Character
Personality trait &
Quotation
Romeo
1.Love-sick
A sick man in madness makes
his will-/A word that is ill
urged to one that is so ill/In
sadness cousin I do love a
woman(1.1 210-212)
2.Kind hearted
I do protest I never injured
thee,
But love thee better than
thou canst devise,
Till thou shalt know the
reason of my love.
And so, good Capulet—which
name I tender
As dearly as my own—be
satisfied.(3.1,39-43)
1. Romeo is motivated
by love and he falls in
love too quickly
2. Romeo's motivation is
juliet since she is a
capulet he now wants
to be kind and sweet
to the capulets
Juliet
1. Eager
I would thou hadst my bones
and I thy news.
Nay, come, I pray thee,
speak. Good, good Nurse,
speak.
(2.5,27-28)
2. defensive
My husband lives, that Tybalt
would have slain,
And Tybalt’s dead, that
would have slain my
husband.
(3.2,107-109)
1. defensive
O calm dishonorable, vile
submission!
Alla stoccata carries it away.
(draws his sword)
Tybalt, you ratcatcher, will
you walk?(3.1,41-46)
2. jokester
Oh, then, I see Queen Mab
Romeo is Juliet's motivation
she is eager to hear any bit of
news about him
Mercutio
Motivation
Her motivation is her
husband she tries to protect
him from harm.
Romeo is his motivation and he
wants to fight Tybalt for him
his motivation is Romeo he tries
to cheer him up
Benvolio
Tybalt
Nurse
hath been with you.
1. peacekeeper
(draws his sword) Part, fools!
Put up your swords. You
know not what you
do.(1.1,54-55)
2. Coward
I pray thee, good Mercutio,
let’s retire.
The day is hot; the Capulets,
abroad;
And if we meet we shall
not ’scape a brawl,
For now, these hot days, is
the mad blood stirring.
(3.1,1-4)
1. aggressor
What, drawn, and talk of
peace? I hate the word,
As I hate hell, all Montagues,
and thee.
Have at thee, coward!
(1.1,60-63)
2. vengeful
This, by his voice, should be a
Montague.—
(to his PAGE) Fetch me my
rapier, boy.—
What, dares the slave
(1.5,52-54)
1. helpful
Let me come in, and you shall
know my errand.
I come from Lady Juliet.
(3.4,79-81)
2.jokester
Yes, madam. Yet I cannot
choose but laugh
To think it should leave
crying and say “ay.”
And yet, I warrant, it had
upon its brow
A bump as big as a young
Motivation is the Montagues he
tries to protect them
His motivation is trying to avoid
fights with others
his motivation is to kill all
Montagues and fights them
he wants to get attack Romeo
for being a the party
her motivation is to help Juliet
marry Romeo
Her motivation is Juliet and
wants to have fun with her
cockerel’s stone,
A perilous knock, and it cried
bitterly.
“Yea,” quoth my husband,
“Fall’st upon thy face?
Thou wilt fall backward when
thou comest to age.
Wilt thou not, Jule?” It
stinted and said “ay.”
(1.3,52-59)
Friar
Lawrence
1. protective
Arise. One knocks. Good
Romeo, hide thyself (3.3,72)
2. helpful
Or by the break of day disguised
from hence.
Sojourn in Mantua. I’ll find out
your man,
And he shall signify from time to
time
Every good hap to you that
chances here
(3.3,170-173)
his motivation is to protect
romeo and hides him from
people
heis motivation is romeo and
wants to help him escape