Count Paris
Count Paris is the future husband of Juliet Capulet and kinsman of the Prince. He is somewhere in his 20s and is very polite and confident.
He is very self- absorbed, courteous, and ignorant.
"Romeo and Juliet: CHARACTERS / DETAILED ANALYSIS by William Shakespeare." Romeo and Juliet: CHARACTERS / DETAILED ANALYSIS by William Shakespeare. N.p., n.d. Web. 15 Mar. 2015.
"Romeo and Juliet Navigator: Characters: Paris." Romeo and Juliet Navigator: Characters: Paris. N.p., n.d. Web. 08 Mar. 2015.
Count Paris is the future husband of Juliet Capulet and kinsman of the Prince. He is somewhere in his 20s and is very polite and confident.
He is very self- absorbed, courteous, and ignorant.
- "The valiant Paris seeks you for his love" (1.3.80)
- "A man, young lady- lady, such a man as all the world - why, he's a man of wax" (1.3.81-82)
- "Verona's summer hath not such a flower" (1.3.83)
- "Nay, he's a flower, in faith, a very flower" (1.3.84)
- "Can you love the gentleman... read o'er the volume of young Paris' face, and find delight writ there with beauty's pen. Examine every married lineament and see how one another lends content, and what obscured in this fair volume lies find written in the margent of his eyes. This precious book of love, this unbound lover, to beautify him only lacks a cover. The fish lives in the sea, and 'tis much pride for fair without the fair within to hide. That book in many's eyes doth share the glory that in gold clasps locks in the golden story. So shall you share all that he doth possess by having him, making yourself no less" (1.3.85-100)
- "The gallant, young, and noble gentleman, the County Paris" (3.5.18-19)
- "So worthy a gentleman to be her bride" (3.5.150)
- "A gentleman of noble parentage, of fair demesnes, youthful, and nobly ligned, proportioned as one's thought would wish a man" (3.5.191-194)
- "O, he's a lovely gentleman! Romeo's a dishclout to him. An eagle, madam, hath not so green, so quick, so fair an eye as Paris hath" (3.5.231-234)
"Romeo and Juliet: CHARACTERS / DETAILED ANALYSIS by William Shakespeare." Romeo and Juliet: CHARACTERS / DETAILED ANALYSIS by William Shakespeare. N.p., n.d. Web. 15 Mar. 2015.
"Romeo and Juliet Navigator: Characters: Paris." Romeo and Juliet Navigator: Characters: Paris. N.p., n.d. Web. 08 Mar. 2015.