In the story of Romeo and Juliet, I believe Juliet’s character both changed quite a bit and also didn’t change at all. She started out as an innocent young girl without love, pretending to be smart and not a care in the world. She seemed spoiled; you can almost hear that accent in her voice, the famous ‘give me everything I want’ tone. She was too good for all of the guys in town, in fact, she told her mother in person that she hadn’t met anyone she’d want to marry yet. But then, things started to change. She met Romeo, this young boy that was good enough for her. But that relationship had a problem; Romeo’s family hated her family. So then she undertakes a journey that would eventually end her life.

     At first, I noticed Juliet was a bit stuck up and spoiled. I imagined her as one of those girls that go around high school talking with that famous ‘give me everything I want’ tone; those girls that are too good for most everyone. She came from a rich family, so it makes sense that she might be a little spoiled. But although she’s spoiled, she does seem like a smart girl; in the garden scene while Romeo kept on professing his love for her, and asking her to marry him and all that, it was Juliet who pointed out, “hey, we just met a few hours ago. Let’s not do anything crazy.” In this sense, she’s smarter than Romeo, who is simply driven mad by love. By the end of the play, however, she loses that sense of logic completely and becomes as driven mad as Romeo. Throughout the center of the play – I believe Juliet’s character seemed to change but in the end didn’t change at all. See, time is a key player to love and to when it comes to changing a person’s character. Not much time passed throughout the play; therefore, not much of her character could change all that much. Also, she’s young and immature to the world – at least, she is in today’s world. 14 year olds aren’t even close to adults, they still have a lot to learn. Now, there are traumatizing events going on – Tybalt, her cousin, is murdered by her husband. But she takes her husband’s side in this event, seeming to weep over the fact he was exiled more than the fact that her cousin was dead; this show’s she was probably still blinded by love than moved by her cousin’s passing. So her character wasn’t changed all that much.  

     At the end of the play, when she ends up committing suicide, she really hasn’t been changed all that much since the beginning – she’s still stuck up, spoiled, and immature. The only thing that’s changed in the beginning is that she’s fallen in love with Romeo; and personally, I believe it couldn’t have been love between the two of them. Simply a childhood crush mistaken for love by their own feelings. There wasn’t enough time for it to become love. So in the end, I believe Juliet really hasn’t changed. She’s still the same; a spoiled and immature little girl. She’s just let those character traits become out of control, and she ends up killing herself for it. She’s blinded by the ‘love’ she felt for Romeo, and it escalates out of control.