This paper seeks to analyze the characters in the popular story Juliet and Romeo. The paper tries to review how the author of this book meddles around with characters, giving them certain traits to keep the story going and attractive up to the last bit of the whole book. From the story of Juliet and Romeo, we realize that there is a change in both the characters (Gale et al. 20). Romeo, in the first scene, changes gradually from an innocent adolescent and becomes a responsible adult in the progress of the play. Juliet, on the other hand, also experiences changes during the play, even though her changes are not genuine from the author’s perspective. The author says that her transition has a sense of forced maturity within a short period. The play majorly emphasizes Juliet’s youth, ignoring her growing maturity. From Juliet’s personality, we realize that she has no personality flaw, which may lead to her downfall throughout the story, and she even thrives to become the tragic heroine in the play (Gale et al. 20). The author develops hero personality systematically to an extent where she becomes the heroine of the play.
Juliet and Romeo are the main characters in the play. Juliet, in particular, is presented to be the most outstanding in the play. This is because of her superhuman ability to possess some inner strengths, enabling her to possess maturity above her age. She is also quiet and obedient throughout the play. In other characters specifically, Tybalt is at loggerheads with both Juliet and Romeo. He is even ready for a duel with Romeo st scene three of the play. The feuds within the play shift the whole story from being a love comedy to a tragedy. Shakespeare never seems interested in the physical appearance of these two actors, but he mentions how young Juliet is by the time she falls in love with Romeo. Given that it is very rare in real cases to find such a young woman like Romeo falling in love so much with a man, this, therefore, affects the reader by giving them an opportunity to have a personal feel of how the two were in love.
As mentioned earlier, Juliet’s personality included obedience, love and kindness, that is, quietness. On the other hand, Romeo’s outstanding personality up to the end of the story is their loving personality (Mann et al. 14). This was evident throughout the play from the point when he started telling Juliet how much he loved her up to the moment when he died just to follow her to the grave. Juliet’s loving personality makes her defy her parent’s advice to marry the rich and good-looking Paris. Romeo also kills both Tybalt and Paris just because of the love he has for Juliet. Both characters believe in love. Romeo’s belief in love makes him kill Tybalt, Juliet’s cousin, just because he even wants to kill him because of his love for Juliet. He also kills Paris later just because of love. Juliet also continues with her love for Romeo even after he kills her cousin Tybalt.
Romeo has a weakness, and that is a lack of self-control. This is evident when he kills both Tybalt and Paris just in the name of love. He also has strength and love. He demonstrates his loving ability when he kills Juliet’s cousin (Mann et al. 14). Juliet, on the other hand, has the strength of being resilient and committed. She showed her commitment and resilience when she refused to listen to her parents despite her father’s threats. My character is fully developed and dynamic, and this is evident from their progressive development from adolescence to adulthood. My character surprises me. Romeo, at the point when he killed both Tybalt and Paris, poses a lot of surprises since that is the least one would expect of him. My character, Romeo, is not sympathetic; this is demonstrated by his actions at the end of the book when he does the killing. There is no person I know that I can relate to him.
In summary, the story of Juliet and Romeo has a lot to teach about character development in a book, story or article. The author even chose to present his work with these characters considering the nature of the message he wanted to pass which in this case is a love message.
Work Cited
Gale, Cengage Learning. A Study Guide for William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. Gale, Cengage Learning, 2015.
Mann, Juliette. “Devils to Ourselves: An Analysis of the Humanistic Pessimism that Links Chaucer’s Troilus and Criseyde to Shakespeare’s Troilus and Cressida as well as Romeo and Juliet.” (2017).
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