Character profiles

• at denouement of play--> Capulet regards both Romeo and Juliet as being "poor sacrifices of our enmity"

  also says he will "raise their statues in pure gold"
• Paris: "Younger than she are happy mothers made"

  -Paris looks optimistically on their future together

  -highlights expectations resting on Juliet: within the patriarchal society, Juliet would've been expected to produce heirs
• Lady Capulet: "O me! My child, my only life"
• Nurse: "I think it best you married with the county. O; he's a lovely gentleman! Romeo's a disclout to him"
• Capulet: "My child is yet a stranger in the world"
• Nurse: "I can tell her age unto an hour" --> the characters share a mother-daughter bond, perhaps stronger than that between Juliet and Lady Capulet