Character Development In Romeo And Juliet

In the play “Romeo & Juliet” shakespeare portrayed all aspects of love throughout different characters. Each character carries its own meaning of love which is what makes this play unique. Romeo,Nurse, and Tybalt all represent divergent love.The word Love can come in all sorts of ways which is why it is such a diverse word. Love is a powerful term that can be portrayed as deep affection, devotion, and even heartbreak.

In the early stages of Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare conveys love in many different ways. Love is shown as being imperfect, such as bawdy love, unrequited love and fatherly and maternal love, this contrasts greatly to Romeo and Juliet’s pure, perfect and requited love, and makes it seem all the more true before it is shown to be deadly.

When Juliet finds out that Tybalt has been killed and Romeo is in exile, for killing Tybalt, Juliet feels both passionate about Romeo and disappointed in both Romeo and herself, which reveal her inner struggle. In Act 3, Juliet’s Nurse comes back with this news that Tybalt is dead and that Romeo is such an awful person for killing him. Juliet fights back at the Nurse, and herself, for speaking bad about Romeo. She claims, ““Shall I speak ill of him that is my husband? Ah, poor my lord, what tongue shall smooth thy name, When I, thy three hours' wife, have mangled it? But wherefore, villain, didst thou kill my cousin? That villain cousin would have killed my husband.” (3.2.99-101). This shows that Juliet is passionate about Romeo, because first of all, she says that she was wrong to say bad things about her husband.

Romeo is portrayed as an emotional and reckless character. His friend Mercutio and Fr. Lawrence comment on Romeo’s fickle attitude when he immediately falls in love with Juliet completely forgetting about Rosaline, his first love. Romeo quotes,” Did my heart love until now? Foreswear it sight, for I never saw true beauty until this night”. His love for Rosaline was superficial. Juliet transforms Romeo’s immature and erotic infatuation to true and constant love. After meeting Juliet he matures very quickly. Maybe Romeo’s love for Juliet is so intense because unlike Rosaline, Juliet reciprocates his

Lord Capulet is very concerned that his daughter is too young to be married. He believes that she is still naive and has not adequately experienced enough in the world to be a great bride. For this reason, Lord Capulet denied Paris’ request in marriage. This demonstrates that Lord Capulet was protective of his daughter, and acts accordingly for the sake of her well-being. Juliet affirms her father’s decision, and in this way, allowing her to be obedient and loving to him. Lord Capulet’s responsible actions please Juliet to become obedient.

After talking to Romeo on the balcony, Juliet says to him, “If that thy bent of love be honorable, / Thy purpose marriage, send me word tomorrow.” (2.2, L. 150). In other words, she is telling Romeo that if he truly loves her, he must propose. She is not indirect about what she wants, and it is shown that she is determined to get it. Another situation is as Friar tries to get Juliet to leave with him, she says,“Go get thee hence, for I wilt not away....”(Act 5.3, Line 165). Even after the Friar begs, she sticks with her feelings and will not change her decision unless she wants to. At this moment in the story, Juliet is about to face her death, yet till the very end, she stays loyal to her own decisions. Lastly, when she tells her wishes to the Friar about her wedding, she shows her determination yet again as she says, “O, bid me leap, rather than marry Paris, From off the battlements of any tower, Or walk in thievish ways, or bid me lurk. Where serpents are. Chain me with roaring bears, Or hide me nightly in a charnel house, O’ercovered quite with dead men’s rattling bones, With reeky shanks and yellow chapless skulls. Or bid me go into a new-made grave And hide me with a dead man in his shroud, And I will do it without fear or doubt, To live an unstained wife to my sweet love.”(4.1, L. 78). Though her parents want her to marry Paris, she would rather endure very risky situations. She is

Juliet proves that emotion is the enemy of decision making through her actions with Friar Lawrence and her family. Capulet pressures Juliet to marry Paris at the church on Thursday, but Juliet persistently declines. After Juliet’s fight with Capulet and Lady Capulet, she states, “I’ll to the Friar to know his remedy. If all else fails, myself have power to die” (3.5.242-243). Juliet is explaining her last resort if all else fails. Instead of Juliet contemplating about her own death, she should have considered making other plans to resolve her issues. Additionally, Juliet goes on to to drink a potion that makes her seem dead for two days so that she will be able to be with Romeo, who was banished from Verona. Friar Lawrence gives the potion to Juliet saying, “Take thou this vial, being then in bed, and this distilled liquor drink thou off, when presently through all thy veins shall run a cold and drowsy humor, for no pulse shall keep his native progress, but surcease” (4.1.96-100). Juliet then accepts the potion stating, “Give me, give me! O, tell not me fear!” (4.1.124). Juliet lets her love for Romeo rein supreme and influence her to drink something that could kill her, just so that she could be with Romeo. Because Juliet caved in, she will pay for her mistakes

In “The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet” the younger generation, Romeo, Juliet, and Paris, and the older generation, Nurse, Capulets, and Friar, both had similarities and differences which had caused the end. They had a similar opinion on things going on and different opinions ones others. In the tragedy, the main characters died which was influenced by the older generations because they have similar and different opinions which all led the younger ones to death.

I am heartbroken over the deaths of my master and friend, Romeo, Juliet, who brought Romeo great happiness, and county Paris, who I knew to be a very honorable man. I hope that this court session will bring justice for Romeo, Juliet, and Paris. To help bring this justice, I will truthfully tell you all that I know.

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Juliet is not unlike the typical young women constantly struggling to find happiness and acceptance from those who are closest to her. Young Juliet must confront the harsh reality that exists between her and those who profess to be her friends and family, which is they failed to support her, love her, and lift her up with she needed it most. In the timeless book, “Romeo & Juliet” William Shakespeare writes a moving story about the betrayal, disappointment, love, and eventual death of Romeo and Juliet. No reader can truly appreciate and understand the level of Juliet’s struggles without first understanding the roles the Lord Capulet, Friar Lawrence and Romeo, their betrayal and their role in her faithful decision.

The death of his newly wed wife makes Romeo commit a rash decision. Which begins when Balthasar rushes to him saying, “Her body sleeps in Capels' monument, / And her immortal part with angels lives. / I saw her laid low in her kindred’s vault” (Shakespeare 5.1.18-20). The loss his best friend and the news of his wife’s death resorts Romeo to ending his life. He does not take a few minutes to grief. Instead, the impact that the news has on him takes control and ruins his thought of the kind of life he expects to have with Juliet. Romeo’s hastiness appears once again when he decides to end his life to be with his only love. When he believes that Juliet is dead, Romeo says, “Come, bitter conduct, come, unsavoury guide! /...Here’s to my love!” (Shakespeare 5.3.116-119). This proves that Romeo acts without thinking. He does not think to counsel with the Friar and try to understand what is going on. He immediately jumps to conclusion by poisoning himself to be with Juliet. As a result of Romeo’s imprudent decision, Juliet makes a reckless decision of her own. When she finds the dagger, she says: “O happy dagger, / This is thy sheath; (Stabs herself )/ there rust, and let me die (Shakespeare 5.3.161-167/169-170). Juliet is stunned when she finds Romeo lying dead beside her. She immediately stabs herself without thinking, not wanting frighten everyone if she is found alive. This is another time that

This is a clear depiction of a change in Juliet’s allegiance - from her own family to Romeo himself. Juliet does not care about her family’s best wishes or opinions, and is willing to deceive them in order to be with Romeo. Moreover, her further defiance towards her parents’ best wishes is evident when Lord Capulet demands for Juliet to marry Paris. Instead of obediently agreeing to do so, as she was depicted to do towards the beginning of the play, Juliet states, “if all else fail, myself have power to die”. This depicts that Juliet is willing to kill herself, if it means that she does not have to marry Paris. This is in clear defiance to her parents’ wishes, further demonstrating her change in attitude. Thus, it is evident that throughout the course of the play, Juliet changes significantly.

In the play, Romeo and Juliet, William Shakespeare outlines that idea that in life, desire is crucial to motivation, however, its an individual's commitment and determination to an unrelenting strive towards their goal; a solemn devotion to excel, that will thereby enable one to achieve the success they seek. The idea of determination and its power to excel is represented through the main protagonist of the play, Romeo, as his constant struggle and perseverance in order to remain with Juliet, allows him to achieve what he desired and craved deeply throughout the play: to remain alongside her for eternity.

Juliet is the daughter of Lord and Lady Capulet. When the play begins, we learn from the nurse that Juliet is soon turning fourteen (“Even or odd, of all the days in the year come Lammas-Eve at night shall she be fourteen”). In Juliet's first meeting with her mother and the nurse, she seems to be an obedient and responsible child. She comes immediately when they call her and answers always respectfully to her mother: "Madam, I am here, / What is your will?" (“Act 1, Scene 3). She is also clever as when her mother asks her what she thinks about marriage, she gives an ambiguous answer by saying what her mother wanted to hear really: “it is an honour I dream not of” (“Act 1, Scene 3). We learn that she is