Romeo & Juliet Characters
Romeo - answerMontague; first loves Rosaline, then sees Juliet at a party and falls in love;
secretly marries Juliet; kills Tybalt; is banished to Mantua; returns to see Juliet's dead body and
kills himself with poison (dramatic and romantic)
Juliet - answerCapulet; fa...
Romeo - answer✔✔Montague; first loves Rosaline, then sees Juliet at a party and falls in love;
secretly marries Juliet; kills Tybalt; is banished to Mantua; returns to see Juliet's dead body and
kills himself with poison (dramatic and romantic)
Juliet - answer✔✔Capulet; falls in love with Romeo at her party; marries Romeo secretly; set to
marry Paris but takes potion to sleep and look dead; wakes to Romeo's dead body and kills self
with a knife (more sensible than Romeo, 13 years old)
Lord Montague - answer✔✔Montague; Romeo's father; enemy of the Capulets
Lady Montague - answer✔✔Montague; Romeo's mother; dies of grief when Romeo is banished
to Mantua
Lord Capulet - answer✔✔Capulet; Juliet's father; enemy of the Montagues; wants Juliet to marry
Paris and gets upset when she refuses; sets up wedding the next day when Juliet finally agrees
(short temper)
Lady Capulet - answer✔✔Capulet; Juliet's mother (not especially motherly to Juliet)
Paris - answer✔✔Capulet side; Kinsman to Prince; wants to marry Juliet; talks to Lord Capulet
about setting up a wedding; devastated when Juliet dies; is unintentionally killed by Romeo but
later carried into Juliet's tomb when Romeo realizes his relationship to her (legitimately loves
Juliet)
Friar Laurence - answer✔✔Neutral; Romeo's most trusted adviser; priest that marries Romeo
and Juliet; wants the two sides to just get along
Nurse - answer✔✔Capulet; Juliet's most trusted adviser; tells Juliet Romeo's identity and vice
versa; helps Juliet communicate with Romeo secretly and cover for her when she gets married;
advises Juliet to marry Paris once Romeo is banished; discovers Juliet's "dead" body the morning
after she takes the potion (basically raised Juliet and acts as her mother, FOIL to Juliet)
Mercutio - answer✔✔Montague side; Kinsman to Prince; Romeo's best friend; killed by Tybalt
and causes Romeo to fight Tybalt (troublemaker and likes to fight, FOIL to Romeo)
Benvolio - answer✔✔Montague; Romeo's friend and cousin; tries to stop the fighting between
Romeo, Mercutio, and Tybalt
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