Comparing Adults In Shakespeare's Romeo And Juliet
HOW ARE ADULTS PRESENTED IN ROMEO AND JULIET?
There is a large difference between youths and adults in Romeo and Juliet. The adults often make emotionally driven decisions, often ones that go back on what they have previously said. An example of this is Lord Capulet, who changes his mind on the marriage of his daughter. This drastically changes the plot of the story and could have been the reason for the death of Romeo and Juliet.
They see the world in a different light to the youths.
The younger men in the Montague and Capulet families love to fight, and would happily insult the other family in order to start a fight. However, Lord Capulet, and maybe Lord Montague, is less happy to begin the fight, although he would try to join in, like …show more content…
When Lord Capulet says that Juliet is too young to marry Paris he makes a indirect reference to his wife. "And too soon marred are those so early made" who we later find out married Lord Capulet when very young.
Lord Capulet changes after Tybalt dies. Maybe because he loves Juliet so much he wants to help her, but instead he makes her life worse. He tries to cheer her up -believing that she cries over the death of Tybalt- by moving the date of the wedding forward to three days time - Thursday.
When Juliet refuses to marry Paris, lord Capulet becomes very violent, and shows another side of himself. He threatens to hit her and says "unworthy as she is, that we have wrought / So worthy a gentleman to be her bride?"
He goes on to say that he was cursed when she was born, and then insults the nurse by calling her a "mumbling fool!"
The nurse is used as comic relief in the play. She is bawdy and comes from a lower class than the majority of the rest of the cast. Simply the fact she is from a lower class makes her slightly funnier, and she often jumbles up her words - "I desire some confidence with you" and speaks in prose. She gets on better with Juliet than Lord or Lady Capulet, and so Juliet confides in the
There is a large difference between youths and adults in Romeo and Juliet. The adults often make emotionally driven decisions, often ones that go back on what they have previously said. An example of this is Lord Capulet, who changes his mind on the marriage of his daughter. This drastically changes the plot of the story and could have been the reason for the death of Romeo and Juliet.
They see the world in a different light to the youths.
The younger men in the Montague and Capulet families love to fight, and would happily insult the other family in order to start a fight. However, Lord Capulet, and maybe Lord Montague, is less happy to begin the fight, although he would try to join in, like …show more content…
When Lord Capulet says that Juliet is too young to marry Paris he makes a indirect reference to his wife. "And too soon marred are those so early made" who we later find out married Lord Capulet when very young.
Lord Capulet changes after Tybalt dies. Maybe because he loves Juliet so much he wants to help her, but instead he makes her life worse. He tries to cheer her up -believing that she cries over the death of Tybalt- by moving the date of the wedding forward to three days time - Thursday.
When Juliet refuses to marry Paris, lord Capulet becomes very violent, and shows another side of himself. He threatens to hit her and says "unworthy as she is, that we have wrought / So worthy a gentleman to be her bride?"
He goes on to say that he was cursed when she was born, and then insults the nurse by calling her a "mumbling fool!"
The nurse is used as comic relief in the play. She is bawdy and comes from a lower class than the majority of the rest of the cast. Simply the fact she is from a lower class makes her slightly funnier, and she often jumbles up her words - "I desire some confidence with you" and speaks in prose. She gets on better with Juliet than Lord or Lady Capulet, and so Juliet confides in the