The Importance Of Marriage In William Shakespeare's Romeo And Juliet

Juliet is Lord Capulet’s only daughter and only child, making him really strict about who she marries. At first, Lord Capulet gave Juliet the choice of whether she wanted to marry Paris or not. Lord Capulet thought that Paris would be a great man for his only daughter to marry because of his social status, his wealth, and his relation to the Prince. Later in the play, without regard to Juliet’s feelings Lord Capulet forced Juliet to marry Paris and when Juliet disagreed, he yelled at her,“Hang thee, young baggage! Disobedient wretch!/ I tell thee what: get thee to church o' Thursday,/Or never after look me in the face” (3.5 160-162). Lord Capulet hates the Montagues, Juliet could not have told him that she was already married to his enemy’s son. Lord Capulet in this quote gave Juliet an ultimatum: either she marries Paris or he disowns her. Because Lord Capulet said this and made the decision that Juliet will marry Paris, Juliet went to the Friar to find a solution. The solution that ended up with her in the tomb where she killed herself. Tybalt was Lord Capulet’s nephew, his death made Lord Capulet emotional and caused his outburst at Juliet. Before being in grief, Lord Capulet thought that Juliet was too young to be married. Nonetheless his emotions and rash decisions led to his daughter’s death. After Tybalt’s death and Romeo’s banishment, Juliet was extremely depressed and would not stop crying. Thinking that it was only because of Tybalt’s death that Juliet is so upset, Lord Capulet changed the wedding date: “I’ll have this knot knit up [Wednesday] morning” (4.2 21-22). Friar Lawrence scheduled the plan to happen on Thursday, but since the wedding was moved up a day, it was ruined. Romeo did not receive the letter explaining the plan in time because there was not enough time to deliver it. Instead, Romeo was told that Juliet was dead from Balthasar. Because Romeo could not live without

Lord Capulet’s firm and merciless control can also be blamed for pushing his daughter to the extreme and ultimately her untimely death. When Juliet refuses to marry Paris, Lord Capulet proves his insensitivity, even threatening to disown his daughter and cast her to the streets if she does not obey his wishes. He warns her that she may “graze where [she] will, [she] will not house with [him]… for, by [his] soul, [he] will ne’er acknowledge [her]” (III v 200-205). These threats instill fear in Juliet, and in her despair, she seeks the advice of Friar Lawrence who gives her a potion that will make it appear as if she is dead the morning of the wedding. Lord Capulet can be blamed for his stubbornness and insensitivity despite his daughter’s sincere requests not to marry Paris.

As the story of Romeo and Juliet further progresses, Romeo’s true character becomes more and more apparent; he seems to act solely by impulse. Romeo acts moreso with his emotions, and sudden thoughts than his brain which stores reason and logic. This causes for tragedy and unfortunate circumstance by the end of the poem. This shows how impulsive he is in most of his decisions and how he tends to be very dramatic in everything that he does. When Romeo discovers that Juliet is dead, he almost immediately dramatically decides to drink poison, to kill himself. “Here’s to love, O true apothecary, thy drugs are quick - thus with a kiss I die.” Which shows how quickly he makes wrash and dramatic decisions without thinking it through. If Romeo had not been so careless and impulsive in his decision, Juliet would have awoken and they would both still be alive.

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Within the play titled Romeo and Juliet written by William Shakespeare the character Juliet of the Capulet family changes her attitude toward love and marriage. Shakespeare's play displays that Juliet’s attitude adjusts throughout the play; she goes from being an independent woman who does not seek marriage, to having a cautious love, to eventually hopelessly in love. At the beginning of the play Juliet’s mother speaks with her about marriage, which Juliet answers to her mother "It is an honor I dream not of,” showing that she has no interest in love. Then when the play moves to the balcony scene Juliet shows change of where she feels that Romeo is her first love, yet she still displays no intent to marry. Eventually after Juliet does decide

Romeo tried to break up a quarrel between Mercutio and Tybalt that was gradually becoming physical. Tybalt saw this and tried to fight him as well. However, Romeo did not wish to fight. Romeo felt a certain family-like love for Tybalt since him and Juliet were married and Tybalt was now his cousin as well. Tybalt did not know this and continued to provoke a fight anyways. Maybe, if Tybalt knew about the marriage, then the fight could have been avoided. At the same time, however, Tybalt might have been angry if he knew. The fight went on and ended with Mercutio losing his life and Romeo avenging him by killing Tybalt. The Prince of Verona then banished Romeo from the city, stopping him from seeing Juliet again. Due to the secrecy of their marriage, no one but Romeo and Juliet themselves saw this as a problem. Since Lord and Lady Capulet did not know about their daughter being married, they arranged her marriage with Paris. This then led to Friar Lawrence's second plan which involved the sleeping potion. When the potion put Juliet into a death-like sleep, only her and Friar Lawrence knew that it was a hoax and everyone thought she was dead, even Romeo. This caused him to kill himself to show his love and try to be with her in the afterlife. When Juliet woke up from her slumber, she saw a deceased Romeo and killed herself as well. This second lie and secret of Juliet faking her death to get out of marrying Paris caused the deaths of Romeo, Paris, and herself. Once both the Capulets and Montagues heard of their children's deaths and of all of their secrets, they became guilty and ended their feud. This is one of the only positive outcomes to come out of this tangled web of

One of the final people to make their mark on Romeo and Juliet is Paris. Paris is seeking Juliet’s hand in marriage and, from the start, is turned down as Capulet tells him, (quote). Capulet explains to Paris that he still believes Juliet to be too young to marry and that the offer is okay by him but that it must be accepted by Juliet as well. As Capulet goes on, he continues to encourage Paris to look for other suitors and even invites Paris to the party so that he may find other women there. As more events come into place and Juliet becomes distraught from Romeo’s banishment, Paris again comes into play. This time, however, he creates devastating results. Capulet, seeing his daughter’s anguish, decides to help her regain joy by marrying her off to Paris. This seemingly harmless act sets off the entire plan, to which Juliet drinks poison to fake her death and get out of the marriage. The rest of the plan is that Friar Lawrence should send a letter to Romeo in Manchua, and then he would arrive to take Juliet away when she awakes. Here, an unexpected change occurs, a change for the worse. Romeo fails to receive the letter and is informed of Juliet’s death, not

Tybalt causes Romeo to be in exile and Juliet’s parents foolishly believe she weeps for the death of Tybalt and get her married to Paris at once. This is one of the misunderstandings in the play to far because this pushes Romeo and Juliet to risk their lives, with poison, for

Romeo makes his way to the balcony and professes his undying love for her. They agree to marry and with the help of Friar Laurence, who hopes to bring the two feuding houses together. He marries them secretly the next day, Tybalt is still angry and challenges Romeo to a duel but Romeo refuses to fight because they are kinsmen now. Tybalt just doesn’t know it yet. Mercutio, a kinsman of Prince Escula and Romeo’s friend, is mad that Romeo won’t defend himself so he accepts Tybalt’s challenge to a dual. Romeo tries to break up the fight and somehow Mercutio is killed. Romeo is so mad and full of grieve that he kills Tybalt. When word gets out of the deaths, the houses begin feuding even more. The House of Montague says that Romeo had every right to kill Tybalt. Prince Escuela exiles Romeo because he is so mad that the families are fighting again. He tell Romeo to never return or he will die. Juliet is so upset that Romeo is exiled. Her parents, Lord and Lady Capulet, mistake her sadness and agrees to marry her to Count Paris. If she does not, she will be disowned. Juliet visits Friar Laurence for help and he gives her a sleeping potion that will put her in a deathlike coma. The Friar tells her that he will send a note to Romeo to let him know of the plan they have come up with. The night before her wedding to

The ones who seem like they may do no harm do. Lady Capulet proclaims that Juliet must get married to Paris. She wants Juliet to get married to only because of his looks and money. We know this because of the information given about the wedding planned when she says "The Country Paris, at Saint Peter's church, Shall happily make thee there a joyful bride.”(3.5.114-115) Juliet does not want to get married to him so she declines and contacts Friar Laurence for help. Friar Laurence comes up with an idea and tries help by saying he could end the marriage resulting in Romeo and Juliet living happily ever after. Of course, because this play is so negative the idea leads to nothing good causing Romeo and Juliet to die. This all happened because of

As to marriage, both types regard marriage as important. The romantic relationship between Romeo and Juliet has no strong backing. Moreover, they frequently doubt whether their love is fact. The relationship between Paris and Juliet also needs to secure their social positions. It indicates that the young and adult relationships become more strongly through

I think you both getting married is a great idea, but its to soon I think you should hold off on the wedding. You dont know each other yet. You talked but you havent dated gotten to know each other. I understand life is to short so you should live it but Juliet is still 13 years old that is really young to be getting married at and Romeo is older then Juliet. I feel like you guys just have not though it out yet and I feel like you should have it thought out. Being married is a big step and I dont really think its love at first sight. Like others might say it is but one reason i think its is a good idea becuase you can see the love for Juliet in Romeo eyes and Juliet love to but its to early to acually tell if there down for each other you guys

In Shakespeare’s play Romeo and Juliet, it explores the relationship between two teen lovers that fall together and can’t be apart. They grow to love and care for each other and forget about the dangers. If they got caught their parents would likely be very disappointed that these two are together. We have just finished reading this play in our english class and it demonstrated the way things have changed from then to current times. As represented by arranged marriages.

Throughout Romeo and Juliet, Juliet’s mood about marriage have changed, when she was first told about marriage, she was shy, when she meets Romeo she was anxious, but towards the end Juliet felt depressed about marriage. When the audience is first introduced to Juliet, she is talking to Lady Capulet and Nurse about marriage. Throughout the whole scene, Juliet stands there and listens, and talks minimum, the cause of Juliet's little interaction is because Juliet is cautious about marriage. During the rising action part of the story, Juliet meets a boy named Romeo. Juliet falls in love with Romeo and would do anything to be with him, within one day from being shy about marriage she is anxious to get married to Romeo. After the death of Tybalt,

In this essay I am going to examine love and marriage and the way it