Emotional Relationship that Exists Between Juliet and her Father in William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet

Emotional Relationship that Exists Between Juliet and her Father in William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet

In Act III, Romeo and Juliet got married, but Romeo has just been

banished of Verona because he killed Tybalt. In scene 5 of this same

act, Juliet, her parents and the nurse are present, and we are able to

see the relationship that exists between Lord Capulet and her

daughter. In this essay, I am going to study it first from Capulet’s

words and then from Juliet’s.

When Old Capulet comes into Juliet’s room, he expects her to be happy;

but instead he finds her crying. He says that everyone should be sad

about Tybalt’s death; but he jokes with her because he wonders how

such a small body can cry so many tears, she is like a water pipe. He

asks her three questions, “How now, a conduit, girl? What, still in

tears? Evermore showering?” because she’s not replying and he really

wants to know what’s wrong with her, though he thinks it is her

cousin’s death. This shows he is being a careful father and wants to

cheer her up. He uses an extended metaphor where Juliet is a boat, her

tears are the sea and her sighs the wind, to express his daughter’s

sadness and his concern about it: he doesn’t want Juliet’s sadness to

take control of her.

But this concern soon turns into confusion. When Lady Capulet tells

him Juliet’s reaction, Lord Capulet doesn’t understand it. This is

shown by the repetition of “take me with you” and the posing of four

questions: “How will she none? Doth she not give us thanks? Is she not

proud? Doth she not count her blessed, Unworthy as she is, that we

have wrought So worthy a gentleman to be her bride?”. While he is...

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...een on her side and said positive things

about Romeo. She says she will no longer be close to the Nurse and

that she hopes Friar Lawrence will find a remedy, or otherwise she

will commit suicide; she has reached the bottom of her emotions. And

we know she means it because it is expressed in a soliloquy.

We can conclude that at the beginning of the scene, Capulet seems to

be a careful father, but when he finds out she doesn’t agree to marry

Paris, he first doesn’t understand his daughter’s reaction, but then

he gets angrier and angrier with each word he pronounces. Juliet is

first sad because of Romeo’s banishment, and she gets more and more

desperate throughout the scene, as her father doesn’t understand and

accept her opinion. At the end of the scene, Capulet is very mad and

Juliet reached the bottom of her emotion.