Act 1 of the play has me very interested, it was very comedic in the beginning and I liked that part before all of the depressing, romantic part of the play shows its head. So far in the play, Romeo seems like a hopeless romantic who is without love at the moment, he seems very impulsive to find love and depressed that he can't find it, he proves this with the quote "out of her favour, which I am in love". Somehow he comes across as confident in who he is and that he'll find love. We haven't heard much about Juliet but she seems very hesitant to find a boy, she seems very content just doing her thing and just being a girl and doing what girls her age do. Benvolio is kind of like a peace keeper in the huge feud between the two families, he attempted to break up the fight between the two, he proved his peace-keeping ways when he said "I do but keep the peace, now put up thy sword or manage to part these men with me". Tybalt is by far the most violent of all of them, he wants a fight with the Montagues and attempts to add fuel to the fire by saying "what, drawn talk of peace, I hate the word, I hate hell and all Montegues" in which a fight breaks out and the citizens come forth and beat them with clubs. Lady Montague is a very concerned parent by the looks of it, she says "O, where is Romeo? Saw you him today? Right glad I am that he was not at this fray". She seems like she just wants him to stay out of trouble and to be happy because apparently she has noticed that he has seemed other than normal. Paris seems very eager to marry Juliet already as he says to Mr. Capulet "Younger than she are happy mothers made" although he is very wealthy, he is an older man and Juliet is just a ripe apple just picked from the tree at 13 years old and she is definitely not ready for a fully committed marriage. So far Romeo and Juliet is a very well-written and spontaneoulsly entertaining read and I look forward to continuing.
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