These violent delights have violent ends. At the start of William Shakespeare's play Romeo and Juliet, both Romeo and Juliet are adolescent lovers, that live in Verona, Italy. There is an ongoing feud between their families, the Capulets and Montagues. Juliet is a Capulet that was due to marry Paris (kinsman to Prince Escalus), but she meets Romeo (a montague) and instantly falls in love with him. As for Romeo he was dreading at his love for Rosaline. Romeo wanted Rosaline to notice him, but she just ignored his stares. When Romeo meets Juliet he forgets his love for Rosaline and falls in love with Juliet. Throughout the play they mature because of eachother, but they have the issue that their families are rivals. In the beginning of the play, both Romeo and Juliet are unripe. Romeo is a petrarchan lover, a man whose feelings of love are not reciprocated by the lady he admires. Romeo grows from being head over heels for Rosaline, which he expresses to everyone to loving and …show more content…
Juliet at first is imitated by the thought of marriage, but when romeo confesses his love for her, she quickly and willingly enters into the marriage with him. When Tybalt is killed and she finds out it was Romeo who killed him, Juliet must decided where her loyalties lie. Juliet then decides to go along with the marriage, which is her first adult decision. Then Romeo is banished and she is being pressured into marrying Paris immediately, she finds that she can no longer lean on her nurse anymore, all alone she must make the decision whether or not to take the potion that Friar Lawrence gave her. This shows that Juliet matured into a adult by showing the reader that she has now made her own choices in life and does not let anyone influence her decisions. She changes in many way throughout the play by the end of the play she is passionate, disobedient, courageous, and