Juliet expresses her love for Romeo by stating “O Romeo, Romeo! Wherefore art thou Romeo? Deny is saddened by the fact that Romeo and her are star-crossed lovers because Romeo is Juliet's only love. Their families are enemies therefore, they are bound to be apart forever. Juliet does not want Romeo to be a Montague, she can see that Montague is merely a name and has little to do with who he is as a person. She realizes that one can change their name, however, one cannot change who they are and who one loves. She doesn’t care that he is a Montague she can see past that and her intentions are to be with him anyway. Shakespeare is trying to convey, through Juliet, that what really matters is who someone is as a person. Not something that has nothing to do with their character. “The thing we call a rose would smell just as sweet if we called it by any other name. Romeo would be just as perfect even if he wasn’t called Romeo.” This is Shakespeare further commenting on the idea of star-crossed lovers, and the challenge that Juliet and Romeo are facing through being in love with each other. This is Juliet trying to make right her love for Romeo.
The nurse- The Nurse knew Juliet all her life and was a mother figure to her, she raised Juliet, was there for her through thick and thin, and loved her unconditionally just like a mother should. When the nurse walked in to wake Juliet from her sleep, she was automatically alarmed, she tried to awaken Juliet “Mistress! What, mistress! Juliet!—Fast, I warrant her, she. Why, lamb! Why, lady! Fie, you slug-a-bed. Why, love, I say. Madam! Sweet-heart! Why, bride!” however, there was no response. She yelled for help immediately. When she discovered that Juliet was dead, she was beside herself with pain and anguish.
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Lady Capulet- Lady Capulet automatically enters as she hears the nurse yelling. “O me, O me! My child, my only life, Revive, look up, or I will die with thee!— Help, help! Call help.” Lady Capulet’s reaction even though their last interaction was negative in nature, highlights the fact that her mother above all loves her. The underlying love that Lady Capulet had for her daughter, though she may not have always outwardly expressed it, was extremely strong as they still shared a mother-and-daughter bond.
Lord Capulet- Much like Lady Capulet their last encounter didn’t end well, but ultimately, he loves her. This is depicted when he says “Death, that hath ta'en her hence to make me wail, ties up my tongue and will not let me speak.” Capulet showed more empathy for Paris than he did for Lady Capulet or the Nurse (the people who were closest to her)
Paris- He enters the room, he takes a selfish stance by stating “Have I thought long to see this morning’s face, and doth it gives me such a sight as this?” Much like all the other characters he is still saddened by the turn of events.
The scene starts with the event of Mercutio dying, Romeo then stating that it’s a terrible day. Then Romeo starts to say one of us has to die with him, we will fight to the death because he is not going alone, so you are going with him. Romeo and Tybalt begin to fight, and as a result, Tybalt dies, he’s killed by Romeo. The reason behind Romeo killing Tybalt was because he had a desire to get revenge for Mercutio, Romeo’s friend whom Tybalt killed. Romeo killed Tybalt, and Benvolio told Romeo that he should leave Verona because the Prince would give him the death penalty if he didn’t flee. “The Prince will doom thee death” “If thou art taken. Hence, be gone, away!” “Staying for thine to keep him company. Either thou or I, or both, must go with him.” In Act 3, scene 1, the key event that occurred was Mercutio, Romeo’s friend, dying because of Tybalt. Then Romeo kills Tybalt in an act of revenge for Mercutio. He then is advised by Benvolio, his other friend to flee his home of Verona, otherwise Romeo will suffer the consequences.
1/ 2- Lord Capulet starts out feeling empathetic by asking Juliet why she cries, he then leads on to say that she doesn’t need to be this sad it’s ok things will all be ok “When the sun sets, the air drizzles dew. But at the death of my brother’s son, it rains a downpour. What are you, girl? Some kind of fountain? Why are you still crying? Will you cry forever?” He seems empathetic like he wants to support her and be a good father. We find out he had a good surprise for her or at least he thought he did, being that he had arranged for her to marry Paris. He just wanted to make her happy and then wanted to know why she was so upset. Once he found out the truth of what was going on, he was quite frustrated, he was saying things he shouldn’t have, hurtful things. “Look to it, think on it, I do not use to jest. Thursday is near. Lay hand on heart, advise. You be mine, I’ll give you to my friend. You be not, hang, beg, starve, die in the streets” he expresses these feelings because he found out that Juliet doesn’t want to marry Paris because she is in love with another.
Juliet’s father is having none of it, he says “If you don’t marry Paris then you aren’t my daughter and you aren’t my child, in fact, if you don’t then you will be out on the streets,” she would then mean nothing to him. He was angry and frustrated with what she had said. However, Juliet was only expressing her true feelings, after the fight ended her parents left the room. Juliet was torn, she didn’t know what to do.
Shakespeare shares the theme of Love and Lostness, and how sometimes they can go hand in hand. Her father loves her deeply but when he found out that she loved another he was angry. Juliet was left feeling lost and helpless. She didn’t know what to do, marry Paris and be a good daughter obeying god and her father, living a good life where she could have children and be supported. Alternatively, go with her one true love Romeo, but she would be disowned and thrown out on the streets, all this because she fell in love with her star-crossed lover.
Romeo
We are first shown Romeo when Benvolio and Romeo are talking, Romeo suggests using a plantain leaf (which helps heal cuts and grazes) on his shin “Your plantain leaf is excellent for that.” Romeo is feeling trapped and as though he has no freedom. He feels as though he will never be in love again, and he will never feel as he did for the woman he loved first, Rosaline. “Not mad, but bound more than a madman is, shut up in prison, kept without my food, Whipped and tormented and—Good e'en, good fellow.” When Romeo is upset Benvolio is trying to lift his spirits by advising to look for other women, not just be stuck on one who doesn’t love you back. “Take thou some new infection to thy eye, And the rank poison of the old will die.” Meaning Benvolio is saying to look at other girls because new love will replace old love. Benvolio is advising Romeo to move on from Rosaline. So, as readers, we can see that he is very sensitive from the start.
During the middle of the play, there is a lot that happens, Mercutio gets stabbed, Tybalt gets shot; Romeo then states “I am fortune's fool!”. There is a lot of drama with Romeo and Juliet, that arises from the fact that they aren’t able to see each other and are star-crossed lovers. They just weren’t meant to be, which is devastating for both of them. Romeo loved Juliet from the moment he saw her, he said 'Did my heart love till now?' and 'I ne'er saw true beauty till this night.'
When Mercutio gets stabbed this affects Romeo deeply because Mercutio was his best friend, they were like brothers for each other. The three of them were fighting over Juliet and how he wasn’t good enough for her. So, this sparked anger within Romeo. But when Tybalt stabs Mercutio it is all over Romeo was out to get revenge. Which he did, when he shot him, to death, hence his being banished. It is hard for Romeo and Juliet to see each other through everything that is happening, with all the fighting and the rules that are taking place. They don’t have the time to see each other, then when Romeo finds out that he was banished he says “Ha, banishment?
Be merciful, say 'death,'/For exile hath more terror in his look,/Much more than death.” He would’ve rather faced death than have Juliet been taken away from him, this shows us his love for her and what she truly means to him. We know this already because when the two characters are first introduced to each other it was love for them a first sight. We can see within Romeo how much she means to him. During the middle of the play, there are a lot of emotions running through Romeo, such as; anger, sadness, anguish, and frustration.
When we approach the end of the play Romeo really shows his love for her. He expresses his love when it comes to Juliet’s death. In order for Juliet to be with Romeo she has to pretend as though she is dead so she doesn’t have to marry Paris. But when the news traveled to Romeo, when he was in banishment, he was furious. He didn’t know what was going on because Friar was meant to give him a letter but it didn’t get to him in time. When he found out Juliet was dead, he went to the apothecary and brought poison for himself. This clearly shows the readers how much he loves Juliet; he loves her more than life itself. He was willing to die for Juliet if she was dead so was, so he says “Come, cordial and not poison, go with me To Juliet’s grave, for there must I use thee.” He refers to the poison as being cordial because it is doing good, it is bringing him and Juliet back together. We see his true feelings in the last part of the play, we know that Romeo loves Juliet with all his heart and that in the end they were meant to be after all. Bringing to the forefront the message that if love was meant to be it will always find a way, even if it does come with its challenges. Nothing will get in the way of true love, even if like Romeo and Juliet they were star-crossed.
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