Juliet is a fourteen-year-old youth who is born into the Capulet family, enemies of the Montagues, in the city of Verona. She is seen to be close to the Nurse to an extent that she is more close to the Nurse than her own biological mother, but later feels alone when the Nurse betrays her about how Romeo’s banishment make Romeo and “useless” man and that Juliet should marry Paris.
In the play, Juliet experiences her first ever love for someone. Which turns out that the lucky man is Romeo. Where both love passionately but both find it hard to be together because they are on opposing sides.
Juliet is seen to be quite close with her cousin Tybalt, but cries at Romeo’s exile over Tybalt’s death. She is also close to her parents but only before she was abused by her parents when she told them that she didn’t want to marry Paris and like another man, Romeo.
Juliet also has the tendency to talk in soliloquies about her love with Romeo or other issues revolving around her. The soliloquies tend to show what Juliet’s thought are.
Like Romeo, William Shakespeare has to appeal to all the classes in English Hierarchy and in the play Romeo and Juliet, Juliet represents the higher, noble class of the Hierarchy.
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