Romeo and Juliet Role

Leading characters in the play

Montague Family

Old Montague and Old Lady Montague

The parents of Romeo. They have no part in the action of the play, but they illustrate the family feud with the Capulets. Montague is still eager to draw his sword and join in the fighting.

Romeo

Their only son. At the beginning of the play he thinks that he is inlove with Rosaline, a lady whom we never see. It is the idea of being a lover that appeals to Romeo. He quickly forgets Rosaline when he meets Juliet. He is impulsive and passionate: he falls in love with Juliet and marries her. When his friend is killed by Juliet's cousin, Romeo avenges the murder-and as a punishment he is banished from his native city of Verona and his newly-marriedwife.

Benvolio

One of Romeo's friends. He is quite a serious young man, who issympathetic to Romeo's passions, and who allows Romeo andMercutio to tease him. He is a necessary character rather than aninteresting one: he is always available to offer an explanation.

Mercutio

Romeo's other friend. He is full of energy, which is shown in the way he uses words, always playing with two or more meanings in a single word. His vitality leads him to challenge Tybalt, Juliet's cousin, to fight a duel.| In the fighting, Mercutio is (almost accidentally) killed.

Capulet Household

Old Capelet and Lady Capulet

These two characters, the parents of Juliet, are more important than their counterparts, Romeo's parents. Old Capulet is anxious  for his daughter to make a good marriage, but he is also-at the beginning of the play-insistent that she should love the man she marries. After the death of his nephew Tybalt, Old Capulet changes in his attitude to Juliet's marriage, and is prepared to force her to marry the man of his choice, Paris.

Lady Capulet is an(obedienb wife: she puts her husband's will before her daughter's wishes. )