Juliet

Juliet goes through a great development throughout the play

Juliet is the female protagonist of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. She is the only daughter of Lord Capulet, who remarks that “she hath not seen the change of fourteen years” (1.2.9), which means that she is 13. This may seem extremely young to modern readers, but during the Elizabethan era the legal age of marriage for women was 12. 

Juliet goes through a great development throughout the play. We first meet her in Act 1, Scene 3, and she comes across as a very dutiful girl with no will of her own. When her mother informs her that she might be married to Count Paris, Juliet replies: “I’ll look to like, if looking liking move. / But no more deep will I endart mine eye / Than your consent gives strength to make it fly.” (1.3.90-92). She is saying that she will do her best to like Paris but only to the extent her mother wishes. I...