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            Juliet from Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet," and Ophelia from Shakespeare's "Hamlet," are both portrayed as naive and childlike, which ultimately brings about their downfall. They both have a strong misunderstanding of the world around them, with Juliet making all the wrong decisions, and Ophelia never making any of her own. Throughout both plays they both prove themselves to be nothing more than immature children.
             "I'll look to like, if looking liking move;/ But no more deep will I endart mine eye/ Than your consent gives strength to make it fly." Here Juliet is saying that she will obey the commands she is given, much like Ophelia. However, once she meets Romeo she begins to make her own decisions, which happen to be all the wrong ones. She believes she is in love with him when she is merely infatuated with him. She puts everything on the line just to be with him, which proves just how childish and immature she is. Her poor decision making and naive way of thinking leads to the tragic ending of both family and friends. "My child is yet a stranger in the world." Juliet is viewed by her father as just a young child, which she proves several times throughout the book that she is nothing gmre than an immature child. She believes she can decide things for herself, but the outcomes of her poor decision making tell a different story. "When such criticism explores Juliet, it is often influenced by her young age of fourteen, reading her as little more than a child - naive, immature, inexperienced."(Barnes) In the end everything catches up with her, the decision to sneak around with Romeo without regard for any of the consequences kills them both. Romeo gets banished and Juliet fakes her own death, which hurts everyone around her again illustrating her immaturity. Romeo finds her dead then kills himself, and when she wakes up and sees him dead then she kills herself.


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