Juliet
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- Juliet
- Personality
- Juliet is beautiful and intelligent
- The other characters use images of light to describe her
- This shows she is beautiful, bright and full of energy
- In her conersations with Romeo she criticises the poetic way he talks
- The other characters use images of light to describe her
- She changes after meeting Romeo
- At the start of the play she is young and innocent - She hasn't thought about marriage and agrees to look at Paris like her parents have asked her to
- After meeting Romeo she quickly becomes more independant and starts thinking about what she wants
- She's impulsive and passionate
- She lets Romeo kiss her at the ball even though she doesn't know him
- She's very keen to get married
- She knows that she is expected to hide her true feelings for Romeo
- She has a lot to cope with
- Her character seems inexperienced
- At only 13, she has dealt with an arranged marriage, a secret love, the death of her cousin and the fake suicide and death of her husband
- Juliet's decisions to get married in secret and fake her own death are immature and suggest she is getting carried away with love
- Juliet is beautiful and intelligent
- Quotes
- "O, happy dagger!" Act 5 Scene 3
- Juliet wants to dies so she can be with Romeo in heaven
- Adjective "Happy" illustrates how she welcomes death to be with Romeo
- "And I'll no longer be a Capulet" Act 2 Scene 2
- This highlights Juliet's impulsive decisions to rush into things with Romeo
- She's impulsive and passionate
- She lets Romeo kiss her at the ball even though she doesn't know him
- She's very keen to get married
- She knows that she is expected to hide her true feelings for Romeo
- She's impulsive and passionate
- Mentioning her name could also mean that she is still thinking of family
- This highlights Juliet's impulsive decisions to rush into things with Romeo
- "O, happy dagger!" Act 5 Scene 3
- Themes
- Love - Juliet's initial meeting with Romeo is passionate, flirtatious and true
- Some people think that the play portrays a love so strong that nothing else matters - Others think it's immature madness
- Conflict - Juliet shows inner conflict when she finds out Romeo is in fact a Montague
- She is shocked and can't believe she loves someone she is supposed to hate - she knows that she can't change her feelings for him and is thus left with a conflict
- Love - Juliet's initial meeting with Romeo is passionate, flirtatious and true
- Context
- By marrying secretly Juliet is rebelling against Society's Expectations - this is not how the audience would expect her to behave
- This is why she does not tell her parents
- After meeting Romeo she quickly becomes more independant and starts thinking about what she wants
- By marrying secretly Juliet is rebelling against Society's Expectations - this is not how the audience would expect her to behave
- Personality
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