“I tell thee what: get thee to church o’ Thursday,/Or never after look me in the face.” (Shakespeare, 3.5.167). This forceful quote, said by Capulet in William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, portrays the conditional relationship between one of the main characters, Juliet, and her father. Through many furious actions, the Capulets have slowly tarnished their relationship with Juliet and ruined the trust they had. Capulet shames Juliet for not wanting to marry Paris on Thursday, a man she does not love, making her afraid to tell him who she truly adores: Romeo Montague, from the rival family. Capulet tells Juliet to never look at him again if she continues to refuse to marry Paris, only pushing her towards more rebellion to love who she wishes. …show more content…
This ongoing feud between the Capulets and Montagues drives Juliet to take things into her own hands through a fake suicide, assisted by Friar Laurence with a narcotic. Through a series of miscommunications, the plan never makes it to Romeo, so he truly believes that his one love is dead, and drinks poison to be with her in heaven. When she awakes from her drug-induced slumber, she takes Romeo’s dagger and stabs herself, finally closing the story of these tragic lovers. While many things and people played a role in the demise of these two children, the families themselves are ultimately responsible due to their unwillingness to listen and the conditional love that they threaten to take away at any …show more content…
Juliet cries at his feet to listen to her views and let her love who she wants to, but he silences her. For instance, Juliet pleads, “Good father, I beseech you on my knees,/Hear me with patience but to speak a word (Shakespeare, 3.5.167).” For her to be listened to, she must throw herself at her father’s feet and beg him to understand. However, Capulet is not pleased or moved by her display and scolds her by saying, “Hang thee, young baggage, disobedient wretch!/. Speak not; reply not; do not answer me (3.5.167).” Capulet immediately shuts down the conversation by insulting Juliet and silencing her. Her pleas fall on deaf ears as she realizes that her father will not listen and attempt to understand her point of view, no matter how hard she tries. She hears her own father call her baggage and a wretch just for loving Romeo. Since he refuses to listen to her, he is showing her that he is not a safe person to confide in. His temper makes him unstable and makes Juliet apprehensive to tell him anything, hence why she forms her suicide plan with Friar Laurence. Thus, her father’s stubbornness towards his daughter shows her that he is not going to listen to her pleas and that he is not going to try and understand her, pushing her to take charge and end up regretting it. Furthermore, not only does Lord Capulet ignore his daughter's wishes, but he threatens to take away her
The Death of Romeo and Juliet and Who is to Blame Romeo and Juliet is a tragedy by William Shakespeare, in which a young boy and girl fall in love and commit suicide. They come from 2 different families which have a deadly feud against one another. Romeo goes to a masked ball at the Capulet's household where he falls in love with Juliet. He then proposes to her after the party in secret at Juliet's balcony. Romeo then arranges a secret weeding with Friar Lawrence and Juliet tells the Nurse.
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
In Act IV, scene III of The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet, Juliet is forced to make a decision; take a sleeping potion gifted to her by Friar Laurence and risk possibly being stuck in the Capulet family tomb, or marry Paris. To her, marrying Paris is not an option and so she drinks the vile. Although, before consuming the Friar’s remedy, Juliet expresses her worries in her soliloquy. To do this, Shakespeare manipulates imagery and the rhetorical device of questioning to reveal his main character’s deepest and darkest fears.
The house of the Capulets invites loyalty among the people but also hot tempers. Through the inability to understand Juliet and put aside their anger they may have been the cause for the events that transpired during the story. Lord Capulet, patriarch of the Capulets, is a man that demands respect and has quite the temper. When his character is introduced he is a reasonable father, taking Juliet’s age into consideration the first time he is approached by Paris about marriage. He allows Romeo to take part of his party after Tybalt discovers him. This seems to take a complete 180 later on when Juliet disobeys her father, after her cousin’s death, he threatens to hurt her. “I tell thee what: get thee to church o' Thursday, or never after look me in the face. Speak not. Reply not. Do not answer me. My fingers itch.” Act 3, scene 5,
When Juliet is told of her parents plans to wed her to Count Paris, she expresses her reluctance to accept the proposal. Juliet, hoping her parents would understand and consider her desires, is shocked when Lord Capulet reacts in pure rage and says, “...Hang thee, young baggage! Disobedient wretch! / I tell thee what: get thee to church o’ Thursday, / Or never after look me in the face. / Speak not. Reply not. Do not answer” (3.5.160-164). With greed blinding his eyesight, Juliet is no longer seen by Capulet as a human with a heart and soul, but is rather an object, with a price tag hung over her head. Lord Capulet’s inhuman outlook upon her banishes any hope Juliet had of her parents understanding her relationship with Romeo, and drives her to take risky decisions in order to fulfill her heart. The derogatory, and demeaning language Lord Capulet uses to express his anger over Juliet’s defiance of marriage, can be clearly attributed as the sole cause of Juliet’s desperation to escape the grasp of Lord Capulet and take the perilous decisions to wager death in order to find sanctuary in
He did this by yelling at Juliet screaming, “Hang thee, young baggage! Disobedient wretch! I tell thee what: get thee to church o’ Thursday, or never after look me in the face. Speak not. Reply not. Do not answer me. My fngers itch. – Wife, we scarce thought us blest that God had lent us but this only child, but now I see this one is one too much and that we have a curse in having her. Out on her, hilding!” (III, V, 160-168). Lord Capulet accosted Juliet because he was extremely angry for her not wanting to marry Paris. However, by doing this, Juliet needed to find a way out of the wedding; she would not acquiesce and marry Paris, it could not be anyone but Romeo. Capulet further threatened Juliet saying, "An you be mine, I 'll give you to my friend; And you be not, hang, beg, starve, die in the streets," (V, 3, ln. 191-192). By saying this Capulet threatened rejection from him forever, which terrified Juliet so much that she would rather kill herself than be
Romeo furthermore experiences loss in Act 5 Scene 3- the feeling of sorrow towards his newlywed wife Juliet. In this scene, Romeo delivers a monologue to what he believes is Juliet’s corpse. The audience can note that Romeo’s melodramatic nature once again surfaces with this speech, using light and dark imagery (which is a reoccurring theme throughout the play) to poetically pronounce the final soliloquy to his beloved. Somewhat irrationally, Romeo suggests that “unsubstantial death” is “amorous” because Juliet looked so “fair”- believing that a physical form of death has stolen Juliet from him to pursue her as their own lover because she looked so attractive. This absurd notion presents to the audience how Romeo’s reaction to this bereavement
Who would be willing to die for their loved ones? Romeo and Juliet would and did. Romeo and Juliet’s love and death brought two families together who could not even remember the origin of their hate. When the parents saw what their children's love for each other, they realized that their fighting had only led to suffering and insoluble conflict. Romeo and Juliet loved each other to an extent that they killed themselves rather than live apart. They did it with no hiatus. Juliet says before she kills herself, “O happy dagger, This is thy sheath. There rust and let me die.”( 5, 3, 182-183) demonstrating how she would rather die than not be with him.
Juliet is honest with herself. Although she is aware of how dangerous it is to be interested in Romeo, she wishes to ask him to “Deny thy father, and refuse thy name;/ Or, if thou wilt not, be but sworn my lover,/ And I’ll no longer be a Capulet” (II, ii,
Lines 36-39 and 41-52 of Act 2; Scene 2, are significant to me because they have distinct levels of understanding and meaning to the play. Line 41 goes back to the original conflict that Romeo and Juliet are from feuding houses, the Capulets and the Montagues. It shows that Juliet does not want her family to fight the Montagues, and that she believes it is ridiculous because it is not the people they hate and fight it is their name, Montague. The section I chose reveals that the kids, Romeo and Juliet, feel that they can not have what they want because of the parents’ feuds. It makes you feel as helpless as they are, because you know that with their parents’ permission to get married, they would be happy.
Capulet forcing Juliet to marry Paris causes the whole conflict between Romeo and Juliet’s death. Juliet’s father wants her to get married to Paris, so she will be happy after the tragedy of Tybalt's death: Hang thee, young baggage! Disobedient wretch. I tell thee what: get thee to church on Thursday, Or never after look me in the face. Speak not, reply not, do not answer me!
I tell thee what: get thee to church o' Thursday, Or never after look me in the face.” (3.5.160-163). By forcing Juliet into marriage, she becomes desperate and causes her to begin considering death as a way out. "I'll to the friar, to know his remedy; If all else fail, I have power to die." 3.5.241-242.
“But soft, what light through yonder window breaks?/ It is the east, and Juliet is the sun/ Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon/ Who is already sick and pale with grief/ That thou her maid art far more fair than she/ Be not her maid since she is envious/ Her vestal livery is but sick and green/ And none but fools do wear it. Cast it off!/ It is my lady. Oh, it is my love/ Oh, that she knew she were!” (Shakespeare II ii 2-11).
Juliet’s arranged marriage with Paris, as well as the ancient feud between Capulets and Montagues, eventually contributed to the deaths of their children. In Act 1 Scene 2, Paris asks Capulet, ‘But now, my lord, what say you to my suit?’ which shows that Capulet and Paris are discussing Juliet’s possible marriage without consulting her, perhaps implying they think she is too nave to decide on her future. They are arranging her marriage for her, which implies that men are very controlling of women’s lives, especially those of their daughters. The scene establishes how Juliet is subject to parental influence, and how she is very constrained since her father can force her to marry whoever he wants. Juliet’s status as a woman leaves her with no power or choice in the decision of whom she should marry.
Marxist heritage has had a waxing and waning prevalence in the historical context of political anthropology. One of the most controversial thoughts in this area of study is that class struggle is one of the main causes for advancements of political systems (Gaido 2013). This paper is seeking how the increasing role of environmental non-governmental organizations (ENGOs) in the political realm is achieving a louder voice for the economically weaker classes through a case study of Warren County in the United States. Thus, as a result, as poorer communities are mobilizing they are successfully able to combat against adverse environmental issues that could not be achieved through the traditional state structure.