In the very beginning of the play, Juliet’s mother, Lady Capulet, asks Juliet her thoughts on marriage. Juliet responds saying “It is an honor that I dream not of,” translating to: I’d rather not get married right now, or at least not to Paris . Later that night, Juliet’s father, Lord Montague, throws a feast to try and show Paris how many just-as-pretty girls there are in Verona, to try and change his mind. Paris claims to still be in love with Juliet, wishing to move up the wedding schedule. At the feast, Juliet meets the younger and apparently more handsome, Romeo Montague. The pair of “star-crossed lovers” decide they need to be wed immediately, after one kiss . This leads to Juliet’s third and final character trait, her …show more content…
Agreeing to marry Romeo after one day; throwing a complete temper-tantrum when asked to marry Paris for the second time; or deciding to commit suicide after her “true love” dies. They always say that opposites attract, but in Romeo and Juliet’s case, it seems to be the exact opposite. Right after Paris and Juliet meet in the Church with Friar Lawrence, Juliet starts crying and telling Friar Lawrence that she would rather kill her self than be unfaithful to Romeo. In Act IX, Scene I, she tells the Friar:
“O, bid me leap, rather than marry Paris, /From off the battlements of yonder tower; /Or walk in thievish ways; or bid me lurk /Where serpents are; chain me with roaring bears; /Or shut me nightly in a charnel house, /O’ercovered quite with dead men’s rattling bones, /With reeky shanks and yellow chapless skulls; /Or bid me go into a new-made grave and hide me dead man in his shroud— /Things that, to hear them told, have made me tremble /And I will do it without fear or doubt, /To live an untainted wife to my sweet