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Romeo And Juliet Relationships

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Love in the 1300s is like a protective boyfriend, except that boyfriend is Lord Capulet and the girlfriend in the relationship is his daughter Juliet. She has a love life influenced by her father until she deeply expresses her love for Romeo in the play Romeo and Juliet. In the play, there are certain standards that Juliet and other women live by. This includes loyalty to their parent’s decisions and serving men. Today, these standards are outrageous because of our new society that recognizes women as equal to men. In the past, daughters were very important to their fathers, which is why respecting your parent’s decisions and opinions was crucial to a mutual relationship between father and daughter. At the beginning, Capulet talks …show more content…

When Paris and Capulet talk about Juliet marrying, in it, Capulet has a line that basically sums up the only reason he wants Juliet to wait to marry. “My child is yet a stranger in the world. She hath not seen the change of fourteen years, Let two more summers wither in their pride Ere we may think her ripe to be a bride.” At the end Capulet acknowledges that Juliet should be given time so that when she marries she is able to have babies. He wants her to be happy, but he also wants this marriage not to go to waste. If she marries and dies in childbirth, then there is no one to continue the legacy. If she is older, she is able to take care of kids while Paris does what he has to do outside of the household again serving her husband. In another household where the Montagues live, Romeo is sulking over a woman he dearly loves and shows this sadness to Benvolio, his cousin. “From love’s weak childish bow, she lives uncharmed. She will not stay the siege of loving terms, Nor bide th' encounter of assailing eyes, Nor ope her lap to saint-seducing gold. Oh, she is rich in beauty, only poor That when she dies, with beauty dies her store… Then she hath sworn that she will still live chaste?” Even though this isn’t aimed towards Juliet, this gives us a perspective of Paris’s point of view. If Juliet doesn’t “open up” like the lady Romeo is sad about, then a baby can’t be formed. Romeo’s love wants to stay a virgin till death and this is surprising because most women choose to have kids with their husbands before they die. Both phrases address the same topic, childbirth. It is the ultimate way for a woman to serve her man and show so much affection. Without it, there is no way to continue the line of

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Lord Capulet’s own free will forced Romeo and Juliet to pursue actions, such as marriage, that inevitably resulted in their deaths, which is demonstrated through Shakespeare’s use of foreshadowing. In Verona, there are expectations for young girls that they marry a fine man and labor babies, especially in high-class families such as Montague and Capulet. In the Capulet family, Lord Capulet has prepared a bridegroom, Paris, for his fourteen year old daughter, Juliet. Although, Juliet refuses to marry Paris because she is secretly already married to Romeo, but her father does not know that. As a result of Juliet expressing that she does not want to marry Paris, Lord Capulet angrily replies to her disobedience, “But fettle your fine joints’ gainst

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Juliet said, “O, bid me leap, rather than marry Paris, From off the battlements of yonder tower; Or walk in thievish ways; or bid me lurk Where serpents are; chain me with roaring bears; Or shut me nightly in a charnel-house, O'er-cover'd quite with dead men's rattling bones, With reeky shanks and yellow chapless skulls;… And I will do it

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Juliet is considering death rather than marrying Paris. This is showing that Paris is like a very deadly drug to Juliet. “Come bitter conduct, come unsavory guide, Thou desperate pilot now at once run on The dashing rocks thy seasick weary bark. Here’s to my love![He drinks] O true apothecary, Thy drugs are quick.

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(4,1, 77-88) When talking to Friar Laurence, Juliet reveals how desperate she was to prevent the marriage to Paris. The invincibility of her despair is illustrated in her words, as she says she would rather be tortured in worst ways possible than get married to another man. Juliet says that she does not care what type of measure she will have to take to succeed in her intentions. Therefore, Juliet’s despair, the fruit of her father’s rage, reigns over her thinking and controls her demeanour.

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Juliet seeks to avoid these arrangements as a result of Lord Capulet's intention for her to wed Paris. While Paris thinks she has been sobbing for her dead cousin Tybalt, she has actually been grieving over Romeo's exile. Paris never even gets the chance to speak to his potential wife, which says a lot about Capulet's choice. He initially thinks she should wait because she is too young, but he eventually decides to be married without talking to Juliet. He disregards her emotions and even goes so far as to threaten to disown her.

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As the speaks to Juliet she says “Marry, that ‘marry’’ is that the very theme I came to talk of. Tell me, daughter Juliet, how stands your position to be married?”(DBQ project: who is to blame, document B). One would think that Lady Capulet would is putting a

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Romeo was reckless and did not love Juliet enough to save her. Lady Capulet had never truly been a mother to Juliet, their relationship was formal and respected, not kind and gentle. Lady Capulet thought she knew what was best for Juliet, she did not however care if Juliet was happy. She insisted Juliet to marry Paris “The valiant Paris seeks you for his love”(DBQ: Project, 2013), a man Juliet did not love.

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Our instruments to melancholy bells,Our wedding cheer to a sad burial feast.” This clearly states that he is only worried about the wedding preparations and mentions the wedding several times which shows his attention is more on the wedding than it is on her death. Paris was the least affected about Juliet. His relationship with Juliet was forced upon her and he knew it. However he did not truly love her and only wanted her for the family fortune and the reputation.

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That makes Juliet concerned because she likes Romeo. First, he tells Juliet to marry Paris which she doesn’t want to happen. This is found in Act 3 scene 5. Second, Lord Capulet rages at Juliet when he notices that she doesn’t want to marry Paris. He then tells Juliet that he will never see her again.

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Take thou this vial, being then in bed”(Act 4, Scene 1, Line 91-93). Juliet goes to the extreme by preferring to pretend to be dead so she does not have to marry Paris. These ‘wrong’ actions are all because Juliet sees the value in who Romeo is and that the idea of Paris is empty in the sight of love “What’s in a name? That which we call a rose By any other name would smell as sweet.” (Act 2, Scene 2, line 43-44).

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This is arguably the most well-known love story in history. In this play, a young boy named Romeo, from the house of Montague, falls in love with a 13 year old girl named Juliet from the Capulet house. However, just before meeting Juliet, Romeo was mourning over Rosaline, with whom he was madly in love, even though she did not love him back. Romeo speaks of his love with his cousin, saying, “Benvolio: ‘Be ruled by me: forget to think of her.’ Romeo: ‘ O, teach me how I should forget to think!’

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Although the most popular relationship of the piece, Romeo and Juliet’s courtship in “Romeo and Juliet” was arguably one of the most unhealthy relationships of the play, and one of the most unhealthy in general. In this play, “Romeo and Juliet”, written by William Shakespeare, there are several examples of both good and bad relationships. When these two young lovers see each other at a party, they immediately become attracted to each other. However, they are from opposing families, with Romeo a part of the Montagues and Juliet a member of the Capulets. This family rival leads to Romeo tirelessly pursuing Juliet and ultimately, the tragic death of both of them.

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( II, ii, l. 121-122) She even agrees to get married to Romeo the very next day. Juliet’s rebellious streak is yet again evident when she says she will not marry Paris. In the patriarchal society that she lives in, she is expected to obey her father's . When Juliet says that Paris "shall not make me there a joyful bride".

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