... to be under the influence of the men around her. Juliet is a unique character, for someone of her time, as she does not follow the above criteria. Instead she has the strength to be self-willed and to act differently to the other females around her; consequently it is because of this that the play really ... creates its shape. It is unknown why Juliet acts as she does, is seems likely that her parents were never really ... actually means that she still loves Romeo "Indeed I never shall be satisfied With Romeo, till I behold him -dead- Is my poor heart for a kinsman vexed" Juliet's moth...

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... Elizabethan attitude and beliefs towards fate. Another example of fate in action during the play is in Act 5 Scene 1 where Romeo says "I dreamt my lady found me dead"- this is another premonition of Romeo's saying that he will be found dead by his Lady- Juliet. This is once again linked to the ... found dead by his Lady then the audience is led to assume that that is what will happen. There are characters in the tragedy of Romeo and Juliet who influence Romeos behaviour directly, Mercutio for example. Mercutio defends Romeo's honour and fights Tybalt because Romeo will not. When Mercutio...

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... behaviour towards everyone else. She is just a nave, innocent young girl who doesn't really understand how to help her lover. "If she had been an Imogen, a Cordelia, even a Porita or a Juliet, the story must have taken another shape. Hamlet would either have been stimulated to do his duty, or (which is more likely) he would have gone mad, or (which is ... her hasty remarriage has had on her son. But as Hamlet continues to draw her attention to the antipathy of her remarriage, she gradually comes under his spell and begins to feel guilty for the way she has acted. Even though the appeara...

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