About my character and the way of portraying her

I am playing Juliet, in the Act 5 scene 3. At this moment, she has just said goodbye to her banished husband and left the feeling of lost and hurt. I am going to use as many facial expressions as possible to show her sadness at the being of the scene. Make my body looks heavy and tired to create a feeling of depressed and lost. What is going to happen in the scene is that her parents will come in her room to let that she has to marry Paris on Thursday; otherwise, she does not belong to this family any more. This is a very dramatic scene will is challenging how strong Juliet’s heart is, and definitely this news will beat her so down, so she is mad and frustrated in this scene. What I need to is to focus on the big change of Juliet’s emotions when she knows the news. 

The Juliet’s overarching goal is to be together with Romeo happily forever, and their marriage can receive best wishes from both families which can stop the generations fighting between them. If we focus on this scene, her motivations are changing following the waving of the plots. At first, she does not want Romeo to leave, and she has already started missing him right after he left. Then when her mother tells her that she is going to assign someone to poison Romeo secretly, for reaching the goal of seeing Romeo again, she responds her mother as she wants to be the one to kill Romeo in person. By doing so, she also wants to protect Romeo from being poisoned by the murder. Under this condition, she could not speak her true feeling out because she needs to think of her parents’ position, enemies of her lover, so she can only speak out her heart in a foreshadowing way which makes her words sound conversely to her mother. So I need to pay attention on my intonation to make sure it is high, waving and weird which will let it sound a little bit sarcastic. Because audiences know what does Juliet really mean when she says those things about killing Romeo but her mother does not. Therefore, it is important to control the way of saying that. 

 However, Juliet’s emotions could not stay in control after the news of marriage brings up. She is completely shocked and cannot hold herself together. So at this moment, her motivation changes to avoid being married Paris. Actually, this is a very tough goal, for she could not tell her parents the truth that she has already married Romeo, and if she marries Paris, she is double married. And she has no reason but her cousin’s death to convince or persuade her parents. In fact, she cannot even delay it. In order to reach her goal, she cries horribly to beg her mother and father. Here, I need to show how much Juliet does not want to marry Paris. I have to really open her up because she is crazy at that moment. Cry is the basic thing that I need to do in order to portray my character. 

 At the end of the scene, although Juliet tried so hard, sadly, the obstacles are too big to remove; as a result, she failed to change her parents’ minds. And this result leads to the following plots of finding Fair Lawrence for help.