Throughout William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet there is a constant evolution of Juliet’s character, especially her maturity. Juliet comes across as a rash and impulsive person due to the choices that she makes leading up to her marriage, however once her actions are analyzed she turns out to be a mature and intelligent girl. Throughout the story she gains a tremendous amount of experience in making great decisions that will benefit her in the long run, allowing her relationships to progress exactly as she would like while still maintaining a great deal of loyalty towards Romeo. As the story progresses, Juliet proactively makes decisions that are beneficial to her future. When the reader first meets Juliet we see her strong opinion first hand when she boldly tells her mother, …show more content…
This does a good job of conveying to the reader that Juliet does not like Paris, and realises that her parents only want her to marry him for the money and his looks. At this point Juliet has not met Romeo, so there can not be any influence from him. Juliet realizes that her parents would like her to get married soon, and so she does not have much time to find a better alternative to Paris. Although she is alarmed by the question posed by her mother, she is not panicking yet since the idea of being married to Paris is only a suggestion. As the story progresses to the second act, and Juliet has met her Romeo, we continue to see very solid and intelligent decisions being made. This continues to show through when Juliet tells Romeo that, “I have no joy of this contract tonight. It is too rash, too unadvised, too sudden, Too like the lightning, which doth cease to be Ere one can say ‘It lightens.’” (II.2.117) After saying this Juliet seems to have not caved into Romeo’s love at all. However, a few lines later Juliet is called away by her nurse, and when she reappears, all of her thoughts become rushed. She tells Romeo, “If that thy bent of love be
" But she never did anything about this. She went along with the marriage that resulted in a death of the patient. Also Juliet was already engaged to Paris at the time, and she was happy with that and happy with her parents, she shouldn't have disobeyed them, then their love for each other would. never have happened before.
...ught about getting married to someone. When her mother asked her of marriage, it was something she had not dreamed of. Because of the use of Shakespearean language, Shakespeare is able to show his readers the change Juliet goes through throughout the play by the language and the tone he uses. Juliets love for Romeo changes her. Before she would always tell everything to her mother and do what she was asked to do. But then she decided to marry Romeo without consulting anyone in her family. She did things that she would have never done if she hadn't met Romeo. Juliet is a dynamic character because of the changes she goes through. Shakespeare is able to show the audience that a character no matter how they are in the beginning of the story, their decision and the events that influence their lives can change them making them a dynamic character.
First and foremost, following Juliet's refusal of the marriage with Paris, her father tells her that she is “one too much and that “ {he has} a curse in having her”(III. V. 166-167). Juliet considers her father's reaction as a form of abandonment. This strengthens her isolation from her parents. Juliet is also affected by the nurse's advice to marry Paris and thinks “it is more sin to wish {her} thus forsworn” (III. V. 237). Juliet is hurt by the unsettling advice the nurse gives her at difficult circumstances. This causes Juliet to isolate herself from the nurse and does not confide in her anymore. Besides the nurse, Friar Laurence also betrays Juliet at a critical moment by saying that “stay is not to question, for the watch is coming…{and he} dare{s} no longer stay”(V. III. 158-159) and leaves her. This abandonment influences Juliet's isolation from the friar. Since the Friar is one of her most trusted advisors, this heavily impacts Juliet. The betrayal of her trusted friends results in Juliet’s isolation from them.
She does not fall for Romeo’s outlandish declarations about love despite recuperating his feelings because she is practical about love. Juliet does not want her romance to be a joke; she does not want Romeo to “swear at all;/ Or, if thou wilt, swear by thy gracious self,/ Which is the god of my idolatry,/ And I’ll believe thee” (II, ii, 112-116), Juliet wants honest conversation, void of senseless vows. Juliet does not want to waste her time with a romance that will not become marriage, hence why “If that thy bent of love be honourable,/ Thy purpose marriage, send me word tomorrow” (II, ii, 143-145). She wants Romeo to follow through with his word.
Juliet’s weakness to be controlled by love leads her to make unadvised and irresponsible decisions that contribute to her choice of ending her life. Characterized as a young and rash teenager, with no interest in love and marriage at first, Juliet wants to be independent. However, after she first lays eyes on Romeo, Juliet’s perception of love is quick to change. Their strong love easily manipulates and clouds her judgment. Even if she is cautious and realizes their love is too fast, the rush of feelings from having a first love overcomes her. Her soft-spoken words symbolically foreshadow the journey of Romeo and Juliet’s love. “Well, do not swear. Although I joy in thee, / I have no joy of this contract tonight. / It is too rash, too unadvised, too sudden;…/ This bud of love, by summer’s ripening breath, / May prove to be a beauteous flower when next we meet” (2.2. 117-123). The blooming flower is indicative of their growing love, especially Juliet. Being her first experience of true love, her actions become more rash the deeper she falls in, even ...
This is a prime example of love being a force that controls people. Juliet is so in love with Romeo, and vice versa, that they are willing to rush right into a marriage. Many people prefer to get to know their significant other before getting married. Romeo and Juliet prefer to throw caution to the wind and get married immediately. The reader knows that if this marriage does not happen immediately, then Paris may get Juliet's hand by force. Romeo and Juliet do not know this. If they had known this, then the theme of love being a powerful force would not be as big of a part of the passage as it
Unlike Romeo’s adolescents Juliet once again breaks free from that stereotype right before she is going to drink the potion that makes her look dead. She is worried about if she “wake[s] before the time that Romeo comes to redeem [her]” (4.3,35-end). By this she means that she fears that Romeo will not be there by the time she wakes up and she will be stuck in the tomb with all the dead bodies which will inturn make her go crazy. Juliet though she is not as bad as Romeo still makes some adolescent choices that really affect he life like marrying Romeo and also killing herself.
4. Juliet’s attitude changes because she knows that Romeo heard her expressing her love for him and she gets worried that things are moving too fast for her.
Shakespeare utilizes an alliteration, a soliloquy, and development of a recurrent theme to develop Juliet’s mature and obedient personality. Additionally, her personality is developed through the plot: from the two star crossed lover meeting to their tragic deaths. Through the development of the tragedy and Juliet’s personality Shakespeare attempts to educate the audience on how to best live life in moderation and with wisdom. Juliet is a perfect example of this because she so desperately wants to jump into her passionate romance with Romeo, but chooses instead to be mature and more wise about her decision. In every event, Juliet displays how to be an obedient and mature person and this is useful in the real world
Throughout the entire play Romeo and Juliet act like impulsive children, though there are moments where they show a bit of maturity. For their ages, wouldn’t they have more maturity and less childish? Juliet is 13 and Romeo is 16. At least Romeo should have SOME maturity level. Juliet is still maturing and she just became a teen. A 5-year-old could be more mature then they are.
Have you ever noticed how people change after they fall in love? In the story Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare, Juliet is proven to be a dynamic character because of how she changes throughout the story and why. In the story, Juliet changes from understanding and reasonable to disobedient and unreasonable because she is in love.
Juliet kindly turns down the offer to marry Paris, but her father will not have it. He is not giving her a choice. She is forced to do as her father instructs, even if it will cause her to suffer in an unhappy relationship, because if she defies him, she will receive more than verbal insults. Juliet knows her destiny has been set by her parents and she has no power to change it. She has to live in the relationship of their choice, even if it will mean suffering in an unhappy relationship. Evidently, Juliet, from Romeo and Juliet, suffers greatly because of the little power she has over her life and destiny, she is not used to making her own choices when she can, and with no control over her destiny she is whisked off to marry someone
Although the lovers are both fairly impudent throughout the play, Romeo, the male lead, is even more so. Through out the play of Romeo and Juliet, the Montague heir has ceased maturity over the course of the Shakespearean tragedy. First of all, it was “Rosaline” (II.iii.67). whom Romeo “didst love so dear” (II.iii.67). at the beginning of the play as he “groaned . . . woes for Rosaline” (II.ii.74-78) however, he easily fell out of lover with her and in love with the “fair daughter of the rich Capulet” (II.iii.58) like he was changing his mind on a meal he’d order. Also, he fell out of love with Rosaline because she did not “doth grace for grace and love for love allow.” (II.iii. 85-88) which basically meant that Romeo didn’t love Rosaline because she didn’t love him back, which is very childish in hindsight. Another way that Romeo is immature is that he doesn’t have a sense of reality fore, he’s always either extremely depressed, like when Rosaline wanted to remain chaised for life or extremely elated like when he met Juliet, while having no real middle ground for his emotions. These are all reasons why Romeo is immature: he’s always heads over heels in love for trivial reasons and he has no to little sense of reality.
In the beginning of the play, Juliet is unable to make her own decisions. However, after her meeting with Romeo, Juliet becomes more assertive and defends her love for Romeo. In conclusion, individuals cannot be forced to love; love is nurtured and nourished but is also always put to
... and is ready to swear the vows of marriage with Romeo. Juliet’s reckless and hasty decisions demonstrate her impulsiveness. Juliet’s love for Romeo largely dictates her brash decisions and speech. If Romeo did not enter Juliet’s life, she would never have known the hurt and heartbreak she experiences throughout the tragedy.