The Transformation Of Juliet In William Shakespeare's Romeo And Juliet

Document D shows, “They are two-star crossed lovers who live apart from each other because of the war between the Montague and the Capulet family that results in death in order to be resolved.” This relates to when Juliet was upset with Father Capulet because he has made arrangements for her to marry Paris. Lord Capulet is unaware of Juliet liking an enemy from a different family. In addition, he also does not know that his daughter is in love with a banished lover who happened to kill Juliet's cousin. This action causes Juliet to fake her death with a sleeping drug. Due to being far away from his wife, Romeo hears about this news and commits suicide by drinking poison. A couple of moments later Juliet wakes up to find Romeo dead. Afterwards, she commits suicide by stabbing herself with a sword. When these deaths are seen, it causes the Montagues and the Capulets to come together. Romeo and Juliet's death could have been avoided if the fathers had stopped the feud between the two

Through Juliet’s words and actions she continues to be far too impulsive throughout the tragedy. After her first kiss with Romeo during the masquerade, she convinces herself that she is instantaneously in love. When Romeo leaves, Juliet tells herself, “If he be married/ My grave is like to be my wedding bed” (1.5.148-149). When Juliet meets Romeo they exchange very few words, yet they end up kissing and

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.

Juliet changes a vast amount during the play. In this essay I am going to explore the following points:

Though Juliet is probably one of the worst fictional characters to look up to, she does have important and respectable traits. In Shakespeare’s famous novel and play, Romeo and Juliet, many of the characters undergo major development. The novel starts off as a comedy, with Romeo and Juliet getting married, but ends as a tragedy, with both main characters dying. The tragedy of the story often makes the characters show their true selves and ultimately face constant development. Though Juliet is often interpreted as a weak and ingenuous character, many of her actions prove her to be mature, determined, and independent.

At first, quick-witted Juliet manages to fool her parents with subtle punning. She deceives them into thinking that she is complying with their wishes when, in actual fact, Juliet is defying them in an unobvious manner. Such an example is when Lady Capulet enters Juliet’s chamber, questioning the reason for her sorrow and tears. Juliet answers, “Indeed I shall be satisfied/ With Romeo till I behold him – dead -/ Is my poor heart so for a kinsman vexed.” (III.v.97-99) This disobedience and disloyalty towards her parents escalates when her father gives her instructions to wed Paris. At this point, Juliet cannot stand her outrage and displays outright disobedience, instantly retorting “He shall not make me there a joyful bride!” (III.v.21) She then seeks help from Friar Lawrence, begging him to help her avoid marrying Paris. “And I will do it without fear or doubt,/ To live an unstained wife to my sweet love.” (IV.i.89-90) As the story plays out, Juliet learns to be bolder and more defiant towards her parents, showing that she is a strong individual with her own views and mindsets. She even resorts to the most desperate of measures in order to go against her parents’

However, Juliet starts to show strength and intelligence that can be interpreted as a sort of passive resistance that at the end of the play ends her life. In Act II, scene iv, Juliet goes against the wishes of her father and marries Romeo. The morning after their wedding night Juliet learns that her father has moved the day of her wedding with Paris to Thursday in an attempt to make Juliet happy and to try and get her to stop mourning her cousin Tybault’s death. (Romeo killed Tybault the night of their wedding in his friend Mercutio’s honor.) Juliet is appalled and rejects this by saying, “I will not marry yet; and when I do, I swear /

As the play evolves, Juliet goes from young and naïve to strong and decisive. She changes from passive to standing up for her rights in a matter of pages. Juliet is very strong in the fact that she doesn’t want to marry Paris, against her father’s wishes. She makes it very clear that she will never be happy in a relationship with Paris; “I can never be proud of what I hate,” (Act 3, Scene 5). Whilst Juliet fights tooth and nail to avoid the marriage, she comes to the realisation that with the promise of being disowned by her father, Capulet, it will take something drastic to change this situation. Juliet goes to Friar Laurence, with the promise that if he can’t help her, she will spill her own blood; “I’ll solve my problem with this knife… I will die before I marry another man,” (Act 4, Scene 1). Juliet buys into the subservience of women to the superior man by going behind her father’s back instead of confronting him head on and facing the consequences. Growing up comes about through understanding one-self which necessarily involves rebellion against those closest to them. As evidence by Juliet’s actions, she is making this leap.

In the beginning of the play The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet when Juliet is first introduced, she is introduced as a young girl who is very faithful to her family, the Capulet family. In being faithful to her family, she is very compliant to the elders in her family. When the Capulet family's nurse calls Juliet, Juliet comes promptly. Then, she politely asks why she was called.

Even before we delve into the metaphorical and poetic world of William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, the fate of our titled characters has already been told as we find out about ‘A pair of star-cross'd lovers’ who ‘take their life’. However the story, as we begin to read, is far from explained and unfolded, in fact, Romeo and Juliet have not even met.

“A pair of star-cross'd lovers take their life; whose misadventured piteous overthrows do with their death bury their parents' strife.” (prologue)The Lord Capulet is to blame for the deaths of Romeo and Juliet. There was a longstanding family feud between the Capulets and Montagues, Lord Capulet holding power over everything Juliet did in her life, and their whole family was uptight, uncaring, and unreliable altogether. All these things led to the tragic death of these so called “lovers”.

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.

Juliet in Act 3 is defiant to what her parents say because they will not allow her to marry Romeo because he is a Montague. Juliet’s parents want her to marry Paris, but she does not want to marry Paris and is reluctant to marry him. Juliet asks Friar Laurence for the potion to fake her death so she does not have to marry Paris. In Act 4, Scene 1, Juliet shows that she does not like Paris outwardly. Juliet admits to Friar Laurence that she does not want to

At the beginning of the play Romeo is beyond upset when he finds that his love for Rosaline is not mutual. Romeo even moves into a depressed, mopey state, in which he locks himself in his room and cries constantly. (Act I, scene 1) Romeo moves on quickly and falls in love with Juliet based off of her astounding beauty at the Capulet party. (Act I, scene 5) The love between the two was shared and after only one night in the Capulet orchard they had fallen in love and agreed to marry the following morning. (Act II) Before Romeo, Juliet was a very independent woman and objected to marriage. Lady and Lord Capulet knew Paris was a good person and Juliet didn’t even consider giving him a chance at the party. (Act I, scene 3) Juliet also didn’t know anything about Paris. If she would have given him a chance and actually gotten to know him, she could have fallen in love with him rather than basing love off looks with Romeo. Romeo wasn’t a bad person, but he did lead Juliet to do and say things she wouldn’t normally say, like threatening to kill herself through desperation throughout the play and disobeying her parents. Parents who take the time to

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