Shakespear uses the metaphor ‘ripe’ to suggest Juliet is not mature enough for marriage. This makes me feel that Juliet is an innocent and naive young lady. Capulet also says
‘My daughter is yet a stranger in the world’
The writer picked the word stranger she can’t really be a stranger in the world what the writer is trying to say is that she hasn’t seen much of the world she is still young and not ready for marriage. This tells the audience that Capulet really loves his daughter and wants to spend more time with her. So in this particular scenespear sphere presents the relationship between Juliet and her father as close. Capulet appears protective when he rejects Paris’s proposal. Shakespear makes us think there close because he rejects Paris’s proposal knowing that he is wealthy and will keep his daughter safe.
In act 3 scene 4 Capulet changes his mind about letting two summers pass and getting Juliet married. At this point in the play Romeo has killed Tyblat and has been banned from Verona. Capulet says
‘For still thy eyes, which I may call the sea’
Capulet is really upset because of the death of Tyblat and Capulet feels sad because he thinks that Juliet is crying because of Tyblat. Shakespear has chosen the word sea because the amounts of tears are the same as the sea. However the audience knows why she is crying and that is because she will never see Romeo again. We don’t think she is being disobedient because she is already married to Romeo and can’t marry again. Capulet says that he is prepared for Juliet to marry Paris. This shows that their relationship isn’t very good that is because Capulet has no one to give his money and wealth too when he dies he would have gave it to Tyblat but he is now dead. So he needs Juliet to get married. Here I think Capulet is being a bit selfish. And Juliet relationship towards her father is not so good either this is because she has just married her fathers enemies son.
In act 3 scene 5 Juliet refuses to marry Paris she says
‘She shall be married to this noble earl’
‘Day, night, work, play, /alone in company, still my care hath been/ to have her matched; and having now provided/ a gentleman of noble parentage’
When Capulet uses the word noble he means rich, kind, generous man. He thinks about Juliet a lot and thinks he is making the right decision.
‘I pray you tell my lord and my father, madam/I will not marry let’
This would seem as disobedient and in the Elizabethan times because the father had all the power in them days and you couldn’t go against them. When Capulet comes upstairs, lady Capulet tells lord Capulet that Juliet has refused marrying Paris, he changes from the kind father to the evil nasty father and doesn’t get it, he doesn’t know were he has gone wrong. We pity Capulet here because he is confused and upset and doesn’t know what’s going on. Shakespear changes the behaviour and language of lord Capulet by making him raise his voice and saying
‘Doth she does not give us thanks’
He is trying to say that she is so ungrateful; he doesn’t know why she has said no. in the Elizabethan times all the Elizabethan people would be shocked that Juliet has said this. He also says
’drag her on a hurter thither’
He is so mad with her, like in that time he must be thinking how dare she, how can she be so disobedient, who does she thing she is. And if she doesn’t come to the church he will drag her there.
‘Never after look me in the face/curse in having he’
This shows he is so angry with her he cant believe he has had her. He wishes she wasn’t even born; he doesn’t want to see her. He doesn’t want her to look at him in the face. She is a disgrace, she’s unbelievable.
‘You shall not house with me/and you be mine, I give you to my friend; and you be not hang, beg starve, die in the streets/for by my so, ill ne’er acknowledge thee’
In the Elizabethan times if a lady was shucked out of their home they would not bee aloud in anyone’s house. No one would take them they would just die on the streets. Here Capulet is furious with her and is very mad he is saying why she wasn’t just dead. As a modern audience we would think she has a very limited amount of choices and no rights. But that didn’t matter in the Elizabethan times you were ruled by your father. You had no say in anything.
In act 4 scene 2 Juliet apologises for her not obeying her father and letting him down she says
‘Where I learned me to repend the sin’
What Juliet is saying is I have been somewhere to repent my sin and will you forgive me. She only says this because she wants her father to think she is really dead later on in the play, when she fakes her death. She also says
‘Good father I beseech you on my knees’
She is begging her dad to forgive her. She is ashamed of what she has done. She goes down on her knees for forgiveness. The language is quite different to what it is now, she goes down on her knees and begs for forrgivness. I feel she is doing something wrong when she pretends to be dead. Then Capulet says
‘My heart is a wondress light’
Capulet uses the word wondress light this implies that he loves his daughter very much and can forgive her.
In act 4 scene 5 Juliet fakes her death, when Capulet finds out he says
‘O son, the night before the wedding day hath death lain with thy wife’
Capulet says this, which means he is very upset, he can’t believe what she has done, and he can’t believe she is dead in her wedding dress. Capulet thinks she has taken poison because she missed Tyblat and it was too much of a pain for her. At this moment Capulet’s relationship to Juliet like a good proper father however Juliet is being very selfish letting her father think she is dead so she can marry Romeo and live happily ever after.
In conclusion shake sphere presents the relationship between Juliet and her father as sometimes strong and sometimes very weak. Shake sphere presents the relationship like it is because it gives off more emotion at the end. Shake sphere uses specific words, for Juliet he uses ‘ripe’ and ‘stranger’ but as the play goes on Capulet is wrong to use those words. Because she isn’t naive and innocent. People would have different opinions on who should be blamed for the death of Romeo and Juliet. I don’t think it is one person’s fault I think they all made the wrong decisions. Personally I would most blame it on the messenger because he didn’t give Romeo the letter saying Juliet is not dead, not only the messenger the priest is to blame as well because he came up with the fake death he got them married and he failed with the message. In those days if someone cursed you it would come true and Mercutio cursed their families so he is to blame as well. Romeo and Juliet knew this was not possible yet they got married and lastly Capulet shouldn’t have forced Juliet to get married and the two families are against each other because of an old fume. They could have had a new start with each other. So everyone is to blame. Throughout the play shakespear is manipulating us.
