Juliet

Juliet has changed since the beginning of the play because...

At the beginning of the play Romeo and Juliet we get introduced to Juliet as a young girl that lives in the City of Verona, with her parents who are trying to convince her to marry a man named Paris..., “Marry, that “marry” in the very theme I came to talk of...” (page 43 line 64). But even though it was her par parents wished for her to marry at that young of an age she felt as though she wasn’t old enough and rejected her parents offer..., “It is an honour that I dream not of.” (page43 line 67). Even though she had said she wasn’t ready to marry later in the play Juliet falls in love with a young man named Romeo. She soon forgot how she had felt about marriage just days earlier and wanted to marry Romeo, because they were madly in love with each other. They got married by a close family friend, Friar Laurence. Juliet has changed majorly since the beginning of the play. She ends up marrying at her young age and contradicting herself by doing so.

I would NOT consider doing what Juliet decides to do because...

Juliet had felt as though she had to do something very dramatic for her family and family’s friends not to judge her and feel as though she is a to the family for loving a Montague. She felt as though it would be best to pretend like she was dead so she didn’t have to marry Paris. She went to Friar Laurence’s call and convinced her to give her a potion to put her into a deep sleep so everyone would think that she was dead..., “Unless thou tell me how I may prevent it... When presently through all thy veins shall run a cold and drowsy humour; for no pulse shall keep his native progress... no warmth, no breath, shall testify thou livest;... then awake from a pleasant sleep.” Juliet was nervous and very curious If she should believe him, but in the end she did. When she took the potion everyone believed as though she was dead, including Romeo. I would not have chosen the same path as Juliet because in the end she ended up hurting everyone in her family, and killing her one true love and herself.