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Romeo and Juliet
Juliet
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who is Juliet?
member of the
Capulet
family, only daughter in the
Capulet
family,13 years old
what is her role in the story?
She is a
protagonist
Her relationship with Romeo
drives
the play
forward
She matures over the
course
of the play
What does she represent?
The
tension
between
societal
expectations and personal desire
"My child is yet a stranger in the world, She hath not seen the change of
14 years
"
-Capulet
on lines 8-9
treated as her fathers
property
( an attitude typical in
Elizabethan
England)
She is presented as
Naive
because she has no
worldly knowledge
"Then have my lips the
sin
that they have took" -
Juliet line 119
Her
innocence
and
obedience
begin to decrease
She orders him to
kiss
her again, using an
imperative
sentence
This may have shocked
Shakespeare's
audience
"What's in a name? That which we call a rose By any other word would
smell
as
sweet
" - Juliet
Presented as insightful as she knows the
family feud
is
pointless
This knowledge is shown because she asserts that names don't really
matter
She also uses
hypophora
"O, swear not by the
moon
, th'
inconstant moon
" -Juliet
Presented as
pragmatic
Juliet is frustrated by Romeo's
poetic
language
This suggests that Juliet is more used to love in
'courly'
terms
Could also suggest that she is the more
dominant
in the relationship
"
Beautiful
tyrant
, fiend angelical! Dove-feathered raven,
wolvish-ravening
lamb!" - Juliet
" Beautiful tyrant, fiend angelical!
Dove-feathered raven
,
wolvish-ravening lamb
!" - Juliet
Shows that she is
conflicted
Does not know who to chose :
Family
or
Husband
She uses
oxymorons
to create this
impression
"I will not
marry
yet" - Juliet
She
rejects
her family
The modal verb "
will
" and negation "
not
" makes this clear
This may have shocked Shakespeare's
audience
"O,
happy dagger
, This is
my sheath. There rust
, and let me die." - Juliet
She is fully committed to
Romeo
which has driven her to
desperation
These lines also imply that Juliet has
matured
, given the
sexual
connotations