Romeo and Juliet - The Character of Juliet In William Shakespeare's the tragedy of Romeo and Juliet, love transforms Juliet. Early in the play, Juliet is a young girl who is very faithful to her family. After this young girl meets Romeo Montague, she begins to change. By the end of the play, Juliet is changed into a woman who is now very faithful to her husband, instead of her family. 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. Juliet also calls her mother, Lady Capulet, "madam" (1.3.5). Juliet is also compliant to her family when she is at the feast that her family throws. Not long after Juliet meets Romeo, her mother calls her. When she hears this, she immediately ends her conversation with Romeo to go and see why her mother called her. In addition to being very compliant to her family, she is also very compliant when she is asked to do anything. When Juliet's mother, Lady Capulet, asks her daughter Juliet about her opinions on marriage, Juliet is very respectful with her answer. She says, "It is and honor that I dream not of." (1.3.66). Juliet is very compliant when her mother, Lady Capulet, is discussing Paris's proposal with Juliet. Lady Capulet is pleased with the proposal by Paris and wants Juliet to consider it. Even though Juliet is not interested in marrying Paris, or anyone else, she agrees to consider the idea because that is what her mother, Lady Capulet, wants her to do. Juliet is faithful to her family through her compliance to them. Once this compliant young girl who is faithful to her family meets Romeo, the love she experiences begins to transform her. After Juliet meets Romeo, many of her opinions and interests begin to change. Juliet is now more excepting of love. While in the beginning of the play, The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet, Juliet seems uninterested in loving anyone. But, after she meets Romeo, her opinion changes. Juliet is now more willing to love. She even confesses her love to Romeo on her balcony by saying, "Take all myself" (2.2.49). Juliet's interests in marriage also changes when she meets Romeo. Before Juliet had met Romeo, she was uninterested in marriage, "It is an honor that I dream not of." (1.3.66). Juliet had said this to her mother, Lady Capulet, when the general topic of marriage was being discussed. But after the feast where Juliet met Romeo, she tells him in her garden that she wishes to be married. She came to this decision to accept marriage because of the fact that she met and now loves Romeo. Juliet's is no longer as faithful to her family through compliance after she meets Romeo. Juliet is no longer as obedient to her family. When her father, Lord Capulet, tells her that he has arranged for Juliet to be married to Paris, she objects. By doing this she is being faithful to her own morals and being faithful to her husband. She is willing to comfort her father, Lord Capulet, in order to have what she believes is right and stay faithful to her husband even though her father threatens to disown her. Juliet is also no longer faithful to her family. After the feast her family throws and Juliet learns that the one she loves is her family's enemy, she is willing to give up her name, the Capulet name, for this love of hers. Juliet says "And I'll no longer be a Capuelt." (2.2.36) if Romeo will not give up his name in for their love. By the end of William Shakespeare's play The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet, Juliet is completely transformed by love into a woman who is faithful to her husband, Romeo, instead of her family, the Capulet family. Juliet is willing to deceive her family in order to be with Romeo. Juliet keeps her relationship with Romeo from her family. It is kept a secret from Lord and Lady Capulet that Romeo was even near Juliet. The only person who knows about the relationship is the Capulet's nurse and she keeps the secret and delivers messages to Romeo for Juliet. Juliet is also willing to do anything to be with her husband, Romeo. When Romeo was banished from Verona, Juliet and the friar devised a plan to help the two newlyweds be together. The friar gave Juliet a potion that will make her appear dead to everyone around. Then, the friar was going to send for Romeo. Even though Juliet had many fears about taking the potion, she still took it because she loved her husband and wanted to be with him. Juliet is also willing to kill herself to be with her husband. After she wakes up from the potion and finds Romeo dead, she immediately takes a dagger and kills herself so that she can be with Romeo, even in death. In William Shakespeare's The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet, Juliet is transformed by the love of Romeo. In the beginning of the play, she is a young girl who is very faithful to her family, the Capulet family. Once she meets Romeo, that all changes. She becomes a woman who is now extremely loyal to the man she loves, her husband Romeo. Work Cited Shakespeare, William. The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet. Elements of Literature Third Course. Ed. Kathleen Daniel et. al. Austin: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 2000. 735-851.
Sandra Day O'Connor was born March 26, 1930, in El Paso, Texas. Her parents, Harry and Ada Mae, owned the Lazy-B-Cattle Ranch in southeastern Arizona, where O'Connor grew up. O'Connor experienced a difficult life on the ranch in her early years. The ranch itself did not receive electricity or ru...
O’Connor was born on March 26th, 1930 in Texas. She graduated Stanford University in 1950, where she studied economics. She then received her Bachelors of Law from Stanford Law School. She finished third in her class. After graduating law school she was denied interviews by many law firms solely because she was a woman.
Ruth Ginsburg, born March 15, 1933 in Brooklyn, New York is a United State Supreme Court Justice and the second woman to become a Justice. The second daughter of Nathan and Cecelia Bader, she grew up in a low-income, working class neighborhood in Brooklyn. Ruth’s mother, Cecelia, who was a tremendous influence on her life, taught her the importance of independence and a good education, although she herself did not attend college but worked in a garment factory to pay for her brothers tuition, an act of selflessness that forever impressed Ruth. In Ruth’s later years she attended James Madison High School where she excelled in her studies. During her time in high school, Ruth’s mother struggled with cancer and passed away the day before her daughter's high school graduation. After high school, Ruth attended Cornell University and graduated first in her class in 1954. The same year Ruth married Martin D. Ginsburg who was also law student.The early years of their marriage were challenging as their daughter Jane was born after Martin was drafted into the military in 1954. Martin served fo...
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Due to the lack of job offers at the time, she made the decision to transition in to a career in public service as a deputy attorney general in California for San Mateo County.9 At the time, her late husband John O’Connor who also happened to be a lawyer was drafted to the Judge Advocate General’s court during 1953, so the family had to make the move to Frankfurt Germany where she served as a civilian attorney for the quarter Market Center.10 Once the couple returned from Germany, they decided to settle down in Arizona, where O’Connor decided to begin her own private law firm and also at the time began becoming familiar with the Republican Party. By 1965, O’Connor was an assistant attorney general for Arizona and not long after that, she was appointed to the Arizona State Senate.11 After being re-elected again twice and becoming a Republican majority leader, she was elected as the judge of the Maricopa County Superior Court where she served for five years until she was granted the job of Arizona court of Appeals.12 In July of 1981, President Ronald Reagan decided to carry out his campaign promise, which was to appoint the first woman to the Supreme Court. When Justice Potter Stewart had retired, President Reagan had gladly appointed Sandra Day O’Connor to the Supreme Court. The U.S. senate unanimously confirmed her
Sarah Vaughan, born March 27, 1924, was very talented and everyone knew this. The word was passed along so even those that never went to church knew how gifted she was. The word got around to Newark's Little Jimmy Scott, a jazz singer himself. He remembered the gossip being that Sarah Vaughan could become another Marian Anderson.
From the beginning, Sandra Day was a very smart and talented woman. After being sent to the Radford School for Girls, she finally got to go to a public school,
The Life of Samuel Clemens A.K.A. Mark Twain Samuel Langhorne Clemens is better known as Mark Twain, the distinguished novelist, short story writer, essayist, journalist, and literary critic who ranks among the great figures of American Literature. Twain was born in Florida Missouri, in 1835, To John Marshall Clemens and Jane Lampton. As a new born Twain already had moved four times westward. In 1839 the family moved again, this time eastward to Hannibal, Missouri. Hannibal was a frontier town of less than 500 residents. As small as the town was it offered valuable materials and opportunities for a young writer. Most of the residents knew Samuel well, considering they were on the lower half of the social scale, such as poor whites and slaves. The town of Hannibal was mostly used for farmers coming in from the countryside. It was also a river town, swamped with travelers moving up stream and down stream. Some of the travelers were steamboat men, circus performers, minstrel companies, and showboat actors. Since all this action was going on all the time, that opened a big door to the beginning of Samuel’s stories. It provided a huge source of literary material. Shortly after the death of his father in 1847, he ended the brief period of his schooling to become a printer’s apprentice. Like many nineteenth century authors, he was preparing for his writing career later in life. Working as a Printer’s apprentice he got practice as a typesetter and miscellaneous reading. The first thing Samuel wrote as a used piece was a few skits for his brothers Orion’s Hannibal newspaper and a sketch, for The Dandy Frightening The Squatter, published in Boston in 1852. The first real book ever published by Mark Twain was Life on the Mississippi River. Between 1853 and 1857 Clemens worked a journeyman printer in seven different places. During this trip of making sketches and writing stories, he began eastward by boat. Twain started writing letters telling about his visits to New York and the Middle West in 1867. On his trip he seemed to have gotten him self in a lot a trouble such as disorderly conduct. After time passed Mark kept writing short stories here and there and a few sketches also. However, in 1869 he became part owner of the Buffalo Express. In 1870 Mark met the girl of his dreams and Olivia Langdon and
At the young age of twelve, Twain lost his father. Ever since the loss of his father, he began to work in various jobs. From starting as “an apprentice, then a composer, with local printers, contributing occasional squibs to local newspapers” (“Mark Twain”). The early start of responsibility was just the beginning of his career. During the time, he was working for the newspaper, for six years in the newspaper company, he “finally ended up as an assistant to his brother, Orion” (“Samuel Langhorne Clemens.”). He stayed in Iowa by his brother’s side until he
Act 1 Scene 3, is the scene where we are introduced to Juliet when her Nurse and mother, Lady Capulet are introducing the idea of marriage and love. Juliet is portrayed as youthful, innocent and obedient, this is further emphasised when the Nurse makes constant references to Juliet’s childhood. When her mother bring up the idea of marriage, Juliet replies “It is an honour that I dream not of” when she states that she has given no thought to the idea of marriage, means even though she does not love Paris, if told to fall in love with Paris she would because she obeying her parents and only should care about their opinion on matter. This would have related to the Elizabethan audience because she was being loyal to her parents and at that time loyalty to your family was the most important agenda. Shakespeare uses the predictable behaviour at
Lady Capulet had told the Nurse to call for Juliet so they could talk in secret, however the Nurse does not leave. Lady Capulet wanted to talk about marriage to Juliet because she is getting to be that age. When Lady Capulet asks Juliet what she thinks about marriage Juliet says that she does not want to be married. This causes Lady Capulet to describe in detail a handsome and rich potential husband for Juliet that she would like Juliet to check out at the ball. Without Juliet’s feelings about marriage the love story would have not happened how it is happening. Lady Capulet shows a few character traits from this quote. One of these traits is that Lady Capulet is shallow. When describing why Paris is the perfect match for Juliet she says, “So
Born in 1834 as Samuel Langhorne Clemens, Mark Twain set out on his own when he was eighteen years old. He traveled America, working as a riverboat captain, gold rush explorer, and finally as a writer. As a newspaper reporter in Nevada he wrote articles poking fun at politicians. To keep his identity secret he signed his articles “Mark Twain.” The name is a term he learned as a steamboat captain. The term means that the water is deep enough for a steamboat to sail safely (Rinaldo 7).
The audience’s first impression of Juliet however, is through her interaction with her mother (Lady Capulet) and the Nurse. From the Nurse’s remarks, the audience learns that Juliet is thirteen and “Come Lammas-eve at night shall [Juliet turn] fourteen” (Act I.3.18-9). As Juliet enters the presence of her mother and the Nurse, Shakespeare portrays Juliet as a very faithful daughter. When summoned by the Nurse, Juliet comes promptly then responds politely to her mother “Madam, I am here, what is your will?” (Act I.3.7). When Juliet refers to her mother as ‘madam” (Act I.3.7), the audience also gets the impression of Juliet being compliant to her elder’s wishes. This can be observed when her mothe...
In a world corrupted by violence, where following tradition means honoring hate, love gets lost. In Romeo and Juliet, Juliet is an innocent, easily manipulated child at the beginning of the play, but her quick maturation into a strong-willed woman in love contributes to the theme real love is an unstoppable, all-powerful force that can reshape individuals as well as the society they inhabit. At first, Juliet is a dependent character who religiously obeys her parents; however, once she meets her true love, she becomes self-aware and strong-willed and in due coarse, risks everything for true love. Ultimately, this concludes in her inevitable death.
According to Perry (2006), service learning, when executed well, may benefit individual learners and the community at large. On the individual level, service learning increases self-esteem, fosters problem solving and leadership skills, enhances social and emotional development, and improves academic performance. On the community level, service learning promotes a sense of civic responsibility. A challenge for any teacher hoping to provide meaningful civic engagement opportunities for students is maximizing the aforementioned benefits while minimizing the risks. There is not a magical formula that can be used to ensure that students will become actively engaged in their communities. However, with careful design, service learning offers faculty members a means for creating powerful community-based learning opportunities.