Juliet’s relationship with her mother is not very good. Infact she treats the nurse more as a mother rather than L. Capulet.
L. Capulet says: “this is the matter- Nurse, give leave awhile, we must talk in secret. Nurse, come back again…” This quote shows that L. Capulet is not comfortable about talking with her own daughter as she probably never had the kind of relationship a mother would have with a child. Another way where this is shown is when Juliet calls
L. Capulet ‘Madam’ and not ‘Mother’ like most kids would.
After Juliet meets Romeo she shows us how practical she is. Romeo snicks to her back garden and she tells him that he is put in great danger.
She says: “ If they do see thee, they will kill thee” this quote shows that although she is in love with Romeo by that part of the play she realizes the danger he is put in by coming to visit her and makes sure he will be fine.
In the end of that scene Juliet tells Romeo that he has to decide if he is serious about the relationship and that she will send a messenger to him the day after. He will have to tell the messenger whether he wants to marry Juliet or not.
When Juliet is waiting for the nurse to come back with Romeos response she is very impatient. As she is thrilled to know what is his response every minute seems to be forever.
She says: “Is three long hours yet she is not come”. Juliet appears to be impatient in a few places throughout the play when she is waiting for big news or for something she is looking forward to happen.
By the end of the play Juliet develops to be much more mature and clever then she was before.
In act 3 scene 5 she says: “Indeed I never shall be satisfied with Romeo, till I behold him-dead-is my poor heart so far a kinsman vexed”.
In this sentence there another message which L. Capulet doesn’t necessarily get but the readers and the audience understands. L. Capulet is sure that Juliet means that she will not be happy until she holds Romeo dead as he killed Tybalt but what Juliet actually means is that she will not be happy until she holds him and for that time her heart would be dead. This device (Ambiguity) shows how clever Juliet is.
By the end of the Scene Juliet tells her father she refuses to marry Paris as she knows she will be going to hell as your not allowed to marry two people. Her parents obviously don’t know it and her father is getting very frustrated. Capulet says: “Hang thee young baggage, disobedient wretch”.
By this point Juliet has changed a lot from the beginning of the play. In the beginning she used to be loyal and very obedient but now she has changed a lot and says disobeys her father’s requests something that was not acceptable at the time. By the end of this scene Juliet knows that she can’t trust anyone including the person she could always trust, the nurse.
This fact makes Juliet grow even more in a very short period of time and now realize that she is not a little girl and that she has to make her own choices and decisions from now on.
Omer Dotan 10P
