Literary Analysis Of Romeo And Juliet

Literary Analysis Romeo and Juliet
In act one scene three of Romeo and Juliet Lord Capulet states “…She hath not seen the change of fourteen years. Ere we may think her ripe to be a bride.” This means that Juliet is not quite fourteen years old and her father is not sure if she is ready to become a wife and mother. There are many differences between how people marry today, and how they married in the time of Romeo and Juliet. Some of the differences are when the people marry, why people marry, and also the level of maturity people marry at.
In the fifteenth century it was common for girls to marry in the begging of their teenage years, and also at a young maturity level. In act one scene three of Romeo and Juliet Lord Capulet states “…She

hath not seen the change of fourteen years. Ere we may think her ripe to be a bride.” In this quote Lord Capulet is talking about his young daughter Juliet who is not quite fourteen. He is saying that he is not sure if Juliet is ready to be married, and a mother. Lord Capulet in this part of the play is very modern for his time putting his daughter’s thoughts first. Most fathers would have had their daughters married if a man like Paris wanted to marry their daughter. In the twenty-first century it would be considered scandalous to get married at the age Juliet did. Today girls in their early teenage years are still going through school. Most are in the last year of elementary school or the beginning of middle school. According to ABC News most women in Illinois are waiting till they are twenty-seven and half years old before they tie the knot. Also men are waiting till they are twenty-nine point three years old before they marry. ABC News says the cause of this is because today more women and men are going off to college to get their degrees. On top of that women are wanting their careers to take off before they try committing to a relationship. These are the differences between the maturity level when people married in the fifteenth century and in the twenty-first century.
Like the maturity level people marry at, there are also differences between why people marry each other.

In the time of Romeo and Juliet people would marry for the “name”. This meaning that people married to get in an elite class, and for money or income their spouse would bring in according to Gale Student Resources. Many of the marriages in the fifteenth century were also fixed, so in most cases many people did not marry for love in Romeo and Juliet’s time. That is why Romeo and Juliet were considered doing something scandalous on top of the family feud. In the twenty-first century people marry for love today. They often take their time and do not try to rush into a relationship. Also today the parents of the children do not have as much influence as they did then, so people marry today who they

want.
Another different wedding ritual is when people get married.

In the text book it says that Paris “purposes” the idea to get married to Juliet to her father on Monday, and they plan to get married on Thursday of the same week. With a few changes to Lord Capulet’s plan they move the wedding up to Wednesday of that week. Today people normally wait a year after they are engaged to get married. It takes a year to plan the wedding’s festivities, and sometimes longer. Some religious faiths even require couples to go through classes on marriage. These are the differences of when people get married.
In act one scene three of Romeo and Juliet Lord Capulet states “…She hath not seen the change of fourteen years. Ere we may think her ripe to be a bride.” This means that Juliet is not quite fourteen years old and her father is not sure if she is ready to become a wife and mother. There are many differences between how people marry today, and how they married in the time of Romeo and Juliet. Some of the differences are when the people marry, why people marry, and also the level of maturity people marry at. In conclusion in the fifteenth century people rushed their marriages more than

today.