Idealistic. She blindly accepts what Romeo says, because she wants it to work out. She trusts that the Father's plan to fake her death will work, and that Romeo will be there waiting for her when she wakes up. She tends to only see the good side of the situation, and then is devastated when it doesn't work out perfectly as she believed it should.
Naive would be an apt description. She has no experience whatsoever with love or men in general, yet she immediately believes Romeo's declarations of love and honor. Yeah, he does intend to marry her, but how exactly can she trust that? She rushes into this relationship (and marriage), never questioning that maybe this might be a bad idea. If I could get another word, I would definitely say idiotic.
Determined. She is determined to marry Romeo in spite of her families' issues with his. This is even more true as other events occur...Mercutio and Tybalt die, Romeo is banished, Paris is chosen as Juliet's husband. Then she, the nurse, and the Friar hatch a plan to get the two of them together.
The one word that would best describe Juliet would be impetuous. Impetuous, if you don’t know, means that she does things without thinking and rushes too quickly into situations and acts. This can be used to describe her from the very beginning of Act 2 when she tells Romeo that if he truly loves her than he must send word to her Nurse the next day of their marriage arrangements through the very end of the play when she rushes in to taking the potion made by Friar Lawrence. If Juliet had not been impetuous, the entire play would have taken a different turn. This character, just as Romeo, did not think about any of the actions that she took throughout the play, and therefore, this is not only the best word to describe her, but it is also her character flaw or tragic flaw.
Romeo and Juliet- Juliet's emotionsIf you could use one word to describe Juliet's emotions, what would it be and why?
Capricious--an adjective often applied to many a female character. When Juliet first learns that Romeo is a Montague, for instance, she certainly senses danger,
Prodigious birth of love it is to me,
That I must love a loathed enemy.
And, she bemoans that Romeo's name is Montague in the balcony of the next act; further, she cautions Romeo against his impetuous declaration of passion that same night, warning that it is "too rash, too unadvised, too sudden," yet before he departs she declares her love--"I will not fail...I love thy company" and she marries Romeo the next day.
Later, in Act IV, she rushes to Friar Laurence in her quandary of how to avoid marriage to Paris because she is, unbeknowst to her parents, already married. When the priest gives her the vial to drink, she is conflicting about doing so out of fear of not awakening from it, yet she capriciously downs it, anyway. Then, in Act V when she discovers that Romeo has killed himself for...
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her, she kisses Romeo's lips, hoping that some poison "yet doth hang on them" so she can die "with a restorative."
Romeo and Juliet- Juliet's emotionsIf you could use one word to describe Juliet's emotions, what would it be and why?
I would use the word trapped. I know it sounds like a strange word to describe emotions, but I think Juliet is trapped by her emotions. She is not able to think clearly. If she was, she would realize she does not need to marry Romeo instantly, and she would come up with a better solution than faking her death when her parents want her to marry Paris.
Romeo and Juliet- Juliet's emotionsIf you could use one word to describe Juliet's emotions, what would it be and why?
Fervent might be a word I'd use to describe Juliet's emotions. Her feelings are at a "rolling boil", so to speak. She is almost ill with passion. This is one way to see her character. The recklessness plans that she agrees to demonstrate just how fervent (and ardent) her feelings are.
Romeo and Juliet- Juliet's emotionsIf you could use one word to describe Juliet's emotions, what would it be and why?
I would use the word aggressive. Juliet is aggressive because she knows what she wants (Romeo) and will stop at nothing to insure he has him (in life or death). She is so determined to be with him that she chooses to end her own life if she has to live without him.