Romeo & Juliet

Character Essay: Romeo & Juliet

William Shakespeare was a great writer, who wrote many plays. Shakespeare's most famous play Romeo & Juliet is about the tragedy between a pair of star crossed lovers who fall in love in the city of Verona. The children of two feuding families, Romeo of the Montague family and Juliet of the Capulet family will both love and die in the course of this play. Romeo, a fair young, man is very romantic, emotional and rushes into things before thinking about the consequences.

Romeo is very romantic. He is someone who speaks from his heart and is very passionate with his words. The night where he meets Juliet at the party, he goes to her balcony and says "But soft! What light through yonder window breaks? It is the East and Juliet is the sun! Arise fair sun and kill the envious moon"[II:II: 2-4]. He refers to Juliet's beauty and how she lights up the dark night with her beauty. Romeo offers to give up his name for Juliet by saying, "Call me but love, and I'll be new baptized; Henceforth I never will be Romeo" [II:II:50-51]. Romeo loves Juliet so much that he was very upset to be banished from Verona.
he would rather be executed because his life his Juliet and there is no world without her. Romeo says "There is no world without Verona walls, but purgatory, torture, hell itself" [III:III:17-18]. Romeo and Juliet loved each very much. They would give up their lives for each other because all they wanted to do was to be together. When Romeo saw Juliet dead inside the tomb he could not bare living without her so he killed himself to be with her. Evidence of this is shown when Romeo says "Here's to my love! O true apothecary! Thy drugs are quick. Thus with a kiss I die" [V: III:119-120]. All the actions shown by Romeo shows how truly he loves Juliet.

Romeo is an emotional guy. He is first introduced as a sad, melancholic person. His reason for sadness is because of Romeo's first love, Rosaline, who will not return her love and...