Juliet Capulet is an impulsive, impressionable, and emotional girl. She often acts irrationally and based purely on emotion. She demonstrates these characteristics throughout the play by what she says and how she acts. When Lord Capulet tells Juliet she has to marry Paris, she becomes extremely emotional and says she’ll kill herself if she has to. In the script she says, “... Do thou but call my resolution wise, and with this knife I’ll help it presently.”(Shakespeare 212) Juliet shows how irrational she is because she would rather take her own life than marry Paris since she was already married to Romeo. Juliet also shows that she’s impulsive because she decides to marry Romeo the night they meet. In scene 2, Juliet says, “If that thy bent of love be honorable, thy purpose marriage, send me word tomorrow...”(Shakespeare 88) She’s telling Romeo that if he’s serious about her, he should marry her. …show more content…
Symbolism There are many examples of symbolism within Romeo and Juliet. One powerful example is how sadness is represented by the dark. At the beginning of the play, Romeo shut himself in his dark room because he was depressed that Rosaline didn’t love him back. In the book Lord Montague says, “But all so soon as the all-cheering sun should in the farthest east begin to draw the shady curtain from Aurora’s bed, away from light 2 steals home my heavy son.”(Shakespeare 16) Romeo closes all the curtains in his room to make it pitch black, directly reflecting his sadness and depression. Theme One of the most prevalent themes in Romeo and Juliet is that hatred leads to destruction. In the play, the Montagues and Capulets have a long-lasting feud between them. In the prologue it says, “From ancient grudge break to new mutiny, where civil blood makes civil hands unclean. From forth the fatal loins of these two foes a pair of star-crossed lovers take their life,”(Shakespeare
When Juliet inevitable meets and marries Romeo, her personality drastically changes. She develops a rebellious and independent attitude. After Juliet’s cousin, Tybalt’s death, the whole of the Capulet mansion is grieving, and so Capulet decides to suddenly arrange Juli-et’s wedding to cheer everyone up ‘a sudden day of joy’. What he doesn’t realise is that he is being insensitive to Juliet’s feelings and even his wife, Lady Capulet ‘You are too hot’. Juliet just having stepped into adulthood flatly refuses to marry Paris ‘He shall not make me there a joyful bride’. Capulet hearing is this enraged as Juliet as gone against his desires. He does not understand why Juliet would not want to marry the legible Paris as he had status and money. Juliet’s selfish ways irate him and he threatens to hit her ‘my fingers itch’ the fact that Capulet feels the need to hit his daughter expressions the amount of anger that exists in him. ‘Itch’ meaning uncomfortable sensation indicates that Capulet will not be satisfied at this point until he hits Juliet as he is that shocked as her reply. He also rudely insults Juliet ‘you green-sickness currion’. Further studying Capulet’s speech you notice he uses a lot of rhetorical questions such as ‘How will none?’, perhaps this is because he is so dumbfounded that Juliet refused him and so he is trying to find out why she isn’t following his orders. Capulet forces Juliet to marry Paris, despite her being in love with Romeo. Her father shows complete ignorance for her decision, and tells her to marry Paris or he will never speak to her again. “Get thee to church a’thursday,, or never after look me in the face.” Likewise, Juliet fails to support her father. She knows she is the only child, and is the only cha...
She did not possess the ability to make good decisions on her own, nor did she think logically about any situation she was put in. When Romeo and Juliet originally met, she proposed marriage first, without thinking of any of the consequences. Briefly, it was brought up that the twos parents hated each other, but was promptly passed aside to seemingly more important matters when Juliet said, “Or, if thou wilt not, be but sworn my love/ And I’ll no longer be a Capulet” (Shakespeare II.ii.36-37). The fact that Juliet's cousin, Tybalt, hated Montagues and would jump at the opportunity to kill Romeo, something he had mentioned he would do earlier that night. Nor was the fact that Juliet was engaged to be engaged to Paris, or that marrying for love was an absolutely insane concept. It was decided that the only way for Romeo to prove his love for Juliet, who he had met LESS THAN TWELVE HOURS BEFORE, would be to marry her in secret. This complete lack of decision making skills was proved to be true when Juliet informed Romeo of this notion, saying “If that thy bent of love honourable/ Thy purpose marriage, send me word to-morrow/ By one I’ll procure to thee.” (Shakespeare II.ii.149-151). This complete lack of life skills was once again demonstrated when Juliet got it into her head that pretending to be
William Shakespeare is known for writing tragedies with dramatic plotlines. One of his most renowned playwrights, The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet, features two lovers, who are entangled in a forbidden romance. Upon hearing the news of Juliet’s death, Romeo is devastated and immediately formulates a plan. Romeo’s plan proves to be consistent with his rash and impulsive nature. He immediately decides to buy poison in order to commit suicide, and then return to Verona to see Juliet one last time. “Well, Juliet, I will lie with thee tonight. / Thou art swift to enter in the thoughts of desperate men! / I do remember an apothecary” (Shakespeare 5.1.35-37). Determined, Romeo plans to break into Juliet’s tomb to lie with
When Juliet was facing high stress and depression, Capulet decided that it will be a good idea if he made Juliet marry Paris. However it ends up making Juliet’s mental state worst, it gives her, even more, reasons for stress and puts her in a deeper depression. Also, when Juliet refuses to get married to him, both he and lady Capulet abuse Juliet verbally and physically. They even take it too far by saying things and doing stuff no parent should ever do to their child. At that point, Juliet could no longer maintain herself and decide to go the friar and seek wisdom.
Lady Capulet tried to stop her husband from beating Juliet and being generally abusive, but failed. When asked for help she said “Talk not to me, for I will not speak a word, do as thou wilt, for I have done with thee.” She said “I will not speak a word, but I will Juliet Capulet Juliet Capulet, our female lover of the play. She seems to fall into love too quickly, seeming quite desperate. She looks like she is willing, and it seems she rushes into love with Romeo, and maybe there is a reason for this.
Romeo and Juliet's reckless love for each other spirals down a line of impulsive decisions. In Shakespeare's play The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet, there are fast decisions based on their emotions. In the setting of Verona, these lovers act fast, making uncareful decisions, leading to a chain of bad events throughout the play. During the play, Shakespeare creates a lesson teaching the audience to think before acting. Impulsivity is portrayed when Shakespeare rushes the characters into decisions based on their emotions, leading to irreversible consequences.
Impulsivity is when people act mentally, physically, or verbally without properly thinking. Romeo and Juliet, written by William Shakespeare, puts perspective on Romeo and Juliet, who were born into two opposing families, Montague and Capulet. They are star-crossed lovers and stick together to the best of their abilities. Romeo is a key character when put through hesitating situations that leave several consequences in his life. This is like modern-day adolescents, where impulsive decisions leave them in undesirable conditions.
Juliet expresses her impetuous actions in Williams Shakespeare literature, Romeo and Juliet. Her impulsive decisions are based on her deep love for Romeo, as well as the certainty that their family descendants despise each other. Juliet doesn’t acknowledge the consequences that attach to her actions. For instance, when Juliet kissed her love interest, Romeo, who she had just met a moment ago. This is shown in Act 1, Scene 5, when the two eagerly kiss each other, Romeo states, “Sin from thy lips?
Love,a wonderful emotion but is it worth everything? Romeo and Juliet a play written by William Shakespeare in which people who face endless challenges by which their loyalty,recklessness,and impulsiveness drive them to fall into abyss.
In the play Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare, it has multiple themes including death and rivalry. But the most significant, prominent theme in Romeo and Juliet is the theme of love. It is presented in many different ways and there are many different aspects to it. Shakespeare displays these aspects using lightness and darkness motifs such as the sun, moon and stars. Romeo's love for Juliet shows the more emotional, pure, and true aspects of love.
Romeo and Juliet is the tragic love story of two star-crossed lovers. Shakespeare used light and dark imagery throughout the play to make this story more dramatic and to show how their love is the light in the dark abyss of their families feud. Shakespeare uses light and dark symbolism in the book, as well, to display the characters intentions, if the character was against or in favor of the antagonist.
In the play Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare, there is an underlying theme of doing things on impulse and living life by the moment. Along with this theme, there is also a theme of misunderstanding that is present throughout both of the stories. The same themes are presented in the short story The Three Questions by Leo Tolstoy. They might present the same themes, but in the end these two stories portray the characters and events in the story differently, fundamentally changing the message they convey and the story they tell. In Romeo and Juliet, the theme of living by your heart is romanticized in the beginning of the story, with Romeo and Juliet falling into love, but in the
In The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet, William Shakespeare writes of many lessons for the audience and reader. In Romeo and Juliet we see a variety of different scenarios that the young teens go through. Shakespeare shows that through life one goes through different periods such as, a naive period, a time of recklessness, and a times of love. He conveys this in several different ways in the play.
Lady Capulet is mad that Romeo is still alive, and she expresses it to Juliet. Juliet feels bad about her mother’s statement because this is the man she loves, and her parents want him dead. Not only that, but Juliet believes that she might not ever get to see her husband again. Capulet gets angry with Juliet because she does not want to marry Paris and he states, “To go with Paris to Saint Peter’s Church, or I will drag thee on a hurdle thither.” (3.5,155-160) Capulet and Lady Capulet are forcing Juliet into a situation she does not want to be in while she is already in despair that she cannot be with her
As can be seen above Juliet Capulet is very impatience, loving at most times and so determined that when she wants something she will get it. She loved Romeo and wanted to marry him right away and couldn’t wait to hear the news of what Romeo said about marriage.She wasn’t going to marry Paris even if she had to fake her death if that's what it took. Moreover she was going to be with Romeo no matter what anyone said. Juliet's move toward sexual and emotional maturity when she anticipates the consummation of her marriage to