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How Did Lord Capulet Change In Romeo And Juliet

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Secondly, Lord Capulet was also a hasty character who throughout the play was too eager to marry his daughter to Paris and indirectly caused her betrayal and death. Initially, Paris told Lord Capulet that he wanted to marry Juliet as soon as possible. At first, Lord Capulet told him to wait but then changed his mind all of a sudden forcing his daughter to marry Paris “O' Thursday let it be: o' Thursday, tell her,she shall be married to this noble earl.”(Act 3,4) not thinking of his daughter’s feeling. When Juliet fake agreed on the marriage, Capulet moved the date a day sooner due to his excitement about her agreement “Send for the county. Go tell him of this.I’ll have this knot knit up tomorrow morning.”(Act 4,2) therefore, interfering with his daughter’s fake death plan. Lastly, Lord Capulet’s hastiness was outline the day Paris went to Friar’s to talk about getting married with Juliet “My father Capulet will have it so, and I am nothing slow to slack his …show more content…

In beginning, Romeo’s change of love from Rosaline to Juliet was to quick. He was crying the day he learned that Rosaline did not reciprocate his love, however the night he met Juliet, he fell in love instantly with her and even accepted her marriage proposal “... Now I’ll go see my priest, to ask for his help and tell him about my good luck.”(Act2,2) talking about going to see Friar Lawrence to talk about the wedding. Also, when Romeo went to Friar to ask him to marry Juliet the next morning after he met her, Friar Lawrence expressed his disappointment on Romeo’s haste by saying “Wisely and slow they stumble that run fast”(Act2,3) yet accepted to marry the couple. During the ceremony, Friar commented again on the couple’s haste saying “...Therefore love moderately. long love doth so. too swift arrives as tardy as too slow”(2,6) but Romeo does not listen to Friar’s advice and just follow his heart without thinking of the

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