Explore Act 1 scene 3 and Act 3 scene 5 in detail Juliets ralationship with her parents and the Nurse nd how this presented.

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The actress portraying Juliet needs to show the charaters rapid development from and obident daughter to a more confident young woman, determined to decide her own fate.

Explore Act 1 scene 3 and Act 3 scene 5 in detail Juliets ralationship with her parents and the Nurse nd how this presented.

When Juliet is introduced into the play she is shown as an innocent child who has everything decided for her. Lady Capulet refers to her as "it" and doesn't call her "Juliet". LC arrangesa marridge for her with Paris the reason being that he owns allot of power. Lady Capulet and Capulet beleive it's about time she settles down and had a family. They beleive Paris is the man for her because a man with power is what a woman needs. Not an man that she loves because it doesn't matter to LC and C, all that matters is power. If juliets married Paris not only would it make Juliet more powerful it would make the capulets more powerful. So It is important to them that she marries Paris. Juliet clearly doesn't want to marry a person that she doesn't love but Nurse and LC says that she will learn to love him.

               In the begining before she falls in love with Romeo, she is shown as a young immature girl but after the affect of Romeo and Juliets love occurs she is shown as a mature young lady.

               Nurse is more of a best friend than a parent to Juliet although she has been more of a parent figure than Lady Capulet and Capulet. Nurse is not aware of Juliets emotions almost as she has no emotion she is not capable of being embarrassed they discuss sex infront of her face and they say she has been prepared for sex and marriage at a young age. She reminises about the times she had gone out with her husband and Juliet when she was at a young age. She fall over oh her face and Nurse say thather husband had said that she would prefer being on her back in a decades time meaning as a sexual way. Julietagreed as babies do but obviously not knowing what. So nurse had come to a conclusion that she had been ready for sex at the ages of three or four. Nurse just explains it right in her face not caring for her emotions as if she has no emotion. Juliets mother and nurse have a good relationship with Juliet but they don't take into consideration about what she wanted or who sh wanted to marry. Lady Capulet cares about little but money and her power. She wants more power and Juliet marrying Paris would equal more ower for her and Juliet.

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Lady Capulet believes that she wants the best for Juliet but what she doesn't know is that she is in love with another man, Romeo. And the best for Juliet would be to be with a man she is in love wih. Lady Capulet was probably the same type of woman her mother was. Forced into an arranged marriage with no choice in the matter. Lady Capulet was probably as with marrying someone like Capulet which is someone like Paris at his age. Young handsome, clever, rich, charming, has allot of land which to Lady Capulet and Capulet is the ...

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