Lord Capulet, Juliet, and Friar Laurence: Pawns In Emotions’ Game of Chess In William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, emotions (powerful feelings) hold special mastery. Lord Capulet, Juliet, and Friar Laurence allow their emotions to annihilate their thinking and control their behaviour. Behaviour refers to one’s actions. To begin, Lord Capulet allows his anger to overpower his thinking and behaviour. In the beginning of the play, Lord Capulet is immune to Count Paris’s eagerness to marry his daughter and says that Juliet is too young to get married. While negotiating with Paris, Capulet demonstrates value for daughter’s consent as well: “My will to her consent is but a part; An she agree, within her scope of choice lies my consent and fair …show more content…
(4,1, 77-88) When talking to Friar Laurence, Juliet reveals how desperate she was to prevent the marriage to Paris. The invincibility of her despair is illustrated in her words, as she says she would rather be tortured in worst ways possible than get married to another man. Juliet says that she does not care what type of measure she will have to take to succeed in her intentions. Therefore, Juliet’s despair, the fruit of her father’s rage, reigns over her thinking and controls her demeanour. Finally, Friar Laurence lets his emotions repress his thinking and affect his behaviour. When Romeo comes to Friar Laurence to ask for help and wails his exile, he threatens to kill himself in the midst of his despair, just like Juliet. Friar Laurence, who is not emotionally labile like Romeo, advises him to accept his sentence, and be grateful for it. Friar even reasons with Romeo to be rational and chides him for being emotional by comparing him to a spoiled little girl. The law that threaten’d death becomes thy