Juliet’s Rebellion In the play Romeo and Juliet by Shakespeare the character Juliet rebels against her family, by falling in love with Romeo, her family’s enemy's son. This rebellion causes the arising of many conflicts Juliet has to face and overcome. Rebellion is the definition of resisting authority and control. In the play Juliet starts to have an awakening in her mind that helps her realize she wants to start making her own decision, not based on her parents, not based on the people, but her own. While in the act of rebelling Juliet learns that rebelling against your family and society as a whole comes with consequences and conflicts she has to face. Juliet learns many lessons and has many regrets, which make her come to irrational decisions …show more content…
Even though Romeo’s identity as the Montegue’s son was revealed at the party to Juliet, she still is in love with him and continues to talk to him, rebelling against her parents. This is when the first conflict begins to arise, the play states “ Three words, dear Romeo, and good night indeed. / If that thy bent of love be honorable, / Thy purpose marriage, send me word tomorrow / By one that I'll procure to come to thee / Where and what time thou wilt perform the rite, / And all my fortunes at thy foot I'll lay / And follow thee my lord throughout the world. ( II, ii, 142, 148) In this piece Juliet states that if Romeo truly wishes to marry her she will send a messenger and he is to tell that messenger when they are to be wed. Both Romeo and Juliet are faced with a major conflict because of their rebellion. They have to organize a plan that will get them married without both of their family’s catching on. Juliet deals with this conflict that has arisen from her rebellion by sending out her Nurse to meet with Romeo to set a time and place for the wedding. After knowing the wedding is to take place at Friar Laurence's cell, Juliet tells her mother she is going to the cell to confess, when she is actually going to get married. The consequences of these actions in the long run, results in Romeo and Juliet's deaths. If Juliet never decided to get married without her parents knowing, she wouldn’t have to have gone to such extreme lengths as to fake her own death, resulting in not only her real death but also Romeo’s. From Juliet being able to get away with marrying Romeo in secret she learns the lesson that if both her and Romeo are careful enough with their forbidden love, they won’t get caught. This affected Juliet negatively because as she continued to suppress conflicts coming from her rebellion, but the conflicts arose