Juliet's Growth Throughout William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet

Juliet's Growth Throughout William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet

Romeo and Juliet is a play that was written by Shakespeare in 1595.

William was born in 1564 and died in 1616 he was the third child of

John and Mary Shakespeare. The first two were daughters and William

was himself followed by Gilbert who died in 1612 and Richard who died

in 1613. Other plays written by William are Hamlet, Macbeth and King

Lear.

The prologue is used to summarise the events of the play. The first

quote 'Two households both alike in dignity' tells us that both the

Montagues and Capulets are both equal in wealth, social standing and

status. We then find out that the play is set in Italy, Verona. The

next quote 'ancient grudge' tells us that there is an old feud between

both families and 'new mutiny' tells us that the conflict still

exists. Then 'civil blood makes civil hands unclean' tells us that the

hands are unclean because of the blood, and civil meaning both

families born in the same country fighting each other. An important

quote is 'fatal lions of these two foes' fatal being an important word

as is suggests that the death of Romeo and Juliet had been

pre-determined. Then 'star crossed lovers' which means that it was

destiny, already written that death was Romeo and Juliet's fate.

Another important quote is ' Doth with their death bury their parents

strife', this is important because it tells us that Romeo and Juliet's

death has broken that ancient grudge that was between the Montagues

and Capulets. And the quote ' death marked love', which again tells us

it was their destiny to die.

In the play Romeo and Juliet we see how Juliet matures t...

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... marvellous much. Juliet then says 'O mast wicked

fiend' she now sees the nurse as a wicked woman there is a dramatic

change in their relationship. Juliet then says 'thou and my bosom

henceforth shall be twain' here she is saying the relationship between

her and the nurse is broken.

Throughout Romeo and Juliet we see a dramatic change is Juliets

behaviour and the way she is. At first she is the obedient daughter of

Capulet and Lady Capulet she listens to what they say and does what

she is told. She then turns in to an independent and mature woman who

thinks for herself and does what she wants to do, this is because she

finds Romeo and falls in love. She also turns into the wife of Romeo

and then experiences divided loyalty between her parents and husband

but is mature and rational about this and supports her husband.