Parent Relationships In Shakespeare's Romeo And Juliet

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

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

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