Complex Character In Romeo And Juliet

“To be, or not to be: that is the question” (William Shakespeare). Is Juliet a realistic character to the present world? Afterall, if she was not, the play would not be such a phenomenon. Juliet is a teenager who believes she has fallen in love with Romeo and is quite dramatic about it. The actions and emotions she shows throughout the play are a key factor to why the audience can relate to her. In William Shakespeare’s The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet, Juliet is a realistic character to today’s audience because throughout the play she is suicidal, dramatic, and rebellious. Juliet at the beginning of the play can be perceived as a naive and innocent young girl, but by the end she is a rebellious, self-centered, basic teenager. Her character …show more content…
Shakespeare is known for giving his characters very dramatic lines, scenes, and so on. To make Juliet any less than a dramatic, rubbish teenager would make the whole play a waste of time. If it were not for her and Romeo being dramatic they would not kill themselves and the play would not be a tragedy. In The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet it states “That “banished,” that one word “banished,” / Hath slain ten thousand Tybalts. Tybalt’s death / Was woe enough, if it had ended there; / Or, if sour woe delights in fellowship / And needly will be ranked with other griefs, / Why followed not, when she said “Tybalt’s dead,” / Thy father, or thy mother, nay, or both, / Which modern lamentation might have moved? / But with a rearward following Tybalt’s death, / “Romeo is banished”—to speak that word / Is father, mother, Tybalt, Romeo, Juliet, / All slain, all dead. “Romeo is banished”— / There is no end, no limit, measure, bound, / In that word’s death; no words can that woe sound” ( Shakespeare III. ii. 113-124). This quote from the play is an example of one of the many scenes where Juliet is over dramatic and creates an illusion of how messed up her life is. Juliet makes banishment