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Youth and age are certainly contrasted in Romeo and Juliet, though not necessarily old age. It is rather a contrast between youths and adults.Youth is portrayed through the young characters of the play, such as Romeo, Juliet, Benvolio, and Mercutio. Juliet is our youngest character, being only 13. We know that Juliet is only 13 because her father points out to Paris that she is not yet fourteen in saying, “She hath not seen the change of fourteen years”” (I.ii.9). Likewise