Romeo And Juliet Maturity Analysis

A breathtakingly beautiful young girl named Juliet, begins the play as a sheltered, obedient, and naïve child who has thought little to none about falling in love and getting married. Immediately after falling in love hard and fast for Romeo, the son of her family’s great enemy, she grows up rather quickly. Having not quite reached her fourteenth birthday, Juliet is at an age where she verges on immaturity and maturity. Though in this time period many girls her age get married, Juliet doesn’t quite feel ready to take the plunge. This may have to do with the fact that both of her parents are forcing a man named Paris onto her, but in her heart she knows there is someone better out there for her. Then, on night everything changed when Juliet had …show more content…
She knows that her mother would not approve of her marrying Romeo so she chooses not to tell her and she goes through with it anyway because she is now maturing and becoming more independent. When Lady Capulet shares her plans to have someone go to Mantua to poison Romeo so they will have their revenge, Juliet sees this as an opportunity to go and see her dear Romeo. She dishonestly says to her mother, “I never shall be satisfied with Romeo, till I behold him dead (Shakespeare 3.5 93-94).” She is again outsmarting her mother by making her think that she hates Romeo’s guts for killing Tybalt and that she wants to avenge her cousin’s death by killing Romeo herself. Obviously she does not want to kill Romeo, but after hearing what her mother wanted to do to him, she saw an opportunity to save his life and to see him. In saying that she wanted to kill him herself, she hoped that her mother would let her go and Juliet would protect his life and be able to see her one true love again. Juliet is starting to become clever and deceptive just like any ordinary