Compare the ways the writers present the relationships between parents and children in Romeo and Juliet, Her Father and My father thought it Blood...

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In this essay, I am going to compare the ways the writers present the relationship between parents and children in Romeo and Juliet, Her Father and My father thought it Bloody Queer.

All parents love, care and protect their children in different ways.

At the beginning of Act 1 scene 2 in “Romeo and Juliet”, Lord Capulet seems like a caring and loving character as he is reluctant to allow Juliet to get married with whomever she loves. At this point, his intention just want Juliet to be happy as Juliet is his only child. This can be shown in the line 1.2.15 where Lord Capulet said: “She’s the hopeful lady of my earth.” This suggests to the audience that he cares, love and value his daughter. It also shows that he is saying Juliet is the only heritage of Capulet’s life as she is the only child of his body. Shakespeare utilises the word “earth” which is a metaphor to express the Capulet’s affection towards his daughter- Juliet. This metaphor is used because Shakespeare wants to emphasis the uniqueness as well as the importance of Juliet to her father. Additionally, his intention was to further evoke the idea that Juliet is very precious to Lord Capulet. This suggests to the audience that he has an intimate relationship with his daughter. An audience at the time would think that Lord Capulet is very caring and considerate of his daughter. Whereas, a modern audience would think that Lord Capulet has high expectation of his daughter- he wants Juliet to achieve what he wanted; he won’t tolerate any mistakes from her.

Equally to Capulet in “Romeo and Juliet”, the father in “Her Father” is also a caring and loving character. He is “at hand” when his daughter meets her date. This indicates to the reader that the father is protective of ...

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...r’s mind- to visualise his appearance. The use of simile makes the reader feel that he has a feminine look.

From these points, we see that the father and the son have a fair relationship between each other.

In conclusion, the affect of the relationship largely depends on the quality of communication between parents and children. The parents’ may need to examine their children’s objection, and vice versa. This can be shown in “Romeo and Juliet”, “Her Father” and “My father thought it Bloody Queer”, where all parents have lack of communication with their children. They show their parental love by deciding what the best is for their children; they insist their children to do as they are told. As a result, children attitude begins to change as their parents have neglected their feeling. This causes suffering for parents and children which may end their relationship.

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