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To be frank, this will be the fourth or fifth time I’ve read Romeo and Juliet; and after reading it three times in my freshmen year of High school, I was a bit sick of the play. However, this time around I really tried to wrap my head around the text from a new perspective. This is mostly because I know Stratford is quite good at giving a unique or new performance of these classics, such as their take on Ophelia and Laertes during the Gala last Fall during which Ophelia is treated as an adult. We tend to think of the fourteen year old women in Shakespeare’s plays as children, but actually, they more likely would have been considered adults. Soon, I began to realize that of all the characters in the play, Juliet is the most responsible and proactive, and the tragedy of Romeo and Juliet stems from the men in her life not behaving like they are supposed to. That is to say, the woe of Juliet and her Romeo is born by the misbehavior of the play’s male   characters, such as Romeo and Capulet.

As a fourteen year old noble woman, Juliet’s responsibility was to marry a noble man that would bring prosperity and honor to her house. Moreover, her status in the city of Verona is one of practical royalty, and just like the marriage of a royal princess, her ideal marriage would mean a fortuitous alliance, peace, and please her Prince, who declares his opinion of their feud in act 1, Scene 1, 83-105:

Rebellious subjects, enemies to peace,

Profaners of this neighbor-stainèd steel—

Will they not hear?—What ho! You men, you beasts,

That quench the fire of your pernicious rage

With purple fountains issuing from your veins:

On pain of torture, from those bloody hands

Throw your mistempered weapons to the ground,

And hear the sentence of your movèd prince.

Three civil brawls bred of an airy word

By thee, old Capulet, and Montague,

Have thrice disturbed the quiet of our streets

And made Verona’s ancient citizens

Cast by their grave-beseeming ornaments

To wield old partisans in hands as old,

Cankered with peace, to part your cankered hate.

If ever you disturb our streets again,

Your lives shall pay the forfeit of the peace.

For this time all the rest depart away.

You, Capulet, shall go along with me,

And, Montague, come you this afternoon

To know our farther pleasure in this case,

To old Free-town, our common judgment-place.

Once more, on pain of death, all men depart.

Thus, her marrying Paris would mean a good match of prosperity and honor for her house, but her marriage to Romeo is a good match of peace and alliance for Verona, her prince, as well as a match of prosperity and honor for her house. Therefore, Juliet’s marriage to Romeo is a match that benefits both her house and her city, and is better than the match her father attempted to choose for her. 

It is easy to consider, and it is often portrayed, that Juliet’s active choosing in a husband seems to go against her responsibilities as a noble woman. In our culture, we see often her as a defiant child, and perhaps she has become an example of why should obey your parents and not run off to get married (“Don’t have sex because you will get pregnant and die”- Meangirls). However, Juliet isn’t simply defiant child going against her father’s wishes for the sake of lust and sin. She marries the heir of a house equal to her own, and there is an emphasis on marry here because she doesn’t allow for anything sinful to happen without the consent of the church. She has witnesses who are trusted by her household, as her maid is trusted with her life by her parents. Also, she might be aware that her father will allow her to choose her husband. After all, she discusseeconomics multiplying,Economics,,

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