Lord Capulet A Good Father Analysis
How far Shakespeare presents Lord Capulet as a good father in this whole conversation.
Part 1)
In Act 1 Scene 2 Capulet is portrayed as a considerate, responsible and loving father who is concerned about what is best for his daughter and see her as more than just an ‘object’ to be married off which isn’t common as it was a very patriarchal society. By displaying these forms of affection the audiences’ first impression of him is that he is a good father.
In Act 1 Scene 2 a noable young kinsmen of the Prince, asking Capulet for his daughter's hand in marriage. Capulet responds to Paris and tells him that Juliet has “not seen the change of fourteen years", he also describes Juliet as not yet “ripe to be a bride”, this implies that Capulet believes that Juliet is too young for marriage, which in that society would seem slightly unusual as 14 is not an early age at which to get married, by saying this Tybalt respodes with ”younger than [Juliet} are happy mothers made”, which again shows that girls younger than Juliet are already mothers and that Juliet is not too ‘young’ for marriage, but when Capulet responds with a continued agrarian metaphor (lines 11-12, relating to land) “ and too …show more content…
Likewise, Capulet shows that he is a good father and that Juliet means a lot to him when he asserts that “ [Juliet] is [his] hopeful lady of [his] earth” which intimates that he treasures Juliet as she is firstly his only living child but also the hope in which the world turns around, by this as she is his only hope in which the his entire world turns around she must mean a lot to him which indicates that he does not see her as just ‘a woman (whose role was to marry and have children) but as his only hope which he must protect meaning that he must be a good father to protect his last and only child and his only hope which his entire world turns around as if he does not his entire world will
Part 1)
In Act 1 Scene 2 Capulet is portrayed as a considerate, responsible and loving father who is concerned about what is best for his daughter and see her as more than just an ‘object’ to be married off which isn’t common as it was a very patriarchal society. By displaying these forms of affection the audiences’ first impression of him is that he is a good father.
In Act 1 Scene 2 a noable young kinsmen of the Prince, asking Capulet for his daughter's hand in marriage. Capulet responds to Paris and tells him that Juliet has “not seen the change of fourteen years", he also describes Juliet as not yet “ripe to be a bride”, this implies that Capulet believes that Juliet is too young for marriage, which in that society would seem slightly unusual as 14 is not an early age at which to get married, by saying this Tybalt respodes with ”younger than [Juliet} are happy mothers made”, which again shows that girls younger than Juliet are already mothers and that Juliet is not too ‘young’ for marriage, but when Capulet responds with a continued agrarian metaphor (lines 11-12, relating to land) “ and too …show more content…
Likewise, Capulet shows that he is a good father and that Juliet means a lot to him when he asserts that “ [Juliet] is [his] hopeful lady of [his] earth” which intimates that he treasures Juliet as she is firstly his only living child but also the hope in which the world turns around, by this as she is his only hope in which the his entire world turns around she must mean a lot to him which indicates that he does not see her as just ‘a woman (whose role was to marry and have children) but as his only hope which he must protect meaning that he must be a good father to protect his last and only child and his only hope which his entire world turns around as if he does not his entire world will