After Romeo was banished from Verona, Lady Montague felt very upset and sad when Romeo was banished she was also very distraught. As a result of all this grief Lady Montague died. All of this happened because of the disease and hatred in society. There was a lot of hatred between the Montague and the Capulets, and no one wanted to stop the fighting. Lord Montague also wanted to continue the fighting and arguing between the two families, therefore would have never accepted Romeo’s love for Juliet. This might be one of the reasons why Romeo did not tell his parents about his problems because they would have rejected Romeo’s love towards Juliet.
Lord and Lady Montague are partially responsible for Romeo’s disaster, due to inadequate parenting. Even though they did show signs of adequate parenting, it wasn’t enough. I think that if Lord and Lady Montague had showed much more interest and had communicated more with Romeo, he could have shared his problems with them instead of keeping it to himself.
Juliet’s relationship with her parents, Lord and Lady Capulet is very similar to Romeo’s relationship with his parents. Juliet’s relationship with Lady Capulet was
poor. Even though Lady Capulet talked to Juliet she was a very manipulative mother. In the play the way Lady Capulet talked was very formal and when she is telling Juliet to marry Paris, she is describing him very artificially. This showed that Lady Capulet did not care that much about Juliet as she wanted her to get married to someone she didn’t even know. When Juliet says she doesn’t want to get married to Paris, Lady Capulet completely rejects Juliet, which shows that Lady Capulet does not care about Juliet’s feelings.
Juliet’s relationship with Lord Capulet was the same as Juliet’s relationship with Lady Capulet. Lord Capulet made Juliet feel loved when with her and when she agreed with him, but rejected Juliet when she said she didn’t want to marry Paris. Lord Capulet was very domineering, aggressive when he couldn’t control Juliet. When Juliet says she wants to marry Romeo, Lord Capulet reacts very angrily to this. All of this again is due to the disease and hatred in the society. Lord and Lady Capulet could not let their daughter get married to the enemies (Montague’s) son. Lord and Lady Capulet made Juliet feel unloved, unwanted and rejected. As a result of all of this inadequate parenting, Juliet has to turn to the nurse.
I think that even though Lord and Lady Capulet showed adequate parenting, they showed it to benefit themselves, so Juliet would get married into a rich and wealthy family and it will make them look good.
As a result of the inadequate parenting from Lord and Lady Montague towards Romeo, he had to turn and talk about all of his problems to Friar Lawrence. Friar Lawrence was like a substitute father to Romeo as he could share and tell things to Friar Lawrence which he couldn’t with Lord Montague. This made their relationship very good and much better than Romeo’s relationship with his parents. Friar Lawrence is very trust worthy, wise and gave Romeo lots of good advice. He is also very patient and was willing to help Romeo, which no one else wanted to. Friar Lawrence shows that he is wise as he is aware of the power of the medicine. He also shows that he is wise, as he knows the good/bad points of human nature. In the play Friar Lawrence gives lots of good advice to Romeo. One piece of advice he gave to Romeo in the play was to make sure that the love Romeo has for Juliet, should last for a long time, because if he shows too much passion too fast it will lead to disaster.
Friar Lawrence showed much more adequate parenting towards Romeo then Lord and Lady Montague. He showed this by understanding Romeo’s love for Juliet and agreed to marry the both of them. He also agreed to marry them, as he believed that the marriage could have healed the feud between the Montagues and Capulets.
Even though Friar Lawrence had good intentions in marrying Romeo and Juliet, the plan worked against him because first, the letter didn’t deliver to Romeo, which told him the plan and then he got to the tomb too late. All of this happened because of society being against him, as well as time and fate.
Overall I think that Romeo’s relationship with Friar Lawrence was very good as Romeo could talk and tell Friar Lawrence things that Romeo couldn’t tell his father. I think this is because Friar Lawrence showed lots of signs of adequate parenting. Also
I think that their relationship was very good because Friar Lawrence gave a lot of good advice to Romeo.
Juliet’s relationship with the nurse was very similar to Romeo’s relationship with Friar Lawrence. The nurse was like a mother figure to Juliet. Like Romeo with Friar Lawrence, Juliet could talk and tell the nurse her problems, whereas she couldn’t with her parents. The nurse was very much like Friar Lawrence as she gave Juliet a lot of good advice and listened to Juliet as well. The nurse was a very good substitute parent as she made Juliet feel loved. The nurse is also very supportive because when she went to see Romeo to tell him not to hurt Juliet, Romeo gave the nurse a message to Juliet, saying that he wants to marry Juliet and the nurse didn’t mind. You know that the nurse cares a lot about Juliet because she talks very affectionately about her.
Juliet’s relationship with the nurse got bad as well. This happened because the nurse, unknowingly suggested Juliet marry Paris. Juliet felt betrayed by the nurse because of this, as the nurse knew that Juliet loved Romeo. After this Juliet felt very isolated and couldn’t talk to anyone about her problems. Overall I think that Juliet’s relationship with the nurse was very good. They both could talk to each to her and the nurse gave a lot of good advice to Juliet like Friar Lawrence did to Romeo. Apart from when Juliet felt betrayed, Juliet’s and the nurse both got along very well together. Juliet cannot forgive the nurse for betraying her and Romeo though, and she breaks her relationship with her.
Overall I think that the main reasons which lead to Romeo’s and Juliet’s disaster was due to inadequate parenting from Lord and Lady Montague and Lord and Lady Capulet. They didn’t show enough love, and affection to make Romeo and Juliet feel loved. This obviously lead to Romeo and Juliet not telling their parents about their love for each other and their problems. The two people who showed the most adequate parenting to Romeo and Juliet were Friar Lawrence and the Nurse.
Verona as a society is to blame as well. I think that the feud between the two families also made Romeo and Juliet keep their love for each other a secret.
The people that lost out, the most in this play was Lord and Lady Montague and Lord and Lady Capulet. Lord and Lady Montague lost their only son, Romeo and Lord and Lady Capulet lost their only daughter, Juliet. This is mirror image to each other. Mirror images were used all through the play to describe the similarities between Romeo and Juliet.
