Title: Romeo and Juliet: Character Analysis of Juliet | Romeo and Juliet Play Summary & Study Guide | CliffsNotes Shakespeare Central
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Juliet

Romeo and Juliet
William Shakespeare
Character Analysis Juliet

Content: This sense of rushing headlong accurately characterizes their love, yet despite her premonition, Juliet is the one who suggests later in the scene that they marry. Act III, Scene 2, marks Juliet's move toward sexual and emotional maturity when she anticipates the consummation of her marriage to Romeo. The lyrical language Juliet employs as she waits impatiently for the night to come underscores the intensity of her feelings: Spread thy close curtain, love-performing night,
That runaway eyes may wink, and Romeo
Leap to these arms untalk'd of and unseen. (III.2.5-7)
The news of Tybalt's death initially produces conflicting feelings for Juliet because she's torn between her love for her husband and the loyalty she feels for Tybalt, her slain cousin: " Shall I speak ill of him that is my husband?" ( III.2.98). Juliet's love for Romeo soon resolves the conflict: My husband lives, that Tybalt would have slain,
And Tybalt's dead, that would have slain my husband. All this is comfort.