Romeo And Juliet Lady Capulet Quotes Analysis

Women of the middle ages ran the households. Women of higher class held more responsibilities and therefore often left the duties of their children to a nurse. The responsibilities that came with running a household made some mothers to be distant from their children.(www.thefinertimes.com) Lady capulet in the play Romeo and Juliet demonstrates this quote to apply to the way she mothered her child. Throughout the play, Lady Capulet exhibits to be distant, demanding, yet caring of her family despise her poised attitude. A theme that Shakespeare perhaps was trying to get across was “ No matter how much is cared about a person; If not there for that person and ask them to do exactly what is wished, then there is no guarantee that that person will

do what was anticipated.”
To begin the development of the theme; Lady Capulet’s distant relationship with her daughter Juliet is the best initiation point.

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

teaches.
To deepen into the character of Lady Capulet and how the traits she has affect the theme that she teaches; her demanding way of being adds to it. We can see Lady Capulet is demanding very of Juliet early in the play. In Act 1 Scene 3, when talking to Juliet about Paris, she tells Juliet to think of marriage now despite having just heard from her that she does not wish to be married. Another time when Lady Capulet shows to be demanding is in Scene 5 of Act 4 when she just tells Juliet that she will marry Paris in line 115. Later in that same scene she demands Juliet to speak to Juliet’s father after telling about her plans about marriage. Although there are only a few times when Lady Capulet is demanding, these times are usually to what she thinks will only bring benefits to her family.
Despite the two previous negative traits Lady Capulet showed to be very caring of her family. In Act 1 Scene 1, she shows to care about her husband in line 69 where she tells her husband that he needs a crutch instead of a sword. This might have been a harsh to tell her husband but if seen in a different perspective she could be watching out for her husband because she is telling him he is too old to fight and he should take care of himself instead of going out to fight. In act 1 scene 3 when she was telling her daughter to marry Paris, Lady Capulet decided this was beneficial for her daughter because she lists many good things about Paris that Juliet might like in the metaphor in lines 80-95. In Act 3 scene 1, Lady Capulet showed a deep grievance at the death of Tybalt in lines 139-143. She says “Tybalt, my cousin! O my brother’s child! O Price! O cousin! O husband! O, the blood is spilled of my dear kinsman.” These lines show that lady Capulet really cared about Tybalt through the anguish felt behind these words. In act 4 scene 5 she says “You are too hot.” to her husband meaning he has bad temperance. She also might have said this to help Juliet a bit who is kneeling in tears. But despite all the things she told her family to do, her distance impeded them to occur. Juliet looked at Romeo instead of Paris and fell in love with him. Lord Capulet still fought in Scene 1 and lashed out at Juliet in Act 4 Scene 5. It seems that all the things that Lady Capulet requested had the exact opposite occur.
Lady Capulet did show to care about her family throughout the play. She always was associated with family crisis among the Capulets. In Spite of this, Lady Capulet did seem to be apart from her family in the most crucial moments. She relied on others to handle those moments or certain actions to be done for her; such as the nurse taking care of Juliet. Lady Capulet kept her distance from Juliet and only came forth to her when she wanted to discuss marriage in the play. Juliet did not do what her mother insisted she did for marriage instead she married a man Lady Capulet would protest against which lead her to her death. Perhaps if Lady Capulet would have been more involved with Juliet, she would have had a stronger impact in the choices and prevented her death. This leads to the theme “ No matter how much is cared about a person; If not there for that person and ask them to do exactly what is wished, then there is no guarantee that that person will do what was anticipated.” Lady Capulet suffered the consequence of being a distant mother through Juliet’s death.