`I think it best you married with the County. `
It would have been heart wrenching for her to know that she let Juliet die without being on the best of terms with her.
In some ways I feel the most sympathy for the Friar as he has the deaths of both Romeo and Juliet on his shoulders. He devised that plan that lead the young couple to their deaths and that in itself is a big burden.
Paris deserves sympathy as well, mainly because, although he didn’t love Juliet, he held a deep affection for her, and this only lead to him being killed.
`Do not deny to him that you love me`
Romeo thought he loved Juliet; he was willing to do anything for her. He ended tragically by committing suicide. Juliet, the bravest character in the whole book, loved Romeo and was also willing to do anything for him. She realised her lover had just committed suicide and decided to do the same; she couldn’t bear the thought of living without him.
`Haply some poison yet doth hang on them To make me die with a restorative. `
In my opinion I feel the most sympathy for Juliet. She was forced to marry someone that she did not want to marry. She was still young and naïve. She had much to learn. She became vulnerable after the threat of being disowned by her parents and after the betrayal of the nurse. Juliet was very close to the nurse and assumed that she would stand by Juliet and support her actions. Obviously Juliet assumed wrong, and all of a sudden Juliet had no one to talk and turn to. She was very brave at this point, and should be admired greatly, she had no one to turn to and yet she had the courage to go through with the plan, set by the Friar. How many fourteen year olds today would do that?
At fourteen she’s seems years beyond her age, yet at the same time still seem very naïve. When her father tells her she’s marrying Paris, she would rather die than marry him. She decides to take the potion that the Friar will give her because she sees it as the only way of getting out of marrying Paris. She is prepared to take the potion even though she knows there is a possibility of it being poison.
` What if it be a poison which the Friar Subtly hath ministered to have me dead, `
The plan should have worked out perfectly, but it didn’t. A series of unfortunate events ruined everything.
Another thing that needs to be taken into account is the trouble that Tybalt stirred up. When Romeo and Juliet were up against that, what chance did they really have of surviving?
I think that Juliet deserves the most sympathy, she had it the toughest. And when it seemed as if the whole world was against her, she fought back and even though things did not turn out the way they should have done, she carried on until the final end.