Within the few days the play takes place over, Juliet is forced to grow up very quickly —she is faced with issues associted with love, passion, and death. At the beginning of the play, her parents present to her the proposal of potentially marrying Count Paris, who fancies her. During a party where she plans to look over Paris, she ends up meeting and falling in love with Romeo, the son of her family rival. In short time she secretly marries Romeo, finds herself at loss of her cousin Tybalt, by the fault of her new husband, spends only one short night with Romeo before he is banished from the city of Verona, is threatened by her father and nearly disowned by both of her parents for refusing to marry the man they have chosen for her, is let down by her nurse (and her best friend) who raised her from the time she was born, fakes her own death while drugged to unconsciousness, wakes up to find her husband dead by her side, and takes her own life following.