Juliet Character Study

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Juliet Character Study

Cheryl Williams 10t.

When we first hear of Juliet, it is Paris trying to get her father’s consent for them to marry.  Her father is trying to stall Paris, he tells Paris ‘My child is yet a stranger to the world’.  Capulet is referring to Juliet as though she very young and too innocent for marriage.  Capulet also says

        “But woo her, gentle Paris, get her heart,

        My will to her consent is but a part;

        And she agreed, within her scope of choice”.

He could marry her off to Paris without any thought for her feelings like many men of the era did to their daughters but he isn’t, he’s being sensitive to Juliet’s emotions.  The way Capulet talks about Juliet suggests that she’s ‘daddy’s little girl.’

When we first meet Juliet she is talking to her mother.  Her first line tells us a lot about her relationship with her mother.  She calls Lady Capulet ‘Madam’ which would suggest that their relationship isn’t a very close one.

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Also from this scene we can tell that Juliet is quite immature and disinterested in men and marriage, she says ‘It is an honour that I dream not of’.  Lady Capulet tries to persuade Juliet to marry Paris but Juliet is having none of it.  She tells Lady Capulet that she’ll ‘Look to like’.  This shows us that she is optimistic but also stubborn, she isn’t allowing her mother to back her into a corner.

Juliet meets Romeo at Capulet’s great ball.  They talk quite poetically to each other, which suggests she is a romantic person.  I think Shakespeare has ...

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