William Shakespeare's Romeo And Juliet

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Juliet Juliet plays one of the most influential puerile characters in literary history. In the beginning of the play Juliet is viewed as a young innocent teen that is being highly influenced by her parents to marry her suitor, Paris. Juliet responded as a common defiant pre/teenage daughter. "I’ll look to like, if looking liking move” Upon taking a closer look to this statement we translated it into layman's word. “I will marry him if I like him”. I then went home and studied this proclamation further. I came to the conclusion that we as a class had possibly translated it wrong. Keeping her age in mind, the amount of hormones that were running through her were skyrocketing. At that age most young ladies can be quite rebellious. Presumably Juliet’s parents had made it clear they would like her to wed Paris. As proven throughout the play, Juliet liked to follow her heart. My conclusion is that the statement really meant this. “I don’t really want to be with him, but I don’t want you to get mad so I’ll pretend to try”. …show more content…

Juliet (although not stated in the play) seemingly felt compelled to someone to marry. When she first encountered the mystery man she could see his infatuation with her. We later discover that this mystery man is in fact the offspring of her family’s enemy. Romeo is a Montague. Romeo is a living, breathing hopeless romantic. He can be described as in love with the idea of ‘love’ itself. He was completely and utterly captivated by Rosaline. Unfortunately, she rejected him. Romeo’s friends take him to ‘crash’ the ball (Juliet’s family

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