You need to make a petition and have a certain amount of people to sign it, (let´s say you need/want 25,000 people to sign it to stop animal abuse, and have no more kill shelters, and stop lab testing on domestic animals.) i know that it´s very specific. Then you can go to the city´s courthouse, give them the official petition document, and ask the judge to give this to whoever is in charge of the city/state. Then you need to keep calling and write a letter to the white house/whoever is in charge to ask them to make a change in what you want them to change, i´m not a good person at explaining things, but i am speaking from my experience.
I would say that the principle means of characterization employed by the author is dialogue. Since Romeo and Juliet is a play, everything we know actually comes from the conversations, be it a dialogue, or a monologue.