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Relationship Between Romeo And Juliet

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Juliet Capulet “from Romeo and Juliet” has a love at first sight experience with Romeo Montague and interacts with him finding out he loves her as well, Juliet does not know that Romeo is a part of the Montague family, enemy of the Capulets. Juliet not knowing this piece of information, makes a commitment based on appearance while not knowing who Romeo truly is and that causes many problems and the whole relationship ends in a disappointment. Juliet makes a commitment to marry, thwarting parental plans, only to learn of Romeo’s true nature. Once Romeo kills Tybalt, a cousin of the Capulet family, Juliet reveals that she is not committed to the marriage as she betrays her husband, seeing him as a serpent “hid in a flowering face” (Romeo and Juliet, Act 3, scene 2, line 74). The death of Tybalt forces the Capulet family to …show more content…

Romeo now banished for killing Tybalt, and Juliet being forced to marry Paris causes her to take action and ask help from the friar. Juliet seeking help from the friar shows how desperate her situation has become, yet she has no announce that Romeo is her husband. Even though Juliet is very desperate, she continues to keep her marriage a secret which forces her to make compromises to be with Romeo. Juliet fakes her death to get out of her marriage with Paris and be with Romeo without her parents knowing. She does not depend on Romeo’s inability to wait out his banishment and so fakes her death to be with Romeo. Romeo hears that Juliet is dead and goes to see her, Juliet does not realize that Romeo cannot read signs that her death is fake and so Romeo says “Beauty’s ensign yet Is crimson in thy lips and in thy cheeks, and death’s pale flag is not advancèd there” (Romeo and Juliet, Act 5, scene 3 line 103-105). Romeo does not realize that Juliet is still alive and kills himself because he does not want to live without

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