3. Characterization
People are not isolated, especially for the leading roles in a play; living in specific environments, people tend to inherit part of their character traits from their surroundings[5][P49]. And their characters decide their will. Then they will take all kinds of actions under the control of their wills. This part will examine how the characterizations in each work contribute to the differences in theme presentation discussed above.

3.1 The characterization in Romeo and Juliet
Characterization in Romeo and Juliet was direct and concrete: we know the inner world of the persona by what they said and what they did.
Because of the different culture backgrounds and their influences, people in the west are usually more outspoken than their Chinese counterparts. Romeo and Juliet saw each other at a banquet, they fell in love and Romeo kissed Juliet. She accepted and asked him to do that again.

Romeo: Thus from my lips, by thine my sin is purged.(kisses her)
Juliet: Then have my lips the sin that they have took.
Romeo: Sin from my lips, O trespass sweetly urged!
Give me my sin again. (Kissed her)
Juliet: You kiss by the book. (Act one, Scene V)[6][P32]
Romeo and Juliet were full of youthful spirit and bravery, and they were so naive and unaffected that people can feel romance from them. Romeo was an enthusiastic young man, both peaceloving and courageous[7][P44]. When he saw a fight was happening between Tybalt and his friends, he did his best to intervene, beating down the swords of their opponents. When he saw Tybalt mortally wounded his friend on his account, he provoked Tybalt to a fight and instantly killed him. In order to show his faithful love to Juliet, he risked his life to climb over the walls of the orchard to meet her and exchange their love’s faithful vows.
Romeo: With love’s light wings did I o’er perch these walls;

For stony limits cannot hold love out,

And what love can do, that dares love attempt.

Therefore thy kinsmen are no stop to me.
Juliet: If they do see thee, they will murder thee.
Romeo: Alack, there lies more peril in thine eye

Then twenty of their swords! Look thou but sweet,

And I am proof against their enmity. (Act Two, Scene II)[8][P36]

From Romeo’s own speech, we recognize his courage to go see his Juliet, his cleverness to escape from the Capulet’s men and eagerness to have Juliet as his wife.
And then he was willing to throw away his family name. He could even give up his precious life for loving Juliet and staying together forever.
Juliet was a naive and lively girl. She was brave and decisive, clever and resourceful[9][P28]. Being a strong character, she represented the power of hope. In the love affair with Romeo, she was the dominant part. It seems that power of her love would never dry up.英语作文