What character trait describes Juliet Capulet in Romeo and Juliet?

One of Juliet's primary traits is her ever-present impatience. In part, perhaps, because of her age, Juliet seems incapable of allowing events to develop at their own pace and, instead, consistently tries to force various issues throughout the play.

For example, in Act IV, scene i, when Juliet discusses Romeo's banishment with Friar Lawrence, she states:

Give me some present counsel, or, behold,
'Twixt my extremes and me this bloody knife
Shall play the umpire, arbitrating that
Which the commission of thy years and art
Could to no issue of true honour bring.
Be not so long to speak; I long to die,

We see here Juliet's impatience and her eagerness to take matters not only into her own hands but also to extremes.

In fact, Juliet comments on her own impatience during her soliloquy in Act III, scene ii:

O, I have bought the mansion of a love,
But not possess'd it, and, though I am sold,
Not yet enjoy'd: so tedious is this day
As is the night before some festival
To an impatient child that hath new robes
And may not wear them.

What character trait describes Juliet Capulet in Romeo and Juliet?

A dominant character trait of Juliet, which is visible in Acts 1 through 3, is that she is quick to recognize and adapt to new circumstances and situations. At the best of times, this is resourcefulness. At the worst of times, this is impetuousness.

The first time this is seen is at the party following her exchange with her mother. She tells her mother that she will "do her will" and agrees to meet Paris and consider his proposal of marriage, even promising to govern her acquaintance of him by her mother's wishes. At the party, things change.

Juliet's age is identified as being just under fourteen and she deports herself with decorum and dignity, though we also know that her meeting with Paris will be her first association with courtship. Then she encounters Romeo.

ROMEO: [To JULIET] If I profane with my unworthiest hand
This holy shrine, the gentle fine is this:
My lips, two blushing pilgrims, ready stand
To smooth that rough touch with a tender kiss.

She quickly recognizes a new situation and readily adapts to it with resourcefulness by offering a little encouraging flirtation of her own, while keeping pace with Romeo's allusions to Christian pilgrims:

JULIET: Good pilgrim, you do wrong your hand too much,
Which mannerly devotion shows in this;
For saints have hands that pilgrims' hands do touch,
And palm to palm is holy palmers' kiss.

Later, when Romeo breaches the orchard wall and they romance each other under the light of the changeful orb, the moon, "the inconstant moon, / That monthly changes in her circled orb," Juliet recognizes another new situation and quickly, though impetuously, adapts to it by saying that if Romeo has an honorable purpose to his love and intends marriage between them, she will meet him on the morrow to perform the rite of marriage:

JULIET: If that thy bent of love be honourable,
Thy purpose marriage, send me word to-morrow,
By one that I'll procure to come to thee,
Where and what time thou wilt perform the rite;

These are but two of the instances in which Juliet meets and recognizes a new situation to which she quickly adapts. With these two examples in hand, you'll be able to identify others and determine which are resourceful and which are impetuous.

What character trait describes Juliet Capulet in Romeo and Juliet?

To me, Juliet's major character trait is that she's fourteen.  I know, that's not a character trait, but it leads to one.  I think her major character trait is that she is overdramatic and gets too caught up in her new love.  I think that if either she or Romeo had been a bit more mature, things could have turned out a lot better.  Here are a couple of quotes that could support this:

The first is from Act I, Scene 5.  Romeo has just left and Juliet is head over heels.  She says:

Go ask his name: if he be married.
My grave is like to be my wedding bed.

Sounds dramatic, huh?  If he's married, I'm totally going to die, OMG!!

Another one could be from Act II, Scene 5.  She's sent the nurse off to talk to Romeo.  She's back and she's all complaining that she's tired and sore.  But Juliet can't wait.  She says, for example

I' faith, I am sorry that thou art not well.
Sweet, sweet, sweet nurse, tell me, what says my love?

Yeah, yeah, I know you're tired.  So what did Romeo say??

What are three traits of Juliet from Romeo and Juliet?

Juliet is dutiful--she runs to her mother when called on.  She says, "Madam, I am here, / What is your will?"  This shows her will to do what her mother wants and needs.

Another trait of Juliet's is that she is insightful.  She is able to see past the names and the feuds that occur between the two families.  She says that calling a rose by "any other word would smell as sweet" referring to his family's name.

The last trait is the most obvious.  She is loyal to her husband.  She is willing to die if he dies.  When she finds him dead after taking the poison, she takes her own life very quickly.  She will not endure without him.  She tells the dagger that she plunges into herself to "rust and let [her] die." 

What are examples of Juliet's personality traits in Romeo and Juliet?

Here goes:

Cooperative- Juliet agrees to consider Parris as a potential suitor at her father's party, even though she says she's not particularly ready to consider marriage. 

Affectionate - The person Juliet is most affectionate with is the Nurse. They apparently tease one another, and Juliet literally hugs her when she comes back from talking to Romeo. 

Sincere - When she tells her father she has not even thought of marriage, Juliet exhibits sincerity. 

Mature - She is immature and impulsive most of the time after she meets Romeo, so any maturity is displayed before that.  (See Sincere and Cooperative.) A case may be made that after she gets the potion from the Friar and becomes an obedient daughter (knowing she's not going to have to actually marry Parris) she is showing some maturity. When Juliet does not, for once, share her plan with the Nurse, she exhibits mature behavior.

Courageous - When Juliet takes the Friar's potion, she show courage--though she's young and may not even recognize the dangers inherent in such an implausible plan.  Certainly when she buries Romeo's dagger in her breast she shows extraordinary courage and conviction. 

Heroic - See Courageous.

Decisive - Choosing to marry Romeo after just a few hours' acquaintance shows decisiveness, as does her determination to carry out the Friar's plan. 

Devoted - Juliet is clearly devoted to the Nurse, her father, and Romeo--though she breaks faith with all but Romeo throughout the course of the play.

Loyal - She is loyal to both her beloved cousin Tybalt and her husband Romeo, though her loyalties are tested when one is killed by the other.

Faithful - See Loyal.

Passive - Agreeing to consider a man she hasn't even met as a husband is the epitome of passive.

What characteristic describes Juliet from Romeo and Juliet?

Juliet spends much of her time in Romeo and Juliet in desperation; therefore, that is the characteristic that I choose to focus on for my answer.  In truth, Juliet becomes desperate even before there is truly anything wrong.  She even hints at this characteristics while waiting from news of Romeo from her nurse:

The clock struck nine when I did send the nurse; / Perchance she cannot meet him.  That's not so. / O, she is lame! (2.5.2-4)

Juliet is already desperate:  desperate to hear from her lover.  Her desperation gets worse of course with her words to Friar Laurence as her situation declines:

Be not so long to speak.  I long to die / If what thou speakst speak not of remedy. (4.1.68-69)

Juliet's lover has killed her cousin and has been banished from Verona.  Juliet is betrothed to Paris, whom she does not love.  Desperation ensues.  (The sad thing is that Friar Laurence's suggestion is to give Juliet drugs that make her look dead!)

Of course, Juliet's biggest bout of desperation is at the end of the play:

What's here?  A cup closed in my true love's hand? / Poison, I see hath been his timeless end. / O churl! drunk all, and left no friendly drop / To help me after? I will kiss thy lips, / Haply some poison yet doth hang on them / To make me die with a restorative. /Thy lips are warm! / . . . / Yea, noise? Then I'll be brief.  O happy dagger! / This is thy sheath; there rest, and let me die. (5.3.168-174)

There is no greater act of desperation than to take ones own life.  Thus, the tragedy of Romeo and Juliet lives on.

What are Juliet Capulet's character traits in Romeo and Juliet?

One of Juliet's most obvious character traits is courage. For a girl of only 13 she displays a rare ability to be brave in the face of overwhelming obstacles. Despite the fact she knows her family will object, she is courageous enough to pursue what she truly wants. She falls madly in love with Romeo and will not be dissuaded from this love by the reality of the feud. Her real courage, however, comes later and she displays it in three different scenes.

In Act III, Scene 5 Juliet has the courage to stand up to her father and refuse the marriage pact with Count Paris. She overcomes her father's angry onslaught and displays fearlessness in the face of a difficult dilemma. She shows tenacious loyalty toward Romeo even after the Nurse advises her to forget him and marry the Count.

In Act IV, Scene 1 she is determined to do whatever it takes to stay loyal to Romeo, even if it involves some frightening or dangerous task. She tells Friar Lawrence,

O, bid me leap, rather than marry Paris,
From off the battlements of any tower,
Or walk in thievish ways, or bid me lurk
Where serpents are. Chain me with roaring bears,
Or hide me nightly in a charnel house,
O’ercovered quite with dead men’s rattling bones,
With reeky shanks and yellow chapless skulls.

What are Juliet Capulet's character traits in Romeo and Juliet?

Juliet Capulet is very young. Marriage and love are not yet on her mind. When her mother suggests marrying, Juliet replies, “It is an honour that I dream not of.” This changes when she meets Romeo the Montague. He falls in love with her at first sight, and the attraction is mutual. Though youthful, Juliet is not shy. She banters with Romeo about hands and lips upon their first meeting. Her feelings for him are so intense, she says, that if he is married, “My grave is like to be my wedding bed.” She is also ready to abandon her family identity: “if thou wilt not, be but sworn my love, / And I'll no longer be a Capulet.”

Juliet also expresses wisdom by noting how arbitrary the difference between Capulets and Montagues is: “'Tis but thy name that is my enemy.” She is also somewhat wary of “lovers' perjuries” and questions Romeo’s sincerity, telling him not to swear unless “by thy gracious self.” Juliet worries that their love is “too rash, too unadvised, too sudden.” However, she can be very impatient, growing angry at the nurse for taking so long to return with news from Romeo and comparing herself to “an impatient child that hath new robes / And may not wear them.”

Juliet has a dark side as well. When Romeo kills Tybalt, she refers to Romeo as, “O serpent heart, hid with a flowering face!” She quickly repents her condemnation and mourns both Tybalt’s death and Romeo’s banishment. In fact, she wishes to kill herself then and there, so “death, not Romeo, take my maidenhead!” In her overwhelming passion, she eventually does commit suicide, wasting no time once discovering Romeo’s dagger.

Ultimately, Juliet is a complicated character with a variety of qualities. She is young, emotional, and poetic but also witty, decisive, and even wise.

What are three character traits of Juliet in Romeo and Juliet by Shakespeare?

First, Juliet is rebellious. We have the obvious example of her marriage without the consent of her parents. It's clear that to her father, Juliet's value is as an asset to cement an alliance through marriage. By marrying Romeo, Juliet defies her father's plans for the sake of her own desires. Further, by marrying the son of her father's enemy, Juliet exposes her family to potential dishonor and ridicule. Thus, she's taking a considerable risk. Her father would disown her if he knew she married Romeo. As is, he threatens to disown her when she rejects the prospect of marrying Paris. It is in this scene, act 3, scene 5 (lines 147–152), when we see Juliet's rebelliousness come to the fore.

Capulet: Is she not proud? Doth she not count her blest,
Unworthy as she is, that we have wrought
So worth a gentleman to be her pride?

Juliet: Not proud you have, but thankful that you have.
Proud can I never be of what I hate...

Teenagers talk back, I know. But in the context of Juliet's position as the daughter of an Italian nobleman during the Middle Ages, to so brazenly defy her father's wishes and to spurn the marriage he has arranged is an extreme act of rebellion. Juliet's family and Verona society expect her to be dutiful, modest, virtuous, and, most of all, silent.

Second, when she chooses to speak, Juliet is candid with her feelings. On numerous occasions, Juliet expresses her feelings for Romeo plainly and without exaggeration. During the balcony scene, Juliet declares her love for Romeo without knowing he is there, but she doesn't retract it once he speaks out.

Juliet: In truth, fair Montague, I am too fond
And therefore thou mayst think my behavior light;
But trust me, gentleman, I'll prove more true
Than those that have more cunning to be strange. (Act 2, scene 2, lines 102–105)

Third, Juliet is impatient. We can attribute this early on to the fact that she is young and sheltered, but as the play goes on, Shakespeare gives the impression that it's part of her character—a heroic flaw that contributes directly to her death. She is the first to suggest marriage and the first to contemplate suicide. Her quick marriage to Romeo is not the best evidence, since Romeo is also in a rush and the two adults in the know, Friar Laurence and the Nurse, fail to prevail on the young lovers to be more careful.

Rather, Juliet's impatience is best revealed in two other scenes. First, her banter with the nurse in act 2, scene 5, lines 31–32: "How art thou out of breath when thou hast breath / To tell me thou are out of breath?" After the nurse comes back from meeting with Romeo to arrange the secret wedding, Juliet literally will not let the nurse catch her breath after walking through the city, so impatient is she to hear about Romeo.

Second, we see Juliet's rashness raised to a fever pitch when she comes to the priest looking to prevent her marriage to Paris in act 4, scene 1, line 67: "Be not so long to speak, I long to die!" Juliet is threatening suicide in front of the priest unless he finds a way to prevent her marriage to Paris. She doesn't balk at the rather far-fetched and drastic scheme of faking her own death, but instead clutches at the sleeping potion like a child trying to snatch away a toy (line 122): Give me, give me! O tell me not of fear!

What are three character traits of Juliet in Romeo and Juliet by Shakespeare?

While Juliet possesses the tragic impulsiveness of Romeo in Shakespeare’s play, she has the sterling traits of caution and loyalty. In addition, she is of a passionate nature, which while good, does at times work to her detriment.

CAUTIOUS
In the first act when her Lady Capulet asks Juliet to consider Paris as a husband, Juliet wisely exerts, caution; she merely promises to look at the man:

I'll look to like, if looking liking move;
But no more deep will I endart mine eye
Than your consent gives strength to make it fly.

She also urges Romeo to not to swear his love by something so fickle as the moon:

O, swear not by the moon, the inconstant moon,
That monthly changes in her circled orb,
Lest that thy love prove likewise variable. (2.2.113-115)

Do not swear at all;
Or if thou wilt, swear by thy gracious self,
Which is the god of my idolatry,
And I'll believe thee.  (2.2.118-120

Then, in last scene of this act, Juliet asks Romeo not to kiss her, but exert more restraint and merely touch hands; she is seemingly wary of rushing into a relationship with him:

Good pilgrim, you do wrong your hand too much,
Which mannerly devotion shows in this;
For saints have hands that pilgrims’ hands do touch,
And palm to palm is holy palmers’ kiss. (105)

LOYALTY
After the Nurse returns from the streets of Verona where she has learned of the death of Tybalt, she cries out both Tybalt’s and Romeo’s names, confusing Juliet. Finally when Juliet learns the truth, she chides the Nurse for saying “Shame come to Romeo":

Blister'd be thy tongue (95)
For such a wish! He was not born to shame.
Upon his brow shame is asham'd to sit;
For 'tis a throne where honour may be crown'd
Sole monarch of the universal earth.
O, what a beast was I to chide at him! (100)

When Lady Capulet calls Romeo a villain, Juliet says in an aside,

Villain and he be many miles asunder.
God pardon him! I do, with all my heart;
And yet no man like he doth grieve my heart.  (3.2.84-86)

Finally in this scene, the Nurse urges Juliet to marry Paris even though she knows that Juliet is already married. Juliet retorts,

Ancient damnation! O most wicked fiend!
Is it more sin to wish me thus forsworn,
Or to dispraise my lord with that same tongue
Which she hath prais'd him with above compare
So many thousand times? Go, counsellor!
Thou and my bosom henceforth shall be twain.
I'll to the friar to know his remedy.
If all else fail, myself have power to die. (3.5.246-253)

PASSIONATE
Juliet displays her passionate nature in these passages:

My bounty is as boundless as the sea,
My love as deep; the more I give to thee,
The more I have, for both are infinite.
I hear some noise within. Dear love, adieu!  (2.2.139-142)

O, bid me leap, rather than marry Paris,
From off the battlements of yonder tower,
Or walk in thievish ways, or bid me lurk
Where serpents are; chain me with roaring bears,
Or shut me nightly in a charnel house,
O'ercover'd quite with dead men's rattling bones,
With reeky shanks and yellow chapless skulls;
Or bid me go into a new-made grave (85)
And hide me with a dead man in his shroud —
Things that, to hear them told, have made me tremble —
And I will do it without fear or doubt,
To live an unstain'd wife to my sweet love.   (4.1.78-89)

What are three character traits of Juliet in Romeo and Juliet by Shakespeare?

Juliet demonstrates many character and personality traits throughout Romeo and Juliet. When we first meet her, Juliet is a docile, dutiful child, but upon meeting Romeo, her life is redefined. She realizes deep love for Romeo in a short time and speaks to him with great naturalness, insight and understanding about love. Juliet also becomes suddenly resourceful and secretive and develops the ability to honestly expresses herself, giving her a quite practical side in contrast to Romeo. She is concerned about Romeo's safety, yet she is practical as demonstrated in the planning of the wedding, instructing Romeo to send her word about where and when the event will take place (II.ii.144-46). Juliet demonstrates herself to be focused on her husband and her love for him and willing to do whatever it takes for the two of them to be together. She is passionate, as is demonstrated in her impatience for her wedding night. Juliet’s most obvious character trait is her selfless dedication to her husband to the point that she chooses death rather than living in a world without Romeo.

What are three character traits of Juliet in Romeo and Juliet by Shakespeare?

Shakespeare's Juliet is a multi-faceted and interesting character. Though she is young, she brings significant depth to The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet. Here are some examples of her character traits and quotes that support them:

Juliet is a strong-minded young woman, and when she makes up her mind about something, she expresses herself with determination. This quote from Act 3, scene 5 is complete with exclamatory punctuation to enhance the forcefulness of her tone as Juliet communicates her refusal to marry Paris now that she loves Romeo:

He shall not make me there a joyful bride!

Juliet is also a thoughtful and cautious person, unlike her beloved, the rash and impulsive Romeo. She expresses her careful thinking in Act 2, scene 2, when she uses lightning as a metaphor for a too-quick decision:

Although I joy in thee,
I have no joy of this contract tonight.
It is too rash, too unadvised, too sudden,
Too like the lightning, which doth cease to be
Ere one can say 'It lightens.'

Juliet is also passionate, as her romantic words in Act 3, scene 2 reveal. She employs an apostrophe to talk directly to the night about her anticipation of spending time with Romeo. The poetic quality of her language enhances the passionate message of her words:

Spread thy close curtain, love-performing night,
That runaway's eyes may wink and Romeo
Leap to these arms, untalked of and unseen.

What are three character traits of Juliet in Romeo and Juliet by Shakespeare?

In Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, there are many traits one could assign to Juliet. The three I would choose are loyalty, a willingness to take risks, and complete love and devotion.

We see Juliet practicing loyalty when she defends Romeo against blame for Tybalt's death, when Romeo has killed Tybalt because he murdered Mercutio.

JUL:

Shall I speak ill of him that is my husband?

Ah, poor my lord, what tongue shall smooth thy name

When I, thy three-hours’ wife, have mangled it?

But wherefore, villain, didst thou kill my cousin?(105)

That villain cousin would have kill'd my husband. (III.ii.102-106)

When Juliet learns that she will be forced to marry Paris, and because she is already married—and loves another—Juliet goes to the Friar to see if he can help. He has a potion that will make her look dead so that she could not marry Paris. He asks if she is willing to try it; it will seem like death, but he expects she would try to kill herself anyway rather than marry Paris, and so this plan should not seem too dangerous to her.

FRIAR:

Hold, daughter. I do spy a kind of hope,

Which craves as desperate an execution

As that is desperate which we would prevent.

If, rather than to marry County Paris,

Thou hast the strength of will to slay thyself,

Then is it likely thou wilt undertake

A thing like death to chide away this shame,

That cop’st with death himself to scape from it;

And, if thou dar'st, I'll give thee remedy. (IV.i.69-77)

Juliet answers that she would jump off the battlements, place herself in the company of snakes, or be locked up in a place with dead bodies every night (foreshadowing), rather than marry Paris. She would lie in a grave, covered with a corpse's shroud, or anything that might otherwise make her tremble; anything she will do without fear for the love she bears Romeo.

JULIET:

…tell me to get into a new-made grave,

And hide myself with a dead man in his shroud,

Things that, when I heard about them, made me tremble,

And I will do it without fear or doubt,

To live an pure wife to my sweet love. (IV.i.85-90)

When Juliet discovers that Romeo is dead, we see how completely she loves him—she cannot live without him, so she kills herself.

JULIET:

Go, get thee hence, for I will not away…

What's here? A cup, clos'd in my true love's hand?

Poison, I see, hath been his timeless end.

O churl! drunk all, and left no friendly drop

To help me after? I will kiss thy lips.

Haply some poison yet doth hang on them

To make me die with a restorative.

Thy lips are warm! …

…Yea, noise? Then I'll be brief. O happy dagger!

This is thy sheath; there rust, and let me die.

(V.iii.165-175)

What is Juliet's personality in Romeo and Juliet?

When analyzing a character's personality, we are analyzing characterization. Characterization is how the author portrays the character as a person. There can be both direct and indirect characterization. Direct characterization is when an author comes right out and says what the character is like in the narrative. Indirect characterization is when the author takes a more subtle approach, showing us what the character is like through the story by allowing us to see how the character acts, thinks, and feels. We can even observe characterization through how other characters respond to the character in question, what they think of that character.  Since Romeo and Juliet is a play, all of Shakespeare's characterization of Juliet is indirect and must be analyzed through the things she says and does. A few things we know about her personality through indirect characterization is that she is a kind, respectful person, but has a strong will and is even a bit stubborn.

We especially see Juliet acting respectfully towards her mother in the third scene when we first meet Juliet. Lady Capulet is trying to convince Juliet to think of marrying Paris. Adhering to her role as a respectful and obedient daughter, Juliet promises her mother that she will consider Paris, saying, "I'll look to like, if looking liking move" (I.iii.101). However, even in this very first scene, Juliet demonstrates just how much she values her own opinion, proving herself to be strong-willed and stubborn. For example, we see Juliet expressing her own opinion when Lady Capulet asks her what she thinks of the idea of getting married, and Juliet replies, "It is an honour that I dream not of" (70).

We especially see Juliet's kind nature with respect to how she treats Nurse. When her nurse returns to the Capulet house with a message for Juliet from Romeo about arranging their marriage, Juliet is desperate to learn the message, but continues to treat her nurse with kindness, calling her pet names, like "honey nurse," "sweet nurse," and "good nurse" (II.v.18, 21, 29). Even saying, when the nurse complains of her aching bones, "I'faith, I am sorry that thou art not well" (54).

What is Juliet's personality, and what conflicts does she have on the issue of Romeo leaving.

In Act III, Scene 5, Romeo needs to leave Juliet or he will be killed if found by Prince Escalus's watchmen.  Juliet is very insecure that it will be forever before she sees Romeo again and she needs reassurance that he will be with her.

What is Juliet's personality, and what conflicts does she have on the issue of Romeo leaving.

As befitting her youth, Juliet is impulsive and a starry-eyed romantic. She has been raised by her nurse, a fact that distances her somewhat from her mother (she listens and confides in the nurse when she has a problem, not her mother.) She loves her father, but he is also not a great example of parenting. He plans Juliet's marriage, claiming that she can marry whom she likes, but only to someone he consents to; his claims of her freedom of choice are pretty paltry, however, as he has already selected a mate for her and has no doubts that she'll agree.

Juliet, therefore, has the age-old feelings of teenage rebellion. She wants her freedom; freedom to escape her parent's home and freedom to fall in love. Romeo is attractive to her because he is forbidden; he is the son of the family's long-time enemies, the Montagues, a fact that makes him all the more attractive.

Juliet lacks the maturity, however, to face her parents and say directly what it is that she wants. Instead, she and her equally immature lover (shortly to be husband) act clandestinely to pursue their own goals.

When Romeo leaves, Juliet is bereft. She will stop at nothing to be reunited with Romeo, enlisting everyone she thinks she can trust to make this happen (chiefly her nurse and Friar Lawrence). However, she is due to be forced to marry Parris. If she does, she will be a bigamist. Her love and her duty, thus, come sharply into contention.

What are three character traits of the Nurse in Romeo and Juliet?

Juliet’s nurse is protective, affectionate, and bawdy.

First of all, Juliet’s nurse is like a mother. She is very protective of the little girl she raised from a baby, because she lost her own children. She cares more about Juliet than anything. Juliet reminds her of her own daughter, Susan, because they would have been the same age had Susan lived. Nurse is not all too impressed with Romeo, and tells Juliet she can do better.

Nurse is affectionate. She seems to care for Juliet when no one else does. She gives her advice. For one thing, she tells her to marry Paris. Yet when Juliet tells her she only loves Romeo, Nurse concedes and helps them secretly marry.

I will tell her, sir, that you do protest, which, as I
take it, is a gentlemanlike offer.(165) (Act 1, Scene 4)

She wants what Juliet wants.

Nurse also really likes to make bawdy, sexual jokes. Some of her jokes are stronger than others, but an example is when Lady Capulet tells Juliet that she will not grow less to have a man.

No less? Nay, bigger! Women grow by men. (Act 1, Scene 3)

This is of course a reference to the fact that men make women pregnant. Her jokes are a good source of comic relief throughout the play.

What are three character traits of the Nurse in Romeo and Juliet?

The first character trait of the Nurse is she loves to talk. In Act I, Scene 3, the Nurse goes on and on about how she raised Juliet since she was a babe.  Lady Capulet is trying to tell Juliet that County Paris wants to marry her.  Everytime Lady Capulet tries to get a word in the Nurse starts her ramblings.

The second character trait is the Nurse will do whatever it takes to make Juliet happy as if she were her daughter.  In Act II, Scene 4, she goes behind Lady and Lord Capulet's backs and meets secretly with Romeo to set up the wedding with Juliet.

The third character trait of the Nurse is she can be wishy-washy in her actions.  In Act II, Scene 5,After Romeo is exiled and Tybalt is killed by Romeo, the Nurse sides with Juliet's parents and tells her to marry Paris. She tells Juliet that Romeo is as good as dead and since she is still living, she should marry Paris.  She has totally betrayed Juliet at this point and Juliet has lost respect for the Nurse. 

What are three character traits of the Nurse in Romeo and Juliet?

1. She's lowbrow. The nurse is a working class, bawdy character who makes comments and jokes at Juliet's expense. Her sexual undertones are inappropriate for a woman in charge of a young woman, yet she seems oblivious to this.
2. She's indiscrete. She tells too much, and ignores lady Capulet's and Juliet's request that she hold her tongue (1 iii). She tells Romeo that Juliet has another suitor who "would fain lay knife aboard" (wants to have sex with her) when there is no reason for her to reveal that info.

3. She is well-intentioned, but foolish. She seems concerned about Romeo's integrity, telling him it would be weak dealing if he were leading Juliet into a fool's paradise, yet in almost the next breath she's arranged to help Romeo hang a ladder to Juliet's bedroom.

3. Drama Queen (see the exchange between her and Juliet after she first sees Romeo)

4. She is pragmatic. When it looks as if things won't work out with Romeo, she counsels Juliet to take the second choice (Paris).

What are three character traits of the Nurse in Romeo and Juliet?

The nurse is loving towards Juliet. She begins to tell a story about the young Juliet even though Lady Capulet doesn't want to hear it. It is remincent of a mother that tells everyone the time her toddler ran around a wedding naked. She is also loyal to her charge. She does help her out when trying to recieve the message from Romeo even though she knows who he is. The nurse is also very bawdy. Her language is not of the upper class. She can tell a rude joke if the occaision arises.

What are three character traits of the Nurse in Romeo and Juliet?

While playing a loving and comic role, the Nurse of Romeo and Juliet later becomes a rather fickle character.

• Comic

The Nurse embodies romantic comedy as the inarticulate messenger and "sparring partner" with Mercutio. Her prolix ramblings lighten the more serious moments as, for instance, when she and Lady Capulet talk in Act I, Scene 3. When Lady Capulet mentions that Juliet is not fourteen, the Nurse rambles on and on about this and other numbers, beginning by saying, 

I’ll lay fourteen of my teeth—and yet, to my teen be it spoken, I have but four—she is not fourteen. How long is it now to Lammastide? (1.3.12-14)

Enjoying the number fourteen, she continues for another fourteen lines until Lady Capulet cuts her off with "I pray thee hold thy peace," and then the Nurse picks up on the word "peace" and rambles about this. In playing her role, the student can take a word and then do the same rambling about it.

• Loving and affectionate to Juliet

As a poor relative, the Nurse has been taken in by the wealthy Capulets to care for their baby daughter. As a result, she has developed a motherly-like fondness for Juliet, although she must also stay in Juliet's parents' good graces lest she lose her position in the Capulets' house. 

When Juliet falls in love with Romeo, the Nurse obeys her wishes and makes contact with Romeo. She demands to be assured that Romeo's intentions are genuine, and she later enables Romeo and Juliet to spend the night together before he must flee Mantua. Even in this serious moment, though, the Nurse cannot resist joking. For, when she says,

I must another way,
To fetch a ladder by the which your love
Must climb a bird's nest soon when its dark. (2.5.77-79)

The Nurse makes a bawdy joke because "climbing a bird's nest" is an earthy expression for having sex.

• Fickle 

While the Nurse stands in contrast to Juliet in that she seems more practical than the romantic Juliet, it is yet difficult to understand why she later urges Juliet to marry Paris when she knows Juliet is already married to Romeo: 

Romeo is banished, and all the world to nothing
That he dares ne'er come back to challenge you,
Or, if he do, it needs must be by stealth... 
Beshrew my very heart, 
I think you are happy in this second match, 
For it excels your first, or, if it did not, 
Your first is dead, or 'twere as good he were, 
As living here and you no use of him. (3.5.226-238)

Here the Nurse seems callous towards Juliet, but it may be that she does not want to lose Juliet. For, if Juliet marries Paris, the Nurse will probably obtain a position in Juliet's new household. Perhaps, too, the simple and practical Nurse cannot understand the idealistic thinking of Juliet. The Nurse also could have changed her position because, after her defense of Juliet against Lord Capulet, she has suffered abuse by Lord Capulet and fears for her own safety, having nowhere else to live.

"You are to blame, my lord, to rate her so" (3.5.177) the Nurse tells Lord Capulet, and he lashes out at her verbally, perhaps even physically, as he has demonstrated in Act I that he is rather choleric. At any rate, this is the moment after which the Nurse changes her point of view.

What are four personality traits of Juliet in Romeo and Juliet?

One of the most important aspects of Romeo and Juliet is how Juliet develops and matures as a character over the course of a very short period of time. At the beginning of the play she could be described as obedient and docile, as illustrated by her response to her parents when they ask her to meet Paris:

I'll look to like, if looking liking move; 
But no more deep will I endart mine eye 
Than your consent gives strength to make it fly.

After meeting Romeo, however, the audience sees that Juliet is as passionate and fiery as he is. She is consumed by her love for him almost immediately. At the same time, however, she is also pragmatic and eager to ensure that Romeo feels the same way as she does before she is willing to proceed in what she knows will be a dangerous affair:

O gentle Romeo, 
If thou dost love, pronounce it faithfully. 
Or if thou thinkest I am too quickly won, 
I'll frown, and be perverse, and say thee nay,
So thou wilt woo; but else, not for the world. 

After their wedding, Juliet becomes defiant of her parents, swearing that she will not marry Paris, no matter what her father says. This is a major change from her portrayal earlier in the play, when she was a deferential young girl. Finally, at the end of the play, we see how courageous Juliet is as she willingly enters into the Friar's scheme, despite the horrific possibility that she might wake up in the Capulet family crypt. She is willing to enter a death-like state, and even to risk death itself to be reunited with her husband.

What are four personality traits of Juliet in Romeo and Juliet?

1. Juliet is impatient. When the Nurse goes to speak with Romeo to find out the time and place for the wedding, Juliet is impatiently awaiting her return. The Nurse had apparently left the house at 9 AM and did not return till noon. During that time, Juliet paces around her room, wondering all sorts of things from whether the Nurse was injured to whether Romeo still planned to marry her. As soon as the Nurse returns, Juliet bombards her with questions before she even has a chance to sit down.

2. Juliet is impulsive. Both she and Romeo act without thinking first. As soon as Romeo says he loves her, she immediately jumps to the conclusion that they have formed a "contract" (an engagement). Never mind that the two have only spent a total of about ten minutes together and she has not even heard him speak one hundred words yet.

3. Juliet is rash and goes to extremes. The moment she hears about Romeo's banishment, she wants to kill herself rather than think about how to find another solution. When she sees Romeo dead (he, too, is rash in his decisions), she takes his dagger and kills herself.

4. Juliet is naive. When Romeo says he loves her, she thinks that marriage is the next immediate step. There's no courting or wooing, even though she offers to "be strange".

What are four personality traits of Juliet in Romeo and Juliet?

Juliet is incredibly brave.  She is willing to betroth herself and marry the son of her family's enemy, risking all their displeasure and anger.  She is willing to reject her parents' command that she marry the County Paris, despite the fact that her mother and father basically threaten to cast her out into the street if she disobeys them.  She is willing to take a terrifying drug that will make her seem dead, undergo her own funeral, and wake up in a tomb.  The fact that she's so brave at thirteen years old is pretty incredible.

Further, she really knows her own mind.  Once she determines what she wants, there is little (or nothing) that can dissuade her.  Not even her trusted nurse, who's really been more like a mother to her than her own mother has, can persuade Juliet to abandon the marriage to Romeo and try for happiness with the County Paris.  She's a very determined young woman, for sure.

What are Juliet's personality traits in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet?

When we first meet Juliet with her Nurse and her mother, we learn that one of Juliet's  personality traits is loyalty. Juliet is depicted as a very obedient daughter, as we see when she responds to her mother's request to consider Paris as a husband with, "I'll look to like, if looking liking move," meaning, yes, she will look at Paris to see if she can like him if her mother believes that one can like a person from seeing a person. (I.iii.101).

However, in this passage, we also get a glimpse of a second personality trait of Juliet's, self-will. While Juliet is consenting to do as her mother asks, she is also hinting that it is unlikely that she will actually like Paris. Furthermore, she declares that she is unwilling to let herself fall in love with Paris in the lines, "But no more deep will I endart mine eye / Than your consent gives strength to make it fly," meaning that she will not let Cupid pierce her with the arrow of love that flies (I.iii.98-99, "Romeo and Juliet," Shakespeare Navigators). Therefore, although Juliet is appearing to be obeying her mother, she is hiding her rebellion behind vague, poetic wording. We see this same rebellious personality trait when she quarrels with her father and refuses to marry Paris.

How would you sum up Juliet's personality in Romeo and Juliet?

For my money, Juliet is practical, brave, and headstrong.  Here are some quotes to get you started on any one of these characterizations.

In the opening of the balcony scene, she displays her practical mind when, as Romeo stands below her window telling the audience how much he loves her, she is considering the huge obstacle to that love -- he is a Montague and her sworn enemy:

O Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo?

Deny thy father and refuse thy name.

Or, if thou wilt not, be but sworn my love

And I'll no longer be a Capulet.

Juliet's practical turn of mind is revealed in her first words in the famous balcony scene.  She speaks not about how dreamy-eyed in love she is, but rather the practical events that must happen in order for them to be together.

A good example of her bravery comes quite late in the play.  She has just been kicked out of her home by her father (if she refuses to marry Paris) and had her closest confidant, The Nurse, tell her she should marry Paris and forget Romeo.  She decides to go completely alone to the Friar and beg him for remedy.  If he has none, she vows to kill herself  or undergo any other gruesome act, rather than marry Paris:

O, bid me leap, rather than marry Paris,

From off the battlements of any tower

Or walk in thievish ways, or bid me lurk

Where serpents are.  Chain me with roaring bears,

Or hide me nightly in a charnel-house.

Ultimately, she commits a huge act of bravery, when she drinks the potion that the Friar gives her, not knowing if it will kill her or merely cause her to seem dead.

Her headstrong nature can actually be seen in the events I have described above, and in her determination to marry Romeo, even though he is her family's enemy.  She is the one that pushes for marriage, and one wonders if Romeo would have had the gumption without her headstrong presence behind him.

How would you sum up Juliet's personality in Romeo and Juliet?

Naturally, I think that your impression of Juliet is going to be critical in forming your writing about her character.  In the end, it's what you feel about Juliet that is going to drive this assignment.  You certainly can collect what others say about it, but your perception of her is critical.  With that in mind, I think that you can make a case for Juliet being really quite resourceful and quite intelligent, perhaps even more than Romeo.  Juliet is savvy enough to understand that as a young woman in a patriarchial setting, she is not able to give into the Romantic flights of fancy in which Romeo can indulge. In their first meeting, she speaks about love with an experience and insight that belies her age and is coy with the nurse in trying to find out Romeo's name.  When their love continues, Juliet is quite direct in asking Romeo if he loves her.  This is fairly bold and intelligent for a character who is seen as a "star crossed lover."  I think that being able to come up with the plan for them to escape would be another instance of her intelligence.  These moments might be able to give you specific lines where her intelligence can be explored as a summation of her personality.

What traits of Juliet are revealed in Act 1 of Romeo and Juliet?

When talking about traits, we are talking about a character's personality traits. Personality is the way in which a person behaves, thinks, and even feels on a regular basis. A person's personality is mostly shown in the things they do and say. So when analyzing Juliet's characterization for her traits, or personality traits, what we are doing is examining the things she says and does to see what they reveal about her nature.

One good scene to analyze is the very first scene in which we meet Juliet, Act 1, Scene 3. In this scene, we see her interacting with her mother and learn about her present views of marriage. When interacting with her mother, we see that she is very respectful and polite and also very forthright in her answers. For example, when summonsed, Juliet answers with, "Madam, I am here. / What is your will?" (7-8). Formally addressing her mother as "madam" shows us how polite and respectful she is, which are also some of her personality traits.

Also, when asked what she thinks of marriage, Juliet gives a very honest and forthright answer when she bluntly says, "It is an honour that I dream not of" (70). This one little frank response shows us that, while she respects her mother, she also values her own heart, mind, and self. She cares about her own opinions, so much so that she feels she has every right to make her opinions be known. Through this one little response, we learn one of her traits is self-respect. In addition, since it is such an honest, forthright answer, we also learn that other traits of hers are honesty and frankness.