The Development of Juliet's Character in William Shakespeare's 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.

The nurse, throughout the story, acts like a best friend to juliet, and sometimes a motherly figure in replacement of Lady Capulet. While one of her main purposes is comic relief, Juliet looks up to her and she becomes one of the only people to know of Juliet’s relationship with Romeo. The nurse seems supportive, but her opinions of Romeo seem to change after the news comes of Tybalt’s death, when she says “Romeo can, While Heaven cannot. O’Romeo, Romeo! Who would have thought it? Romeo!” The nurse indirectly states her new distaste for Romeo, making Juliet mad. Juliet feels betrayed by this sudden outburst. Later, when the Capulets try to force Juliet into a marriage with Paris, The nurse reveals that she believes “I think you are happy in this second match, for it excels your first; or if it did not, Your first is dead- or ‘twere as good he were As living here and you no use of him.”(656). This is the second time that Juliet has been betrayed by the nurse, someone who she used to confide in and

The scene we are presenting and talking about is act 4 scene 1. This scene is about Paris telling the Friar about how he and Juliet are about to be married. But this is only to the extent that he understands; he doesn't know that she is already married to another man. But Juliet actually goes to Friar to pick up a potion to kill herself. Paris after that talks to Juliet about her having to love him or else their marriage won't work out leaving tension between them.

Juliet is introduced into the play in act one scene three, as an innocent, obedient, and respectful adolescent. Her polite response to her

In Lines 123- 133, it states, “very well she sang the service divine,Intoning through her nose, becomingly; And she spoke French fairly and fluently, After the school of Stratford-at-the-Bow, For French of Paris style she didn't know. At table, her manners were well taught withall, And never let morsels

Towards the end of this scene Juliet meets Romeo for the first time. When Romeo tells Juliet he loves her, she expresses her love towards him by

The Nurse told this to Juliet and her mother Lady Capulet, “A man young; lady such a pregent”. The Nurse also say this to Juliet, “Notness ? Nay, bigger! Women grew by men. So Juliet leave and Lady Capulet and The Nurse are talking and Lady Capulet is still worried that Juliet is too young to get married ,but The Nurse said it okay they be fine. That the end of Act 1 and Scene 3.

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.

Romeo had just loved another girl, Rosaline, only moments before seeing Juliet and deciding that he had loved her instantly. According to the article, “Love at first sight is a phenomenon that 15% of people have reported experiencing it. They described it as a once in a lifetime situation.” It seems impossible that Romeo had experienced this with two girls within a few days. As for Juliet, she is only 13 years old. Many studies have found that children can not love somebody romantically until they have hit puberty. She shows her immaturity towards the beginning of the book, when the nurse is speaking to her and she gets extremely embarrassed. While she does mature throughout the play, her maturity level at when she first met Romeo was no where near where it would have to be to fall inlove.

So we’ve reached Act III of Romeo and Juliet, and this is when things start going wrong for our “star-crossed lovers”. Fortunes begin to decline for our characters, first with Mercutio and Tybalt’s slaughter, then Romeo’s banishment, and finally Capulets resolve to marry Juliet to Paris. It’s just human nature that we feel bad for the couple, and we abandon blame on them, instead blaming the events on fate.

from a girl who has just said to her mother, I will do nothing until

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

seen as. Later in the same act, she exclaims to Dr. Rank and Christine she has

Scene 5 she has to break the news to Juliet that she is going to be

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