Romeo and Juliet
Juliet Capulet
Romeo's secret wife
The only daughter of the Capulets, not yet fourteen, sincere, quick-witted and brave enough to marry the son of her family's enemy.
Juliet is the daughter of Lord and Lady Capulet, raised more by the Nurse than by her stiff, distant mother. She is clever, direct and unafraid to say what she means. When her mother asks how she feels about marriage to Count Paris, Juliet answers politely and carefully, promising only to look at him with an open mind.
Her world expects her to do as she is told. Her father holds that she is too young to marry, then abruptly decides the opposite. What Juliet wants is a marriage of her own choosing, and once she has made it she holds to it with a resolve that surprises the adults around her. She is the one who thinks through consequences, such as asking Romeo to send word the next day about his honorable intentions.
“I will not marry yet!”
In the story
Contains spoilers.
Juliet falls for Romeo at her family's feast, learns too late that he is a Montague, and answers his declaration from her balcony that night. She is married to him in Friar Laurence's cell the next day. After Tybalt's death and Romeo's banishment, she weeps, then chooses her husband over her cousin, and spends one night with Romeo before he leaves.
When her parents order her to marry Paris, Juliet refuses, is disowned by her furious father, and finds the Nurse advising her to give in. She turns to the Friar, takes his sleeping draught, and is laid in the family tomb. She wakes to find Romeo dead beside her and stabs herself with his dagger. Her death finally ends the feud between the families.
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