Romeo and Juliet is a tale of love, conflict and sorrow, but how have these things changed the character of young Romeo. At the beginning of this tale Romeo was to say a emotional mess over the fair Rosaline who was the love of his life, but she did not feel the same. Now this left Romeo feeling and looking like a emotional adolescent. During this embarrassing time Romeo had one way to describe the situation at hand, “Why then, O brawling love, O loving hate, O anything of nothing first create!”. However towards the end he had matured turning from an emotional adolescent to a mature adult who can make the tough decisions. And this happened thanks to his love for the beautiful Juliet. An example of this level of matureness is what he says to
Romeo matures as he is more shocked about what has happened between Tybalt who is his cousin. Tybalt died defending Romeo, as the scene continues Romeo is worried about the future and how it will be affected by the event that has happened today. The ways Romeo has remained unchanged as he still offers his love for Juliet even though her cousin has been the one responsible for Tybalt's death. Romeo says its time for him to rage his actions. Romeo is trying to put the pieces together as of what has just happened, the family is already feuding so Tybalt's death will be the beginning as another fight between the two. Romeo wants to kill Benvolio, Romeo tells Benvolio that he will join in heaven with Mercutio. Romeo develops because, all he wants
In the famous play, “Romeo and Juliet” by William Shakespeare, Juliet struggles with her feelings and finds herself in a constant state of internal conflict. Some of her internal conflicts are when Juliet realizes Romeo is a Montague, when her father Capulet is forcing Juliet to marry Paris, when Romeo dies and Juliet decides to stab herself for Romeo only thinking about love. These events will lead to the sad tragedy of “Romeo and Juliet.”
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
As Thrasher has previously stated: “It is too perfect and too passionate for their world” (Page). He is saying how Romeo and Juliet think they are living in their own prefect world where nothing bad can happen to them. Soon reality will strike, and there will be no turning back. Furthermore, since they are teenagers who think they are in love, they do not understand what mistakes they are truly making by continuing with their romantic relationship. Romeo soon takes his love to the extreme when he continues to show his undying love for Juliet. In their reality, he believes “For fear of that, I still will stay with thee, / And never from this palace of dim night/Depart again” (V, iii, 115-117). Here, he is bestowing the ultimate sacrifice for Juliet. He does this to be with his one and only love for the rest of his life. This shows weakness on Romeo’s part because for Juliet, Romeo is willingly paying the ultimate price, which is death. Rite then and there, Romeo commits a behemothic mistake, his suicide. Juliet, on the other hand, shows her weakness in her romance by indubitably wanting to marry Romeo the night she meets him. This is nothing but an immature and somewhat adolescent move because she clearly did not think before she made this irrational decision. Moreover, she seemingly gets so caught up in teenage love, that she does not want the feeling to ever end. She especially experiences this feeling when she yells “O Romeo, Romeo! Wherefore art thou Romeo? \ Deny
Juliet starts thinking for herself and goes against her parents by marrying Romeo, a Montague, showing that since she is mature enough to marry, she is also mature enough to make her own decisions. In 2.6, Friar Laurence is marrying Romeo and Juliet together. Friar Laurence states, “You shall not stay alone/ Till holy church incorporate two in one” (42). Knowing the family rivalry against Capulets and Montagues, Juliet Capulet rebels against her innocence and family by marrying Romeo Montague. Juliet follows through with this decision, going against her parents and thinking for herself once again. She is in love with Romeo and goes against her parents by following through to marry Romeo at the end of 2.6. Not to mention that Juliet is the character
Maturity and responsibility within individuals is revealed with the decisions and choices they make. Some individuals mature at a specific time, while others progressively mature as they age. In Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare, Juliet is presented as a quiet and obedient teenager, however, over time she possesses a high level of inner strength which allows her to gain a maturity level featured in adults. After spending time with Romeo, Juliet goes through a rapid change into taking on her own responsibilities and becoming Romeo’s faithful wife. She starts off quiet and obedient towards her parents to becoming more confident and fearless because of her love towards Romeo, ultimately leading to a full sacrifice of her life to be with Romeo.
Having not quite reached her fourteenth birthday, Juliet is of an age that stands on the border between immaturity and maturity. In the romantic tragedy Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare, love changes Juliet throughout the story by going from a loyal-obeying daughter to her dad then to being a very disrespectful teenage daughter that every parent is scared of because of the influence of her husband. Not only did this trigger her to change but Juliet was also forced to marry Paris whom she did not want to be near. Young Juliet also believes that her dad does not trust her, which she’s not mature and she should just let her husband be in charge. "My child is yet a strange to the world. She hath not seen the
Shakespeare portrays Romeo and Juliet as opposites when it comes to past relationship experience but displays Romeo and Juliet as equally emotionally immature when pitted against emotions as complex as love. Juliet’s tentative stance on love is shown by her initial
People often debate whether youth are capable to handle a mature love, the answer can vary. William Shakespeare’s ‘Romeo and Juliet’ epitomizes this common topic, the main characters are two teenagers who fall in love in first sight, which leads to the death of two. Notwithstanding, in comparison with France Zeffirelli’s ‘Romeo and Juliet’, Romeo and Juliet are portrayed more mature in Baz Luhrmann’s film. This can be evident in 3 ways: the ways of acting, the reaction of Juliet after learning the death of Tybalt, and the setting of scenes.
Romeo and Juliet had a growth in maturity over the course of the story. In the beginning, they both acted as if they had no decisions, and as if they had to live with what everyone else around them felt was best. As the story progressed, so did their characters. When they met, their personalities and reactions to their problems began to evolve.
Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet is a play that has been acted, watched, and read by millions of people for hundreds of years. Throughout this play, Shakespeare develops the character of Juliet from a young naive girl that has a very unfocused and narrow view of what love really is, to a girl that has such an understanding of love that she is willing to give up her life to be with the person she loves. This point of the story shows how much people can change in such a short time, if the right circumstances come about in the right order of events, this is how Juliet changed so quickly.
At the beginning of the play, Juliet’s behaviour and attitude was the way it would have been in Shakespearean time; however, throughout the play the character changes and becomes less obedient towards the father and more endorsed with Romeo. In this essay I am going to explain how Shakespeare’s play shows the changing character of Juliet in three important scenes (Act 1, Scene 3, Act 2, Scene 2, Act 3, Scene 2 and Act 3, Scene 5).
Have you ever made an ill-judged decision or mindlessly acted on a situation? Many people often make mistakes, but it is usually in the youth that errors are found more frequently. This is exposed and proven in the play Romeo and Juliet. Romeo and Juliet follows two star-crossed lovers that are lead to an unfortunate fate. The two meet each other and with an unbelievably short amount of time proclaim their love for one another They are from two families that have been opposing one another for years, so they get married in secret, which only leads to their supposed heartbreak and unfortunate demise. Throughout the play the characteristics of youth are revealed by figurative language. In Romeo and Juliet Shakespeare uses metaphors to convey that adolescence is marked by foolish actions and behaviors.
Before Romeo meets his true love Juliet, he has sunken into a deep depression over Rosaline, the woman he admires from afar. He believes that “such love’s [a] transgression” (I.1.182) which causes him to shield himself away from the world. Throughout the duration of the play, Romeo changes from a moody and depressed character, to a man in love. Seeing the development of Romeo’s emotions due to changes in his life, he can be described as a dynamic character. When he finally meets Juliet, his personality alters and he goes through an important inner change.
The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet, by William Shakespeare, delivers an unfortunate tale of “a pair of star-crossed lovers”(1.1.6). Two families’, Capulets and Montagues, hatred towards one another leads to doom for the couple. Lord and Lady Capulet’s daughter, Juliet, and Lord and Lady Montague’s son, Romeo, fall in love and get married; however, this being a forbidden love, chaos ensues. Being the youngest of the Capulet family, she is the “perfect” child until she meets Romeo and her angel-like ways towards her parents start to slip away. Juliet changes rapidly throughout the story, growing up from an innocent and obedient girl in the first act to becoming a heartbroken woman at the end. Changes that Juliet undergoes can be seen in the beginning