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Parent Relationships In Shakespeare's Romeo And Juliet

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“From forth the fatal loins of these two foes, A pair of star-crossed lovers take their life, Whose misadventure piteous overthrows Doth with their death bury their parents’ strife…” A quote from William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet is a story about two feuding families: the Montagues and the Capulets. The animosity between these two families caused many problems between the relationships of the parents and their children including disobedience, and discourtesy toward each other. Throughout the love story it doesn't state much about Romeo's parents, Lady Montague and Father Montague, but the readers can conclude that they are very protective and very compelling. Readers could also see that Juliet's father, Lord Capulet, and her mother, Lady Capulet, were also protective over their daughter, and towards the beginning were more patient with …show more content…

As the reader got towards the end they could definitely start see the miscommunications between the parents and their children, and could then start to see the more obnoxious side of the two families.

Juliet's relationship between her and her parents is very complicated. Towards the beginning of the story her dad and mother seems very patient with Juliet's decision to not marry yet. But then shortly after her cousin Tybalt's death, it became clear that Lady and Lord Capulet wanted their daughter to marry Prince Paris as soon as possible. Juliet refuses to marry due to the fact that she is already married to her one and only, Romeo, the one of which her family hates. Her father is distraught unto which he has prepared a wealthy young man for his lovely daughter, and she has pardoned him. On

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