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Juliet
Only child of the Capulet family, Juliet falls in love with Romeo the son of the sworn enemy of her family in a world wind romance. Her borderline personality disorder leads to her ill-fated suicide. Most evident to this idea is the fact that she has an intense personal relationship with Romeo. In a period of three days she meets a man, marries him, and commits suicide because of him.
Suicidal Behavior
When confronted with the fact that she might have to marry Paris, kin to the Prince of Verona, Juliet becomes outraged and yells and begs for the ability to delay the marriage. When she is refused and even her beloved nurse tells her she has no option, she starts cursing and tells them all to get away from her.
“Ancient Damnation! O most wicked fiend! Is it more sin to wish me thus forsworn, or to dispraise my lord with that same tongue which she hath praised him with above compare so many thousand times? Go counselor! Thou and my bosom henceforth shall be in twain.” (III.v. 237-242)
Intense Anger
Several occasions in the play Juliet threatens suicide. A symptom of Border line personality disorder, she finally goes through with the plan when she finds her husband has committed suicide.
“I will kiss thy lips. Haply some poison yet doth hang on them to make me die with a restorative.” (V.iii. 164-166)
-This is when Juliet first finds the body of Romeo, and discovers he has killed himself by means of poison. Without thinking she kisses him hoping there will be enough poison to kill her as well.
-When the first suicide attempt fails she looks for another way to end her life. She does so when she finds Romeo's dagger and she stabs herself in the heart.
“Then I’ll be brief. O happy dagger! This is thy sheath; there rust, and let me die.” (V.iii. 168-170)
Frantic Efforts to Avoid Abandonment
When Juliet is preparing to take the tincture the Friar gave her she is irrationally thinking of all the worse scenarios and how to avoid them. She is terrified of losing Romeo and will do anything to stop being married to another man.
“I have a faint cold fear thrills through my veins that almost freezes up the heat of life… My dismal scene I needs must act alone. Come, vial. What if this mixture do not work at all? Shall I be married in the morning? No, no! This shall forbid it. Lie thou there.” (IV.iii.15-21)
-At this point she even puts a dagger beside her bed in case the potion does not work and she must wake up on the day of her marriage.