Romeo And Juliet Essay

In The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet, the author, William Shakespeare creates many diverse characters in the play to add more meaning to the story itself. He creates Juliet and Lord Capulet to express their father-daughter dynamic and gives them similar characteristics to show that relationship. He gives them similar behaviors like acting based on making another character happy and getting worked up when in a desperate situation. In the middle of Act III, Juliet has been alerted about Tybalt’s death and Romeo’s banishment, then falls into huge despair. Capulet’s behavior shows that he only wants Juliet to feel happy again and agrees to have Paris marry his daughter in Act III, Scene vi, lines 12-18 – “Sir, Paris, I will make a desperate tender/

I think she will be ruled/ In all respects by me…I doubt it not./ Wife, go you to her ere you go to bed;/ Acquaint her here of my son Paris’ love…” Capulet has already said before that he will let Juliet decide if she would like to marry Paris and would not force anything. But after seeing Juliet in despair, Capulet wants Juliet to feel happy and changes his decision that he would let Paris be with his daughter. Changing his decision goes to show how much he cares about Juliet and how much he would do to make her happy. Juliet also acts similarly, but her care is directed towards Romeo in Act VI, Scene iii, lines 15-58 – “What if this mixture do not work at all?/… What if it be a poison which the friar/ Subtly hath minist’red to have me dead,/…How if, when I am laid into the tomb,/ I wake up before the time that Romeo/ Come to redeem me?...” Juliet knows all the consequences

Nearing the end of Act V, Scene v, lines 143-145, Capulet expresses anger when he finds out that Juliet is not happy with his attempt to make her happy – “How, Will she none? Doth she not give is thanks?/ Is she not proud? Doth she not count her blest,/ Unworthy as she is, that we have wrought/ So worthy a gentleman to be her bride?” Capulet went out of his way to find Juliet a perfect match for a husband and is finally happy that he can make her feel better with this news after her long days of weeping. But instead, he is surprised by Juliet’s upbringing that she doesn’t want to marry Paris and gets angry. Juliet shows similar features of getting worked up, but instead with stress. Nearing the beginning of Act VI, Juliet tells the Friar to give her a solution to prevent her from marrying the one she does not love, then is offered a potion that would potentially be the answer to her problem – “Give me, give me! O, tell not me of fear!” Hinting from her repetition, the reader can assume that she is in a time of need and will take any solution no matter how dangerous it may seem. Juliet gets worked up in desperation of trying to stop the marriage while Capulet gets worked up in desperation trying to make her happy & allowing the marriage. This goes to show that even though their arguments, they still exhibit similar characteristics – which goes to show their deep family