In Romeo and Juliet, please identify three character traits of Juliet with quotations to support these traits.

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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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)