In romeo and juliet act one scen three?

Question:to what extent do you believe that juliet is capable of making mature decisions about love and marriage at this ponit in the play?

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Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: to what extent do you believe that juliet is capable of making mature decisions about love and marriage at this ponit in the play?

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Interesting question.

In this scene, Juliet barely speaks at all, only two lines of any real significance. We discover a good chunk of Juliet's life particulars from the Nurse's long recollections, but this scene doesn't delve into Juliet's inner being.

And yet...here we learn something very important about her when she says of marriage, "It is an honor that I dream not of." By her own admission, the desire for marriage has not yet bloomed in her heart. Nevertheless, she identifies marriage as an honor in her estimation; and she places the desire for marriage within the pleasant realm of dreams. She sounds like she's expecting to dream of the honor of marriage, but does not yet know when that will take place in her life.

This scene is so cram-packed with the nurse's doting ramblings and Lady Capulet's predetermination for an arranged marriage between Paris and Juliet, that I believe Juliet, age 14 or not, is the only one of these three women who carries herself with genuine aplomb in the conversation.

Cool, calm and collected.

Yet, as they say, still waters run deep. And soon enough, Romeo will ripple Juliet's waters not once, but twice in the same night, with enough gravitational pull to bring Juliet's love quotient to high tide in a just a few hours. At that time, she will begin to make a series of decisions in haste that will reveal her lack of real-life experience in matters of love, well-intentioned though she may be.

But to answer your question directly, at this point in the play (Act I, scene 3) Juliet shows that she is mature enough to submit to her mother's wishes for her future marriage, but is, so far, entirely untested regarding her maturity in making decisions or choices on her own behalf pertaining to love and marriage.

In short - at this exact point in the story, I believe it is too soon to tell.