Attitude of Lord Capulet in William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet

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Attitude of Lord Capulet in William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet

My assignment will look at the attitude and the behaviour of Lord

Capulet in Romeo and Juliet and I will also look at how far Lord

Capulet is to blame for the tragedy of the star-crossed lovers.

The most famous English playwright William Shakespeare wrote Romeo and

Juliet. William Shakespeare son of John and Mary Shakespeare was born

in 1564 in Stratford-Upon-Avon.

Before the play started an actor would come up to the stage and read

out the prologue. The prologue summarised the play. There are several

sonnets in the play, the chorus at the start and end of Act 1, Lady

Capulet's praise of Paris. "Read o'er the volume of young Paris' face,

by having him, making yourself no less."(Act 1, Scene 3, line 82-95)

In the prologue the audience picks up that the play will be about love

and hatred because words like "love," "mutiny" and "death" are used

but more significantly there are more words linked with hate and death

used for example "civil blood," "misadventure" and "piteous

overthrows."

The play "Romeo and Juliet" is about 2 households in an ancient grudge

when new mutiny produces a pair of star-crossed lovers who marry

secretly and die. After an elaborate plan goes foolishly wrong but

their death marked love buries their parent's strife.

Lord Capulet, the father of Juliet was in charge of the Capulet

family. He was quiet old. But was married to a younger woman. Juliet

was his only living child but we knew that he has had other children "

Earth has swallowed all my hopes but she " so the audience is told all

his other children are dead and therefore he wanted his only child to

be happy. "She's the hopeful lady of my Earth "

Here the moral fibre of Lord Capulet uses metaphorical language to

create imagery of his children being dead this style of language would

be entertaining and pleasant for the audience to listen to.

During Shakespeare time fathers were very different from the fathers

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