Juliet

Cards (11)

  • 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