Wednesday 24 December 2014

In terms of transformation, what new characteristics does Juliet obtain when Nurse tells her of Tybalt's death in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet?

One new
characteristic we seegain in Act 3, Scene 2, in which Nurse informs her of 's death, is the
ability to doubt and distrust.

Juliet's first response is to feel that she
has been deceived by. We see this in her speech beginning at line 76, in which she calls Romeo a
series of contrasting images, such as "beautiful tyrant" and "fiend
angelical." All of these oxymorons serve to question Romeo's character, arguing that he is
not as wonderful as she first saw him to be. She even ends this speech with, "O, that
deceit should dwell /...








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