Juliet is the daughter of the Capulets, a powerful and stubborn family of the period; she is not yet fourteen and has been raised in isolation. While growing up under her father’s protection and her nurse’s affection, a rebellion ignites when the danger of marrying Paris appears on the horizon. She becomes infinitely attached to Romeo, whom she sees at the Capulet ball. The initial image of a shy, quiet, and rule-bound young girl quickly shatters through her love, evolving into an independent woman capable of making highly rational, provocative decisions. As her husband Romeo is exiled and her cousin Tybalt has died at her husband's hands, she struggles with great grief. She ostensibly defies her family, who force her to marry Paris, but seeks refuge with the Friar, accepting a death-like sleeping potion. Because of the terrible tragic failure of the letter, she awakens to find her husband's corpse and, without the slightest hesitation, crowns her loyalty with Romeo’s dagger, killing herself.
An only child raised by a playful and talkative nurse, with distant but strictly obedient ties to her family. She has almost no connection with men, and her knowledge of love is limited.
She possesses an extremely beautiful, doll-like elegance; as Romeo says, she is 'like a rich jewel in an Ethiope’s ear' and a white dove, shining as a fresh, untainted symbol of virginity.
Dadı
A practical mother figure who betrayed her.
Paris
A disgusting and cold wall before her love, the man she must escape.
Romeo
The perfect man upon whom she built her destiny, and her only love.
Capulet
A loveless father figure who prepares her for death with his strict patriarchal pressure.