Juliet's Relationships

Juliet’s mother, Lady Capulet, is someone who seems to respect most of Juliet’s decisions and Juliet sees her as someone she should respect in return. Although she is Juliet’s mother the bond is not as strong as it was the nurse who brought Juliet up. She does value Juliet’s opinion though. “can you like of Paris’s love?” this question shows that she does want to know what Juliet’s feelings are on the matter, even if she doesn’t really value the answer . Lady Capulet also wants her to fall in love with Paris but doesn’t force her, as she s her only child, she feels similarly to Capulet at on this matter. She wants to get Juliet married though, but at the moment she is not persuading Juliet too strongly.

The nurse is one of the only people Juliet really trusts, but in Act 1 she is trying to persuade Juliet to see how much of a good man Paris is. “Why he is a man of wax” the nurse tries to show Juliet how much of a good or perfect example of a man he is. The nurse can be rather outspoken but Juliet seems to accept this even if mostly she disagrees. “And I might wish to see thee married once, I have my wish.” this is the nurse way of bribing Juliet to come to her senses. The trust between the two is very strong as the nurse was just like her mother to Juliet, now she wants her to be married to see her become a real woman.

To conclude, trust and valuing each other makes the relationship between Juliet and the people surrounding her so very strong. Although in Shakespeare’s day there was a lot of respect for elders, Juliet is very close to her mother, father and nurse.