Which Character had the worst expierence in Act IV?

Of the characters in Act IV, who do you have sympathy for? Why? Provide specific details to support your opinion. Be sure to elaborate and explain your thoughts in detail.

Of the characters in Act IV, I feel sympathy for Paris the most.  Paris is not a bad guy.  He just is a boy looking for love.  Juliet's parents arranged the marriage with Paris.  Paris wants to marry Juliet but Juliet won't love him back.  Becuase Juliet is married to Romeo, she feels it's wrong to marry Paris when she loves Romeo.  When her parents have had enough excuses for not marrying Paris, they just plan a wedding for her.  Juliet can't do this becuse she is married to Romeo.



Paris



Juliet takes a visit to Friar Lawrence for advice, and he gives her the idea of "killing herself."  When the Juliet and Friar Lawrence are discussing the idea, he quotes, "Hold, daughter!  I do spy a kind of hope,  which craves as desperate an execution as that is desperate which we would prevent.  If, rather than to marry County Paris, thou hast the strength of will to slay thyself"(Shakespeare 232).  Friar Lawrence says this when he explains to Juliet that she could have the option to drink a potion that makes her go to sleep for 48 hours on the wedding day.  The Capulets and Paris will think that Juliet is dead while really she is just asleep.  Then, when Juliet is in her tomb, she will wake up.  Then, if the plan works, Romeo will save her and they will escape to the city Romeo was banished to.

I feel sympathy for Paris becuse he just wants Juliet to be his wife, but Juliet is married to Romeo so she cannot marry Paris.  I am positive she doesn't want to hurt Paris, she just can't marry him becuase of Romeo.

Vocabulary:

arbitrating- to decide as arbitrator or arbiter; determine.

distraught- distracted; deeply agitated.

immoderatly- not moderate; exceeding just or reasonable limits; excessive; extreme.
inundation- to flood; cover or overspread with water; deluge.

resolution- the act of resolving or determining upon an action or course of action, method, procedure, etc.

spited- a malicious, usually petty, desire to harm, annoy, frustrate, or humiliate another person; bitter ill will; malice.

supple- bending readily without breaking or becoming deformed; pliant; flexible.