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Lord Capulet To Blame In Romeo And Juliet

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Romeo and Juliet were meant to live a happy ending, but something comes in between the two lovers. This story/play ends in a tragedy when Juliet’s father, Lord Capulet, comes along. He decides for Juliet that Paris is the best husband for her, when he actually doesn’t know the truth about Romeo and Juliet’s relationship. Juliet tries to tell his father that she is married to Romeo, but he refuses to listen to her. She comes up with a plan to live happily with Romeo, when her father suddenly decided to unknowingly twist her plan.
Lord Capulet is to blame for the tragedy because he was never the kind of father to blame for in the beginning until later something comes in between his decision. “My will to her consent is but a part./as she agree, …show more content…

He lets Juliet choose whoever she wants to marry as her husband. He believes that as long as his daughter is happy, he’ll agree and give his blessing to the chosen soon-to-be husband. As far as agreeing to marriage, Lord Capulet also thinks Juliet is not ready to get married yet. For example, “Let two more summers wither in their pride/ere we may think her ripe to be a bride.” (1.2.10-11). Capulet understands that Paris wants to marry Juliet, but she is still too young to be marrying at her age. He wanted to wait until she is a bit older before she could become a bride. Soon after the incident with Tybalt and Mercutio, Lord Capulet decides to choose Juliet’s husband for her. “Sir, Paris, I will make a desperate tender/of my child’s love. I think she will be ruled/in all respects by me; nay more, I doubt it not.” (3.4.12-14). He already knows that Paris wants to marry Juliet, so he is offering Juliet’s love to him. In the beginning, he said that Paris must win her heart before he could marry her, but instead, he doesn’t think thoroughly about what he said and decides to engage Paris with Juliet. “Now, sir, her father counts it dangerous/that she do give her sorrow so much sway,/and in his wisdom hastes our marriage/to stop the inundation of her …show more content…

For example, “Things have fall’n out, sir, unluckily/that we have had no time to move our daughter.” (3.4.1-2) Capulet hadn’t even convinced Juliet to marry Paris, in the first place. He ignored the fact that he should discuss with his daughter about Paris and goes on with making decisions on his own. He cares too much about his own opinion, rather than Juliet’s. Another example, “Day, night; tide, time; work, play;/alone, in company; still my care hath been/to have her matched; and having now provided/a gentleman of noble parentage,/of fair demesnes, youthful, and nobly trained,/stuffed, as they say, with honorable parts/proportioned as one’s thought would wish a man.” (3.5.178-184). Capulet goes ahead and desperately tries to find Juliet a husband that he thinks would suit her most. He thinks that Paris is the perfect kind of man for Juliet because he has good qualities. Because Paris is from a noble family, Capulet must have thought that he is a lady’s man. He was thinking about his own opinion on Paris, rather than Juliet’s. This entire time, Lord Capulet was only being selfish, and thinking of himself when he chose Paris to be Juliet’s husband. His selfish actions were part of why the tragic ending between Romeo and Juliet was

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