Lord Capulet has never heard a No from his daughter Juliet and will not accept it. Juliet has an argument with her father. Lord Capulet is mocking Juliet about but in an angry, when he is talking to her ““Proud”, and “I thank you”, and “I thank you not” and yet “not proud?” This quote is telling us that Capulet is mocking Juliet because she said “not proud you have, but thankful that you have.” So that’s why Capulet got furious at Juliet. After the argument Capulet, lady Capulet and the nurse left, Juliet was all alone, she was unhappy and lonely.
Shakespeare’s portrayal of each character raises our sympathy for Juliet when she is left alone. When Lord Capulet was angry and speaking to Juliet, he was saying “my fingers-itch.” Which means the lord Capulet was going to slap Juliet, because she was talking back to her father. At this stage Juliet was on her knees, she was powerless, she was below him.” I beseech you on my knees”. Also at this moment Lord Capulet has a higher status and he is also rude, says all sorts of rude language towards her daughter, here is a quote “hang thee, young baggage! Disobedient wretch!” Lord Capulet has a very strong powerful character. “I tell thee what: get thee to church O’thrusday, or never after look me in the face.”
Lady Capulet is helpless and can’t do anything to help her daughter also the nurse can’t do anything because women in the Elizabethan time had nothing no power, they were only wives, they only fitted in as a wife.
Juliet’s character is of an only child, a simple girl, she responds to her parents. Juliet then makes a decision up” Having displeased my father, to Lawrence’s cell to make confession and to be absolved”. This means Juliet is going to Lawrence to find out a solution.
At the end of this scene Juliet has changed because at the start of the scene Juliet is so happy and has a high status, but towards the end of the scene Juliet becomes lonely and is powerless. She was upset; she was knelling on her knees. When Juliet was left alone, we as an audience we fell sorry because she has no one.
This scene tells us about the roles of a daughter and a mother in Elizabethan times. They are powerless, they cannot work. At the age of fourteen or when a girl gets their period they should be married. Juliet’s mother did not have any power; she had to be on her husband’s side all the time. I think that the Elizabethan audience will be sympathetic towards Juliet because she doesn’t have anything and her family has turned their back on her and she can’t do anything.
Juliet cleverly misleads her mother with double meanings her is a quote” yet let me weep for such a feeling loss”. This quote is in double meaning and it saying that let me (as in Juliet) keep weeping because Romeo had just left her, but her mother thinks she is crying for Tybalt. Also Juliet misled her mum “I will not marry yet; and when I do, I swear it shall be Romeo, whom you hate rather than pairs”. In this quote Juliet is trying to tell her mother that she will not marry yet, but if she does it will be Romeo who she now hates, which she doesn’t because she wants to be with him.
Lord Capulet’s language towards Juliet was impolite. The language Juliet’s father uses to her is upsetting and rude “out, you green sickness, carrion! Out, you baggage! You tallow face!” This quote tells us the language that Lord Capulet used towards Juliet because she refuse to marry Paris, the quote says you ill bug! You worthless girl! You pale face! This brings Juliet to kneel on her knees begging her father. Lord Capulet also calls Juliet a “disobedient wretch” which means you disobedient wretch, then Juliet rises but does not say anything because she knows her father will knot listen to her. There is no one on her side, she is on her own. Juliet say’s to her father “I beseech you on my knees, hear me with patience but to speak a word”, she makes herself below her father, powerless and vulnerable. Lord Capulet is in a higher status he has the power.
Juliet’s last hope for help was from the nurse, because she knows that the nurse is always there for her. Juliet asked the nurse for some comfort and this is how she gets comfort “I think it best you married the county” so instead of helping the nurse tells Juliet that she better off marrying Paris. Juliet is never going to tell the nurse again about what she feels “thou and my bosom henceforth shall be twain” and also she will go to friar to find out his solution, and if everything else fails at least she will have the power to take her own life. “I’ll to the friar to know his remedy. If all else fail myself have power to die”. At this point we feel sympathy for Juliet because also the nurse has left her, so she is alone. We also know that Juliet will take her life if the friar does not find a solution.
In the pervious scene before Lord Capulet finalises the arrangements with Paris, and at the beginning of this scene Juliet and Romeo are still together for a bit and the nurse is still on Juliet’s side and her parents still adore her. Then after Romeo left her, Juliet became alone, but still everything was all right until Juliet’s mother came in to tell her about her getting married to Pairs, but Juliet refuse to get married and tells her mother to talk to her father about the marriage. Her mother says no to speak to her father so her mother has left her also. When Lord Capulet found out that Juliet his daughter had refused to get married, he started to mock her about “how, how, how? Chopped logic! What is this! “proud” and “I thank you” and I thank you not and yet “not proud”?” This quote is telling us that he doesn’t except an answer back as well as he was mocking her. Juliet’s father got very angry at her and said “but fettles your fine joint ‘gainst Thursday next To go with Pairs to Saint Peter’s church”. Nor did her father listen to her and so her mother and father went and her last hope was the nurse however evens the nurse turned her down by saying its better of you get married to Paris. By the end of the scene everyone has left and her only solution is to seek the help Friar Lawrence or to kill herself.
Shakespeare uses dramatic irony by allowing us to share Juliet’s predicament while her parents remain ignorant of the truth. This way we understand how desperate her situation is.
I think what Romeo and Juliet had to endure is dad because they did not get to live their lives as they wanted to and it’s not fair that women’s and girls have to listen to whatever their father and husband have to say to them. I think that Lord Capulet and Lady Capulet should have let Juliet say who she wanted to get married to, give her the chance to do something for her own life. Since Juliet is their only daughter I think for her happiness they should have listened to what she wanted.
I have learnt that women in the Elizabethan time did not have power and had to listen to what their husband or father would say that is why Lady Capulet did not go against Lord Capulet, when Juliet asked for some time, so women’s in Elizabethan time did not have a choices and I also learnt that Juliet did not get what she wanted she had to listen to her father.