Poor Juliet! She has just spent her wedding night with her husband - whom she has recently learned killed her cousin! Then, after he has headed off to Mantua, our girl gets news that she is being forced to marry Paris. No wonder we should feel sympathy for her.
There are 2 instances where Will uses stage directions to make us feel for Juliet. First, he has her deliver an aside after her mother has just called Romeo a villain. This aside shows the conflict that she feels: "God pardon him! I do, with all my heart; And yet no man like he doth grieve my heart." The use of an aside indicates that Juliet can't share her feelings with her mother on the matter.
Second, at the end of the scene, after the blow up with her dad, Shakespeare has each character exit one at a time (Capulet, Lady Capulet, Nurse) until Juliet is left alone on stage, at which point she decides she will see the friar for help or die. This shows the increasing isolation Juliet feels as her world falls apart.
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