Capulet of William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet Overview Capulet displays a mixture of qualities rather than conveying a sense steady action. He is concerned with maintaining order in his own house, especially after the prince's promise to execute any disturbers of the peace. He is motivated by desire to fulfill Juliet’s needs, if she obtains his approval. However, he is also motivated by increasing the power and influence this marriage will create for his family and his line. The relationship between Capulet and Lady Capulet In the play we see how Capulet and Lady Capulet’s relationship is influenced by situations, but how does Lady Capulet really feel about her husband? * Lady Capulet loves her husband but deep down is scared to admit that she no longer loves his hostile behaviour. * She is threatened by his actions and his reactions to situations. * Puts her husbands will before her daughters * Opts for the quiet life, to do so must concur with Capulet’s opinion to situations. How does the nurse view Capulet? During Act 3 Scene 5, we see Capulet’s fury with Juliet, but how does his behaviour influence the Nurse and her opinions on Capulet? * One of the characters created mainly for the purpose of humour is the Nurse. Her manner of speaking and her low intellect all creates an effect of hilarity, but during this argument we see her humorous behavior and quick, bawdy wit rapidly change to a more serious manner. This shows how intimidated she is of Capulet. * She doesn’t respect Capulet entirely. * She is occasionally disrespectful towards Capulet. * When she sees Juliet in danger of being hurt, mentally and physically, she stands up to Capulet. How does Juliet react to Capulet? How is this different form the way
The play of Romeo and Juliet is set in a rich suburb in the city of Verona in Italy. Romeo and Juliet is a play about love and passion between two young people. It is also about the fate of the two "star-crossed lovers," who eventually take their own lives because of misunderstandings. You could say that Romeo and Juliet had just too much bad luck and the play leaves you thinking "if only " If only the messenger had delivered the letter, if only Juliet had woken up sooner there are so many unfortunate chances in the play.
Act 1 Scene 3, shows to be the best initiation point. In this scene we can see right away that Lady Capulet is distant from Juliet. In line 1 of the scene, Lady Capulet says to the nurse “ Nurse, Where is my daughter? Call her forth to me.” In this small line it is easy to tell a lot about the relationship between Lady Capulet and her daughter. When she says “Nurse, where is my daughter?” means that she relies more on the nurse to know where her daughter is as oppose to herself. By saying “call her forth to me.” she is also passing the responsibility of getting the daughter to the nurse. By passing responsibilities of her daughter to the nurse; Lady Capulet is increasing the distance between her and her daughter. Another place where Lady Capulet shows to be distant is in Act 3 Scene 5. In this scene, in lines 69-73 she says “ Evermore Weeping for your cousin’s death? What, wilt thou wash him from his grave with tears? An if thou couldst, thou couldst not make him live. Therefore have done. Some grief shows much of love; but much grief shows still some want of wit.” In these lines Lady Capulet making an assumption as to what Juliet is feeling. Not only that, but she is also telling her not to cry instead of trying to understand what was really wrong with her daughter showing some distance among them. In these lines, the distance is clear, but this is only the inition of what the theme that Lady Capulet
The house of the Capulets invites loyalty among the people but also hot tempers. Through the inability to understand Juliet and put aside their anger they may have been the cause for the events that transpired during the story. Lord Capulet, patriarch of the Capulets, is a man that demands respect and has quite the temper. When his character is introduced he is a reasonable father, taking Juliet’s age into consideration the first time he is approached by Paris about marriage. He allows Romeo to take part of his party after Tybalt discovers him. This seems to take a complete 180 later on when Juliet disobeys her father, after her cousin’s death, he threatens to hurt her. “I tell thee what: get thee to church o' Thursday, or never after look me in the face. Speak not. Reply not. Do not answer me. My fingers itch.” Act 3, scene 5,
Capulet's Treatment of Juliet in William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet During the time that Shakespeare was writing Romeo and Juliet, the roles of people in society and the family were very different. Men were superior to women in every way; the father had full control over every aspect of his marriage and family. Children, especially girls, would have been expected to everything their father bid them – from chores to marrying a suitable husband. Men controlled every aspect of his family. He also owned everything his wife owned.
his rules and what he says, it would not be an option for his wife or
Nurse is an old woman who works for the Capulet family and who also happens to be Juliet’s mother figure. Nurse has a sizable personality and is as unpredictable as a hand in poker. She brings humor to this tale of star-crossed lovers and through the duration of the composition, it is shown that she enjoys teasing Juliet. A specific example of this is “Your love say, like an honest gentleman, and a courteous, and a kind, and a handsome, and, I warrant, a virtuous- Where is your mother?” (II. iv. 38-40). Nurse is trying to work and mold Juliet’s emotions just to see how she reacts. Her sarcastic nature is also emanated when she says, “Well, you have made a simple choice, you know not how to choose a man. Romeo? No, not he. [...] He is not the flower of courtesy, but, I’ll warrant him, as gentle as a lamb. Go thy ways, wench, serve God. What, have you dined at home?” (II. v. 38-39; 43-45). From the context in this scene, the audience can tell that Nurse is being sarcastic. In reality, she actually enjoys Romeo and thinks he is a suitable match for Juliet. Another instance where Nurse’s wit is presented is when she says, “Yes madam. Yet I cannot choose but to laugh to think it should leave crying and say ‘Ay’. And yet, I warrant, it had upon its brow a bump as big as a young cockrel’s stone; A perilous knock and it cried bitterly” (I. iii. 50-55). Before this quotation, Capulet cracks joke. Unlike Lady Capulet (who does not even crack a smile), Nu...
Although there are many factors to the tragedy of William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, some are greater than others. The major contributor to the downfall of these lovers was Capulet, Juliet's own father. He brought upon the death of Juliet by forcing her to marry Paris, separating her from her Romeo, and rejecting her.
the play, so we can see the way they change when they meet for the
Disobedient wretch!” (III.5.160) into her face, keeping the camera trained on his face contorted with fury. Moreover, Luhrmann chooses to have Capulet lash out at both the Nurse and Lady Capulet, pushing them both back aggressively as they attempt to remove him from Juliet. Again, there is a change shown in Lady Capulet 's attitude toward Juliet, but her delivery of the lines “Talk not to me, for I 'll not speak a word. / Do as thou wilt, for I have done with thee.” (III.5.203-4) is spoken far more coldly, both her manner and tone becoming indifferent and detached from her daughter 's heartfelt plea. However, it could also be pointed out that earlier in the scene, when Capulet enters with a swagger distinctive of what Modeness dubs “druglord-looking”13, asking “how now, wife?” (III.5.147) Lady Capulet appears to stiffen, and even looks afraid of her husband. Luhrmann 's depiction of the broken marriage of the Capulet 's is, in this way, slightly more subtle than that of Zeffirelli, suggesting that they created some sort of 'front ' to their society, hiding behind it the evidence of a rift in their marriage. This perhaps would have spoken to the youth culture of the 1990s, whose 'rebellion ' against their parents included the emergence of pop and rock music, and attempts to tear down the idea of 'keeping up appearances '. As
The Coroner’s Inspector arrived at the scene on Friday morning. The environmental conditions of the scene: Temperature approximately eighty-nine to ninety degrees Fahrenheit and it was relatively humid. Upon arriving at the scene of Juliet Capulet’s tomb, which was a little over six feet in height, and five feet in width, was made out of lithic bricks carved in a rough texture. The Inspector had to descend downwards to arrive at the main corridor, noticing the drops of blood following the path of the corridor. Once in the main corridor, the coffin that belonged to Juliet was extravagantly decorated, likely due to her noble status. The dimly lit corridor was approximately ten feet high and fifteen feet wide.
The Nurse is Capulets servant, and she is a very good servant as she tries her hardest to please the Capulets and Juliet at the same time. She is also a very important character in the play and in the Capulets lives. Through out the play The Nurse is Juliet’s confidant. The Nurse is a crucial character who strongly influences Juliet’s thoughts and actions. The main reason why the Capulet employed her was to breast feed Juliet. The Nurse was perfect for the job because she had just lost her little baby Susan, and The Nurse will now have unwanted breast milk that is ideal for Juliet as Lady Capulet does not want the role of breast feeding. The relationship between The Nurse and Juliet is like a mother daughter relationship, she is like Juliet surrogate mother towards Juliet.
in the bottom of a tomb. ’O God, I have an ill divining soul! Methinks
Believing that Juliet was mourning over Tybalt and that having her marry County Paris would be best for her, Capulet unknowingly starts a confrontation between him and his daughter Juliet. Regardless of her pleas, he sets the marriage date and ends the discussion; this leads to the previously-mentioned conversation with the Nurse, which makes things worse rather than better, and eventually winds up at Friar Laurence, tying everything together into one big heap of trouble. Now, the alternative for Lord Capulet’s actions would be to keep an open mind as the Nurse had said, “God in heaven bless her! / You [Capulet] are to blame, my lord, to rate her so.” (3.5.169-170), but that could result in a variety of consequences.
In Act 3 Scene 5and Act 4 Scene 5 we feel that Capulet is a contradictory person. In Scene 5 he gets provoked by the disobedience of Juliet, in her not agreeing to marry Paris, he gets very angry. In anger he says very hurtful things to Juliet which he doesn’t mean. Like
The audience’s first impression of Juliet however, is through her interaction with her mother (Lady Capulet) and the Nurse. From the Nurse’s remarks, the audience learns that Juliet is thirteen and “Come Lammas-eve at night shall [Juliet turn] fourteen” (Act I.3.18-9). As Juliet enters the presence of her mother and the Nurse, Shakespeare portrays Juliet as a very faithful daughter. When summoned by the Nurse, Juliet comes promptly then responds politely to her mother “Madam, I am here, what is your will?” (Act I.3.7). When Juliet refers to her mother as ‘madam” (Act I.3.7), the audience also gets the impression of Juliet being compliant to her elder’s wishes. This can be observed when her mothe...