Shakespeare uses Juliet’s monologue to the nurse in act three, scene two, to provide insight into Juliet’s loyalty to her husband, Romeo. Juliet has recently found out that Romeo has murdered her cousin, Tybalt. Juliet’s speech truly shows her dedication to her marriage by deciding to side with her husband, even after the homicide of one of her kin. Her decision here to support Romeo shows that she now really has given up her name for him. She backs her husband, a Montague, over her cousin, a Capulet. This is a brave act of defiance, against her family, showing her potent love for Romeo. Additionally, Shakespeare uses Juliet’s monologue to set up the falling action and show the extreme love between the two teens. Shakespeare shows, in this …show more content…
On lines 107 through 109 Juliet states,, “My husband lives, that Tybalt would have slain, / And Tybalt’s dead, that would have slain my husband.” Juliet prefers Romeo’s slaying of Tybalt, rather than for Tybalt to slay Romeo. She mourns for Romeo’s banishment, instead of Tybalt’s death. Shakespeare is using repetition to put emphasis on the word slain. This word has a great significance to the play because if someone is slain, they are obviously killed. Juliet is so nervous about never seeing Romeo again, she is trying to be rational and recognize her husband is not slain and they can still be together. To accentuate her sorrow at Romeo's banishment she says, “But oh, it presses to my memory, / Like damnèd guilty deeds to sinners' minds.” Shakespeare uses this simile to describe how difficult bearing the banishment was to Juliet by expressing it as a guilt deed that is always on a person's mind, which can consume one’s thoughts. By comparing these two things the audience has a better understanding of Juliet’s conflicted emotions. As Juliet is constantly in pain with the new she has recently received. Again, Juliet shows her concern for Romeo and the fact that he is