Juliet is a very young lady, daughter of the Capulets. She is innocent but also intelligent. Juliet is brought up by the Nurse, who is motherly towards her. Juliet rebels against her actual parents by refusing to marry the man they have chosen to be her husband. Instead, she is in love with Romeo, even though she is acutely aware that their families are enemies. She agrees to marry Romeo secretly, and when he is banished she plans to elope, and is helped by the Friar. Juliet is brave and loyal to Romeo, she is more careful and measured than he is, but she is still radical by rejecting her own family in favour of him. When she wakes up from her feigned death to see Romeo actually dead, she also kills herself.
      In Verona, a house claiming to be the Capulets' has been turned into a tourist attraction. It features the balcony, and in the small courtyard, a bronze statue of Juliet. It is one of the most visited sites in the town. The metal of its chest is worn bare due to a legend that if a person strokes the breast of the statue, that person will have good fortune.