Juliet's Change Throughout William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet

How Shakespeare Shows Juliet's Changing Emotions Through Language and Drama Introduction Romeo and Juliet, a story of two lovers, was written by William Shakespeare between the years of 1594 and 1596. The basic plot of the play was discovered as early as 3 A.D. and Italian novelists of the 15th century gave it specific features and detail. The names of Capulet and Montague are indeed the historical names of two significant households in ancient Italy but the character names and attitudes are all fictional. The Italians stress that the story is indeed a factual tale and that places such as the Capulet tomb and the Balcony of Giulietta are the places where the tragic tale took place.

In life, people are changing constantly. Sometimes it is for good and sometimes it is for bad. The same goes for Romeo in the play entitled Romeo and Juliet written by William Shakespeare. Romeo makes many changes throughout the play, but none bigger than his love. He starts off loving Rosaline, but soon finds more love with Juliet. Because of his change in lovers, his emotions become entirely different from the beginning of the play. He starts off as depressed and melancholy, and then suddenly finds joy and happiness in life. Romeo gains maturity as the play continues. Romeo and Juliet is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare. The plot is focused on a feud involving two royal families set in the late 1500’s. Romeo and Juliet are from the two different families and are stuck in the crossfire. Because of this feud, Romeo must adapt and make many changes throughout the play. Romeo makes many changes throughout the play that have good and bad consequences.

spend on her and all the love he would give her and then telling her

Come, what says Romeo?”(2.5). Juliet is completely obsessed with her love, so obsessed that her love overpowers her, in a dangerous and controlling way. This of course does happen near the end of the play she takes a dangerous potion tricking her family into thinking that she is dead. This ables Juliet into hopefully running away to her love who has been banished from Verona. Though scarred she drinks the potion in hope of living happily ever after with Romeo: “Come, vial. What if this mixture do not work at all?... What if it be a poison which the friar / Subtilly hath minist’red to have me dead… I fear it is… There’s a fearful point! Shall I not then be stifled in the vault… and there die strangled”(4.2) yet she still drinks the potion for love: “Romeo, I come! This do I drink to thee.”(4.2). Her love consumes her especially after Romeo’s death: “ Yea, noise? Then I’ll be brief. O happy dagger! (Snatches Romeo’s dagger.) This is thy sheath; there rest, and let me die (she stabs herself and falls on Romeo’s body.)”(5.3). Just like that she ends her life because of her obsession over Romeo and their love. This is a huge change of her character, she goes from being just a child who “hath not seen the change of fourteen years”(1.2) to a woman who ends her life for love. This shows how much Juliet’s perspective on love and life has changed through foreshadowing.

The showing of ‘Romeo and Juliet’ that I attended on the 25th of October at the Shakespeare Theatre was both an entertaining and refreshing take on the classic Elizabethan play. The Characters lived in a modern era with the same story as the bard intended, they used guns and switchblades instead of the traditional swords, the feast of Capulet took place during a house party and the marketplace fight was more of a cafe. The story of Romeo And Juliet could apply to any time period, two children falling in love but kept apart by parents. In this rendition, Juliet, Lord Capulet and the Nurse were all of African American descent, which although did not add any effect to the play, did not take away from the story any either. Traditionally the story

Romeo and Juliet During the tale of Romeo and Juliet the characters face what love is during the fifteenth century. Love in the fifteenth century has changed juristically over time to what it is today from the reasoning of love, the age and rights to relationships, and finally love at first sight. First the reasoning behind love was much different then it is today. In the fifteen hundreds wealth and money drove the family to keep the future going, so men with money and power were the preferred choice to marry.

The two characters of William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, change at very different degrees and ways, but their story gives an important message to teenagers of even today. In Romeo and Juliet, Romeo changes minorly in his journey of love as he remains dramatic and romantic he, however, becomes much more of a rule breaker and happier, while Romeo remains the same Juliet changes drastically from a rule following young girl to a quick decision, rule breaking, in love teenager. In the beginning of Shakespeare’s play, Romeo speaks in long dramatic sonnets about love, but he seems very depressed. The reader soon discovers that the young Montague’s depression comes from the inability to be with his supposed love, Rosaline; however, Romeo soon meets Juliet and

In life, change is inevitable. We as a human species have been, and still continue to change through our entire lives. Change is a natural thing to go through in order for development to occur. Whether that development is positive or negative depends on what, and how much something is changing. People change people, especially in circumstances in which relationships could drastically be affected- for better or for worse. Although change in most lights is seen as good, there are many consequences and prices people have to pay as a result of either personal change, or the change of people around them. In the play, Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare, we meet a pair of star-crossed lovers who loves one another despite the ancient grudge

I feel that Romeo does not change very much in this play. He has many

How does Romeo and Juliet change throughout the course of the play? In our society Juliet would be far too young to marry because she's only 14 years old. “ Come Lammas Eve at night shall she be fourteen” (Shakespeare 1.3.17). Juliet will be 14 on the 1st of August. She is so young, yet so soon to marry.

“Romeo and Juliet” by William Shakespeare In the play, “Romeo and Juliet” by William Shakespeare, you see Juliet Capulet's character develop throughout the play and how different events change her personality. The events in her life that changed her include her meeting Romeo, her cousin Tybalt's death and her father betraying her and making her choose between her family and her happiness. Juliet changed a lot during the play but firstly I will describe to you what she was like before any changes had occurred. She was immature, naïve and hadn't experienced the world because her father and his wealth sheltered her form it.

Romeo and juliet is a play written in 1594 about two star crossed lovers and their journey through a Throughout the play Romeo matures from his love of juliet. Not does he change from petrarch's ideas of love to modern thoughts of love. He is also changed from a comic relief character to a tragic character. I believe romeo’s change starts with how he talks throughout the play, Romeo also shows change with how he acts and responds to tragedy.

Juliet’s attitude changes from when she wants nothing to do with marriage or even a relationship in act 1.3, to falling in love with Romeo in act 2.2, and then when she kills herself to be with Romeo in Act 5.3. In act 1.3 Juliet is asked how she feels about marriage and if she can “accept Paris’s love” in marriage, but she doesn’t want to get married, nor does she want to become a mother at 14 years old. In act 2.2 After Juliet meets Romeo at masquerade ball, they fall deeply in love with each other and her thoughts on marriage change, because it is the only way they could be together without Juliet having to marry Paris. In act 5.3 Romeo found Juliet unconscious in the tomb and when he believes she is dead, he kills himself so they can be

At the beginning of Romeo and Juliet, before certain scenes, Juliet seems to be a normal girl of her age. As the play carries on there is a certain scene in which Juliet’s behavior does not really reflect her age, this scene is the second scene of act three. In this scene, Juliet behavior tells us that she is really obsessed with Romeo as he is with her. After just getting married to Juliet, Romeo kills Tybalt after he kills Mercutio.

say I" (p.27) and "It is an honour I dream not of" (p.27). Juliet is