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Parent Relationships In Shakespeare's Romeo And Juliet

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The tragedy/love story of Romeo and Juliet has the underlying theme of family, one of the main ones being the relationship between the children and their parents. In this story the parents love for their children seems to be second to the hatred in their feud, at least until the end of the story. Juliet’s mother has a relatively close bond to Juliet because she is very young and Juliet is an only child so all attention goes to her, however the nurse has the closest bond to Juliet seeing as she nursed Juliet and was around her her whole life. Juliet's father doesn’t seem that close to her, he seems to feel that Juliet is entitled, because she is, so she should be grateful for everything that's happened to her and should be obedient her …show more content…

The story doesn’t really have interactions between the the parents and child but more of reactions later to each others actions. When Romeo is banished Lady Montague passes away because she is so distraught about it. Also in the beginning of the story the parents show concern for Romeo when he is acting all depressed and they ask Benvolio to find out what’s wrong. The reason why there aren’t scenes with the parents talking to Romeo is because he is a guy and they don’t need much …show more content…

Romeo and Juliet never actually told their parents about their marriage or them even meeting their overwhelming three times. Their secrecy is what lead to their demise; because if they had just told their parents the situations leading up to Juliet's plan to pretend like she died. Romeo’s parents never really got into his business, he just did his own thing with his boys and they never questioned it. In a way I guess Juliet was rebellious when she showed her reluctant feelings towards having to marry Paris, but she could’ve just told her parents then she was already married to someone. So in conclusion, they aren’t rebellious in today’s modern sense because they didn’t outright fight their parents over silly things like most teens like to do

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Both families, especially the Capulet’s, were very unsupportive of their children. Lord Capulet was going to go as far as disowning his own daughter because she did not want to marry Paris, a man twice her age.(DBQ Doc. D “Disobedient Wretch”) Also, the prologue states that both families have “fatal loins,” meaning that the feud between the two families will lead to their children’s deaths. Romeo and Juliet could not even tell their parents about their wedding or their love because they were afraid that they would disapprove and punish them, even though they were their own parents.

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To begin with, the two families were in a feud. The grudge between the two families made Romeo and Juliet want to hide their love to prevent any further damage to the broken relationship. It was clear that because of the feud, both families would not approve of the bond between the two children. Juliet's father claimed that he would disown her if she didn't marry who he wanted and will disapprove of anyone else. The family riot caused the children to continue their doings in secrecy to avert problematic situations.

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To begin with, the grudge between the two families, Montague and Capulet, resulted in the children making their love discrete. It was clear that because of the feud, both families would not approve of the act. Juliet's father claims he will disown her if she doesn't marry the designated person who he deemed right to become her husband. He gave off the impression that he will disapprove of anyone else. The family riot has caused Romeo and Juliet's love to continue in secrecy which lead to foolish deeds and unfortunate death.

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Juliet and Romeo’s parents expect them to loathe members from the opposing family, so when Romeo and Juliet fall in love, they react by defying their own families. Juliet passionately tells Romeo to “‘[d]eny thy father, and refuse thy name. /Or if thou wilt not, be but sworn [her] love,/ [a]nd [she will] no longer be a Capulet’” (2, 2, 34-36), so she can solidify her approval in the scheme to ignore their parents’ wishes. Realizing the complication of their love due to their families’ hatred, Romeo and Juliet feel as though betraying their family is the only option they have in

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In many instances when young love is present, parents can get in the way of relationships, which sometimes leads to the fall of young lovers. In Romeo and Juliet, By William Shakespeare, this example is shown when Romeo and Juliet fall in love despite the hundreds of years-long family feuds. While in the midst of all of this parents' relationship, the two lovers decide to live their lives recklessly and make impulsive decisions. While Juliet's parents aren't the only reason that the two lovers fell in the end, the relationship between Juliet and her parents outweighs other factors. First, they moved the wedding date up a day after the suspected grieving of Tybalt, secondly, her parents kept a feud that they didn't even know why they were funding which forced Juliet to marry Romeo in Secret, and lastly, they never saw the sign of Juliet's rebellious

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Had both families resolved their conflict, maybe Romeo and Juliet would have been able to publicly be together in front of their families and overall have a happier outcome. Essentially, the last reason would be that they are simply too young and inexperienced. Being young, they are more likely to act impulsively and not think about the long-term consequences of their actions. An example of this is when Juliet is heavily influenced to take the potion Friar Laurence had given her to delay the

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A main reason Juliet’s parents are to blame is because of their hatred of the Montagues. Their conflict started a long time ago, and there was no real reason to nurture it. An example of this is when Tybalt and Benvolio fight at the beginning of the play, where Tybalt says, “peace? I hate the word as I hate hell, all Montagues, and thee” (i, i, 6, 71-72). Tybalt is a cousin of Juliet and Benvolio is a cousin of Romeo, so they don’t like each other just because of their families.

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First of all, you need to know that Romeo and Juliet's parents were sworn enemies. This caused a lot of tension between the two families. So imagine what reaction they would have if they found out about Romeo and Juliet's love. Act 2 scene 2 line 69 says “If they do see thee, they will murder thee”, we can see that Juliet believes that they will kill Romeo if their parents find out. This allows us to see how their parents didn’t have the trust of their children.

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Parents. The people who are responsible for giving life and loving their children unconditionally and setting an example for them. Parents can also be strong in their decisions, not listen to their children, and instead, go off on their arrogant ways “knowing what's best for their children”. All these characteristics describe Romeo Montague and Juliet Capulet’s parents: two families who despise each other. Filled with so much hatred that they even breathe each other's anger and disgust for each other.

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Then leading to banishment of Romeo because he was enraged and killed Tybalt. Readers can connect to this because once in life one has had a love. All because the parents simply hated each other and unknowingly causing their lovely children and unlovely demise. It reminds me of the 1997 film Titanic about a man who offers his fiancé an adventurous life. They board the Titanic only to sink to their deaths.

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— Come, madam, let’s away.” (Shakespeare 1.1.159-162). This quote shows that by letting a friend talk to him, Romeo's parents did the right thing. They knew Romeo would be more comfortable talking to a friend than to a parent. Romeo's parents knew what to do in that situation, and when Romeo almost got killed because of vengeance.

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Clearly the family feud causes Romeo and Juliet to kill themselves with their love still a secret. They wouldn’t have had to lie if the parents would have just been more involved with what the kids were doing. The Friar and Nurse who weren't even family knew more about them than the parents. Based on hard evidence it is clear that Shakespeare chose the theme of Family for his story. Whether family is the theme or not one thing is for sure, in a literary world where romance falls untimely between two young lovers, with a feud between their families, the outcome is never a happy

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Another reason why the parents play an important role is because they fight with each other which makes things more complicated and if the feud didn’t happen in the first place none of this would of happened. Towards the beginning of the play, the Montagues and Capulets get in a fight which has a big part in the story because the Prince says, “ if ever disturb our streets again, your lives shall pay the forfeit. ”(I,i,92-94) This has a big part in the story because if the Prince didn’t say this then when Romeo killed Tybalt then he wouldn’t of gotten banished, which would of saved many lives and the whole conflict would of been avoided.

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