The result of finding the gradient of a scalar field is a vector, a quantity that has both magnitude and direction! More specifically, it is a vector function -- a function that gives us back a vector when we give it a position, i.e. a particular \(\langle x, y, z\rangle\) .
Franco Zeffirelli's Romeo and Juliet is a lovely, sensitive, friendly popularization of the playthe lovers, Leonard Whiting and Olivia Hussey, as young and full of life as they ought to be, Italy of its time there intact, a lot made of the relationship between Romeo and Mercutio, beautifully played by John McEnery.
Juliet was played by the actress Harriet Smithson, with whom Berlioz (who spoke barely any English) fell instantly and deeply in love - a pair of star cross'd lover indeed. They married in 1833 (until Berlioz started an affair and the marriage broke up). Charles Kemble and Harriet Smithson as Romeo and Juliet.