Lord Capulet - Key Quotes
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- Created on: 16-06-18 15:36
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- Act 1 , Scene 2
- ''She’s the hopeful lady of my earth.''
- Capulet think very highly of his daughter and Juliet is very important to him.
- Juliet is his entire world - she is his only surviving child.
- Capulet think very highly of his daughter and Juliet is very important to him.
- ''Too soon marred are those so early made,''
- He thinks Juliet is still too young and naive for something like marriage.
- Could suggest that he's an overprotective father who doesn't want to let his daughter go.
- This maybe implies that he thinks that Juliet's mother, Lady Capulet, gave birth too young.
- It was perfectly normal, during the time of Shakespeare, for girls to marry as young as 12.
- This maybe implies that he thinks that Juliet's mother, Lady Capulet, gave birth too young.
- Could suggest that he's an overprotective father who doesn't want to let his daughter go.
- He thinks Juliet is still too young and naive for something like marriage.
- ''Within her scope of choice,''
- Women having a say in who they want to marry was unheard of in the 16th century as it was a patriarchal society.
- This make Lord Capulet seem very modern and liberal for a 16th century patriarch.
- This could suggest that he think very highly of his daughter.
- This make Lord Capulet seem very modern and liberal for a 16th century patriarch.
- Women having a say in who they want to marry was unheard of in the 16th century as it was a patriarchal society.
- ''My will to her consent is but apart,''
- He values Juliet's opinions and cares fr his daughter's feelings.
- This would have come as a shock to the audience, as it was a patriarchal society.
- This would have come as a shock to the audience, as it was a patriarchal society.
- He values Juliet's opinions and cares fr his daughter's feelings.
- Lord Capulet - Key Quotes
- Act 3, Scene 5
- ''Hang! Beg! Starve! Die in the streets!''
- Capulet is used to getting his own way as it was a patriarchal society.
- ''I beseech you on my knees,''
- Juliet is begging her father to listen to her, but he won't listen - this juxtaposes to the things he say in Act 1, Scene 2.
- ''Hang! Beg! Starve! Die in the streets!''
- Act 3, Scene 5
- ''She’s the hopeful lady of my earth.''
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