Juliet's Change Throughout William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet
In every love story there has to be a heroine, two people falling in
love, obstacles and a happy or tragic ending. Romeo and Juliet is a
play which has all these ingredients. This story has similarities to
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte. Both are love stories, but Romeo &
Juliet fall in love at first sight, whereas Jane Eyre and Mr Rochester
grow to love each other as time passes. There are obstacles that block
the lovers from having an easy, simple relationship such as Romeo and
Juliet being separated by their families who despise each other, and
in Jane Eyre when Mr. Rochester's secret mad wife stops him from
expressing his love. Then at the end both stories have a happy but
tragic ending.
In Romeo and Juliet it is very sad but also happy as even though they
both died because of the hate between the two families, their death
brought the two families together. In Jane Eyre though the house burns
down with Mr. Rochester's mad wife in it and he loses his sight, it
does leave Jane Eyre and Mr. Rochester free to have a relationship.
Like most love stories, the characters end up changing. Juliet changes
a lot though the play, at the start she is a very obedient and 'a
stranger to the world', but as time passes Juliet's language and
actions change and she becomes more mature. She is pushed away from
her family and is forced to lie to them to conceal her love.
When Juliet is first mentioned it is when her father is talking to
Paris about marriage prospects. Capulet is going on about how she is
so young and does not have experience, "She hath not seen the change
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As you read through the play, Juliet changes a lot. At the start she
acts all innocent and wants to please her parents, but as the play
progresses you see that she starts to mature. When she disobeys her
fathers wishes you would think that she was a completely different
person. She goes through a lot, at the end she can't handle anymore.
At the beginning she is in control, but towards the end, when she is
growing apart from her family, she starts losing control and gets
hysterical at times.
I think the characters are still relevant today as in many different
cultures there are still arranged marriages, and children are being
pressured into things they don't want to do. I think Juliet's love for
Romeo was strong throughout the play, so much that she would die for
him, which I think is true love.
1968 was a time when many people were 'hippies' and there was a lot of
to look after your child. It was a show of wealth, so that if you have
this scene and the end of Act 1 Scene 4. The last scene ended on a
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At the start of the play she was described as a girl who is very
Juliet as a Disobedient Wretch in William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. The quote that Lord Capulet said to Juliet, calling her a "disobedient" wretch" in Act III Scene 5. He enters the play delighted because he has good news that Juliet is going to marry Paris. Juliet refuses this and as soon as Juliet tells Lord Capulet this, he is furious.
In an attempt to push away from medieval love conventions and her father's authority, Shakespeare's Juliet asserts sovereignty over her sexuality. She removes it from her father's domain and uses it to capture Romeo's love. Critic Mary Bly argues that sexual puns color Juliet's language. These innuendoes were common in Renaissance literature and would have been recognized by an Elizabethan audience. Arguably, Juliet uses sexual terms when speaking to Romeo in order to make him aware of her sexuality. When he comes to her balcony, she asks him, "What satisfaction canst thou have tonight?" (2.1.167). Bly asserts that "satisfaction in her hands, becomes a demure play on the sating of desire" (108). Following this pun, Juliet proposes marriage. She teases Romeo with sexual thoughts and then stipulates that marriage must precede the consummation of their love. Juliet uses "death" in a similar sense. She asks night to "Give me my Romeo, and when I shall die / Take him and cut him out in little stars" (3.2.21-22). Death holds a double meaning in these lines. It connotes both "ceasing to be and erotic ecstasy" (Bly 98). Based upon this double meaning, one can infer that "she sweetly asks 'civil night' to teach her how to lose the game of love she is about to play for her virginity" (Wells 921). She tells her nurse, "I'll to my wedding bed, / And death, not Romeo, take my maidenhead!" (3.2.136-137). Placing death opposite Romeo highlights the irony of the situation; both death and Romeo should claim her maidenhead together. These sexual puns reveal Juliet's awareness of her sexuality. She entices Romeo, forcing her sexuality to act as emotional currency.
In 1996 an australian film director Baz Luhrman introduces the new adaptation of the ageless love story – “Romeo and Juliet” by William Shakespeare. The action is moved to America and happening in the end of 20th century. In an imaginary city Verona Beach the two powerful clans Montague (Anglo-Saxon) and Capulet (Latinos) brutally rival. The swords are substituted with the guns, the ancient costumes with jeans and shirts. The art director Catherine Martin didn’t have any lack of materials, since the 20th century brought a great variety of heels, lighters, shirts, bikers, rockers, leather, tattoos, piercing, etc. The creators originally approached the small details: the street posters
From “the fatal loins” (Prologue.5) of Lord and Lady Capulet, protagonist Juliet is born in Shakespeare’s play Romeo and Juliet. Early on in the play Juliet is portrayed as a very dutiful daughter to her family. After her encounter with Romeo however, she begins a rapid transformation from a naive young girl into a woman. By the end of the play Juliet’s transformation evolves her from a dutiful daughter, into a faithful wife that is willing to desert her family in the name of love.