Paris

• 'young noblemen, Kingsman to the Prince'
• 1st meet - A1S2 - midway through conversation with lord Capulet - Shakespeare presents Paris as selfish and insensitive here - Lord Capulet trying to talk serious about the Princes statement; Paris changes the subject 'But now, my lord, what say you to my suit?' - follows social code - 'suit'=part marrying Juliet, he's persistent, 'but saying o'er what I have said before', Paris replies 'younger then she are happy mothers made'
• A3S4 - Paris can't read social queues - he won't go away - presents himself as insensitive and laughable
• A4,S1 - Paris + Juliet together for the first time - Friar Lawrence cell - Paris is trying to organise the wedding - greets Juliet with 'my lady and my wife' ; then says, 'They face is mine and thou has slandered it' - belongs to him, possessive - now=ewww, Elizabethan Era= awwww
• Villain - without him, Romeo and Juliet could have been together as they wouldn't had have to fake their own deaths
• similar to Romeo (if not for feud, Romeo would seek Juliet) - Benvolio tells Romeo to take Rosaline off his mind and to look at other women -next scene, Lord Capulet gives Paris the same advice

  uses same metaphors - nurse says Paris is a 'man of wax' - Friar tells Romeo ' The noble shape is but a form of wax'

  both visit Juliet's grave at the same time

  Friar tells both of them to slow down with love
• A5 - Paris cares for Juliet (reprise of Tybalt) - covers tomb with flowers - thinks Romeo has come to dishonour dead Juliet - they fight and he dies (dies for her) - ' lay me with Juliet' even when he's dieing he wants to be with Juliet