Romeo And Juliet Argumentative Essay

Athan Hammerbeck Freshman English 6/6/2024 Capulet’s Fault Argumentative Essay.

Lord Capulet is exclusively responsible for the deaths of Romeo and Juliet. In the play Romeo and Juliet, written by William Shakespeare, Lord Capulet is Juliet’s father and head of the Capulet family. Her lover Romeo, however, is a member of the Montague family. Juliet and Romeo meet at a party, fall in love, and eventually die together in the span of a couple days. Lord Capulet had a huge influence on their eventual suicide. These tragic events could have been easily avoided had Capulet been a better father and leader of his family. Because he pressures Juliet to marry Paris, keeps the conflict between Capulets and Montagues alive, and indirectly pressures his

Instead of letting her choose who she wants to marry, he decides her spouse based on how rich, influential, and famous he is. Horrendously, Lord Capulet says “Hang thee, young baggage. Disobedient wretch. I tell thee what-get thee to church a Thursday or never look me in the face” (Shakespeare 3.5 161-163). He is forcing her to marry the County of Paris or leave the family. Lord Capulet's actions are very unfair, not to mention overbearing. Capulet doesn't even give her the option not to marry, he wants exactly what he wants, with no room for compromise. In fact, Capulet also states, “Monday, my Lord. Monday -. Ha, Ha! I love this! Well, Wednesday is too soon. A Thursday, let it be. a Thursday, tell her” (Shakespeare 3.4, 19-20). With no prior notice, he is making sure Juliet gets married within the week. Capulet thinks that marrying her off will comfort her about the death of Tybalt, at her lover Romeo’s hands. Tybalt is her cousin, but Capulet is so blind to his daughter’s suffering that he will make her do something that will bring even more distress to an already traumatic experience. Due to her distress, Juliet attempts to escape and join Romeo in his exile, but her plan ends in her and Romeo’s deaths. Capulet’s pressure caused these lovers to kill themselves rather than be separated by life and death, an astonishing example of Capulet’s

Learning of Juliet’s hesitancy to marry in general, and Paris specifically, he gets extremely angry at her. Lord Capulet rages at Juliet “God’s bread”! it makes me mad.and then to have a wretched puling fool, a whining mammet in her fortune's tender, to answer, I'll not wed, I cannot love, I am too young, I pray you pardon me” (Shakespeare 3.5 177-186). Capulet threatens to disown his daughter if she doesn’t marry the County of Paris. Making someone do anything they don't want to, that won't greatly benefit them, is wrong. Forcing your daughter to MARRY someone when she is hesitant to marry at all is even worse. Lord Capulet is completely blind to his daughter’s suffering and is, in general, an oblivious father. In fact, when Capulet says to Paris “Sir, Paris, I will make a desperate cry for my child’s love. I think she will be ruled in all respects by me; any more” (Shakespeare 3.4 12-14). In this example, Capulet goes so far as to say that his daughter will be happy with Paris, and that he (her father) is giving Juliet’s love to him. Essentially, Capulet is volunteering his daughter to marry Paris, who is related to the Royal Family, simply to increase his standing in the town of