Romeo

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Romeo

• Is a Montague
• 16 years old
• Cute, smart, sensitive
• Impulsive and immature
• He doesnt care about the feud
• Romantic heart

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Lady Montague

• Romeos Mom
• Dies of grief after Romeos death

3
Lord Montague

• Romeos dad
• Worries about Romeos sadness
• Patriarch (head man) of the Montagues

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Balthasar

• Romeos servant
• He goes to tell Romeo that Juliet is dead (he
  doesnt know that it is a fake death)

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Abraham

• Montagues servant
• Fights Sampson and Gregory in the beginning

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Benvolio

• Romeos cousin friend
• Tries to break-up fights. Keep the peace.
• Counsels Romeo about love and make him feel
  better.

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Mercutio

• Related to the prince
• Good friends W/ Romeo
• Bad temper
• Doesnt like emotional people
• Believes love is about the physical contact and
  nothing else.

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Juliet

• Is a capulet, 13 yrs old
• Begins as a naïve child,
• She doesnt have as much freedom as Romeo because
  she is a girl
• She sneaks around to see Romeo
• She totally trusts Romeo
• Juliet is very close with the nurse.

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Lord Capulet

• Juliets dad
• He truly loves Juliet, but does not know her
  feelings and dreams
• Bad temper when things dont go his way
• He commands respect and propriety
• Patriarch of the Capulets

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Lady Capulet

• Juliets mom
• Ineffectual mother- relies on the nurse to
  mother Juliet
• She married young, had Juliet around age 14, and
  is eager for her to marry Paris

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Nurse

• Has cared for Juliet since she was born
• Vulgar, long-winded, loyal and a confidante to
  Juliet
• At end though, they have a falling-out over Romeo

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Gregory Sampson

• Servants to the Capulets
• Start a fight with Montagues at the beginning of
  the play

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Tybalt

• Juliets cousin
• Vain, fashionable, very into proper etiquette,
  prideful
• He is well-trained in sword fighting and someone
  to fear
• He loathes Montagues

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Prince Escalus

• Prince of Verona
• He is concerned with maintaining public peace
• Related to Mercutio and Paris

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Paris

• Related to the prince
• Preferred by the Capulets to marry Juliet
• He treats Juliet inappropriately after Capulet
  says he can marry her.

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Rosaline

• The woman who Romeo is obsessed with at the
  beginning of the play, whos rejected Romeo.

17
The Apothecary

• Like a pharmacist
• He sells the poison to Romeo.
• Values money more than morals (due to his own
  poverty)

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Friar Lawrence

• Friend to Romeo and Juliet
• Kind, civic-minded
• Secretly marries Romeo and Juliet in hopes that
  their marriage will end the feud.
• He is a Catholic holy man and also familiar with
  potions and herbs.

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Friar John

• A Catholic holy man asked to tell Romeo about
  Juliet's false death.
• He is held up in a quarantined house and so
  never gets the message to Romeo.