Romeo And Juliet Relationships

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

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