Romeo and Juliet!

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Today we are going to investigate a little bit about the main characters of the Shakespeare's story of Romeo and Juliet!

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• Romeo Montague: The son and heir of Montague and Lady Montague. A young man of about sixteen, Romeo is handsome, intelligent, and sensitive. Though impulsive and immature, his idealism and passion make him an extremely likable character. He lives in the middle of a violent feud between his family and the Capulets, but he is not at all interested in violence. His only interest is love. At the beginning of the play he is madly in love with a woman named Rosaline, but the instant he lays eyes on Juliet, he falls in love with her and forgets Rosaline. He secretly marries Juliet, the daughter of his father’s worst enemy; he kills Tybalt; and he prefers to die than live without Juliet. Romeo is also an affectionate and devoted friend to his relative Benvolio, Mercutio, and Friar Lawrence.

• Juliet Capulet: The daughter of Capulet and Lady Capulet. A beautiful thirteen-year-old girl, Juliet begins the play as a naïve child who has thought little about love and marriage, but she grows up quickly upon falling in love with Romeo, the son of her family’s great enemy. Because she is a girl in an aristocratic family, she has not freedom to move by the city. Nevertheless, she shows amazing courage in trusting her entire life and future to Romeo, even refusing to believe the worst reports about him after he gets involved in a fight with her cousin. Juliet’s closest friend and confidant is her nurse.

• Friar Lawrence: A Franciscan friar, friend to both Romeo and Juliet. Kind,  and always ready with a plan, Friar Lawrence secretly marries the  lovers in hopes that the union might  bring peace to Verona. 

• Mercutio:  Romeo’s best friend.  He finds Romeo’s  ideas about love boring, and tries to convince Romeo to view love as something more simple.

• Tybalt: Juliet’s cousin on her mother’s side. Vain, fashionable...he becomes aggressive, violent, when he feels his pride has been injured. He hates Montagues.

• Paris: A rich who has an arranged marriage with Juliet. Paris has no reason to believe that Juliet doesn't love him and isn't excited about their marriage.  

Here you have more information: 

http://www.sparknotes.com/shakespeare/romeojuliet/characters.html

http://www.shmoop.com/romeo-and-juliet/characters.html