LORD CAPULET - ROMEO AND JULIET
- Created by: Tilly Sullivan
- Created on: 14-11-21 15:30
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- Lord Capulet
- Where in the play
- Act One
- A1S1: tries to join Sampson and Gregory in brawl, Lady C stops this
- A1S2: Capulet puts of Paris marrying Juliet as she is 'yet a stranger in the world'
- A1S5: Shows little violane, asking Tybalt to not fight and calls Romeo a 'portly gentleman'
- Act Three
- A3S4: Whilst Juliet is very emotional ( over Romeo, only known to audience), Capulet agrees to Paris to allow them to wed
- A3S5: Capulet tells Juliet the plan for her to wed Paris on Thursday. She refuses, he is furious and wishes her dead, calls her a whore
- Act Four
- A4S5: Nurse discovers Juliet dead, despie his outburst, he now mourns her death
- Act One
- Character Development / Attitudes throughout
- Introduction
- Loving and empathetic father - asks Paris to wait to marry her
- Cares a significant amount about Juliet as he recognises the need to be protective
- 'My child is yet a stranger in the world' 'The earth hath swallow'd all my hopes but she'
- Changes to his representation
- HUGE CHANGE - A3S5: Infuriated by Juliets refusal to marry ( disobedience and ungratefulness),
- Perhaps concern to failure as a father, unable to provide a safe marriage
- Shock to response, usually sees Juliet as submissive, obedient and calm.
- Loss of affection, huge contrast to his original attitude to Juliet's marriage
- Tybalt's death catalyses a change in the family dynamic, more erratic and change of opinion.
- "Hang thee, young baggage! disobedient wretch!"
- "hang, beg, starve, die in the streets...I'll ne'ver acknowledge thee"
- Final representation
- Upon her death - complete change of character, no longer mad
- Loving, devastated, lamentable,
- Sense of regret and apologetic - last time they interacted they argued (unresolved)
- Introduction
- Links to Context
- Introduced to go against typical Shakespearean attitudes, protects his daughter, despite it being common to marry them early
- Women were always under possession of a man, either their ather or their husband
- Powerful figure and was the head of the family during this time
- Women are expected to be subservient to men, had to be quite (seen not heard), and follow orders
- Arranged marriages were common as a way for the families to elevate their social position, and for wealth. HYPERGAMY
- Response from an Elizabethan audience
- Expectation upon him to charge charge of family
- Most higher class families were typically quite distant form children, uncommon for their to be such a loving relationship initially between father and daughter
- Their fight in A3S5 could have also led to violence, typical response from the man of the house who expects obedience from the women, both staff and family
- Seemingly much calmer than the typical masculine man of Elizabethan times, doesn;t encourage as much violence as the extreme would (shown to contrast in Tybalt)
- Response from a modern audience
- Introduced as a similar reflection of what today's father and daughter relationship is like - loving and overly protective - shows Shakespeare's modern attitudes
- Upsetting and shocking for this outbust, untypical for modern times, shows epectation both on father and children to find a suitor who benefits the family, and not out of love
- Where in the play
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