Saint Peters church. Lord Capulet then enters to see how Juliet has taken the news; he is surprised to hear what lady Capulet says when he asks “Ay, sir- but she will none, she gives you thanks. I would the fool were married to her grave!” lord Capulet then gets really angry and starts to insult Juliet calling her names such as green-sickness carrion, tallow face, young baggage, disobedient wretch. The nurse then gets involved telling lord Capulet that he is to blame for everything going on, which a traditional audience wouldn’t have expected
