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.
