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How Did Romeo And Juliet Develop

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Taylor Chapman Miss Koski English 9 Summer School 26 June 2024 Title In the Renaissance period, women at a young age had to be portrayed as sophisticated and well put together, to attract a husband. During this period, women had to look, act, and speak in a certain way. In contrast, men during the period didn't have high standards to perform. In Romeo and Juliet, William Shakespeare creates Juliet to fit the high standard of maturity during the period whilst adding in some teenage sass. In Romeo and Juliet, Juliet is portrayed as a strong-minded girl who always thinks before acting, which makes her more mature than Romeo. Juliet is the most mature because of her reaction to Romeo hiding in the bushes to see her. Juliet warns of what might happen …show more content…

Because Juliet was making a plan with Friar Laurence to get out of the marriage with Paris, it shows that she wants to take precautions rather than coming up with a plan on the spot and causing casualties. The plan was deliberate and well executed on Juliet's part. The plan as the Friar said“ Go home, be merry, give consent/ To marry Paris. Wednesday is tomorrow./Tomorrow night look that thou lie alone;/Let not the nurse lie with thee in thy chamber./Take thou this vial, being then in bed,/And this distilling liquor drink thou off.” (lV, i, 89-94) Then, “Shall, stiff and stark and cold, appear like death./And in this borrowed likeness of shrunk death/Thou shalt continue two and forty hours,/And then awake as from a pleasant sleep.” (lV, The whole plan was deliberately planned and intelligent. It was all thanks to Juliet and Friar Laurence that Romeo and Juliet had a chance to live a happy life together. For further explanation, Juliet and Friar Laurence plan to accept Paris’s wedding proposal and take the vile in secret to which Juliet will fall into a deep sleep, but when Paris tries to wake her in the morning to find her supposedly dead, her parents will bury her in the capsule crypt, where the Friar will break in at night with Romeo and wake her and they run away

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