marriage is consummated do the lovers find a common tempo of experience, although as the farewell in the orchard indicates, that common tempo has been all too brief. At the very moment both Romeo and Juliet want to linger, they become victims of passing time, he obliged to escape for his life and she obliged to rush him away, banished to Mantua for killing Tybalt.
In the context of unfolding time, the representation of tragic heroism for the lovers arises from their response to their feelings. In virtually every respect, Juliet can be seen to be far more mature and thoughtful at the outset, not only about her relationship with Romeo but also about love itself. For example, Juliet suspects her feelings as "too sudden, / Too like the lightning, which doth cease to be / Ere one can say 'It lightens'" (II.ii). Her forebodings are confirmed by the action of the play, in which love and time work together and separately to function very like the destructive element of lightning.
In the matter of love itself, Juliet's understanding is also more mature than R
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