How Does Lord Capulet Change Through the Course of the Play Romeo and Juliet
How Does Lord Capulet Change Through the Course of the Play Romeo and Juliet
How does Lord Capulet change through the course of the play Romeo and Juliet?
The play of Romeo and Juliet is set in a rich suburb in the city of Verona in Italy. Romeo and Juliet is a play about love and passion between two young people. It is also about the fate of the two “star-crossed lovers,” who eventually take their own lives because of misunderstandings. You could say that Romeo and Juliet had just too much bad luck and the play leaves you thinking “if only…” If only the messenger had delivered the letter, if only Juliet had woken up sooner … there are so many unfortunate chances in the play.
In this play there is a pointless feud because there is no mention what it is about, the only mention of a reason in the play is the prologue when it says ‘‘
Two households both alike in dignity…….From ancient grudge break to new mutiny’’ .There is a feeling at the start of the play when the Prince arrives and wants the violence to stop
The first we see of Lord Capulet is when he is trying to get involved in a fight between Sampson, Gregory Benvolio and Tybalt .his first word show he is hot-headed because he says’’…… give me my long sword, ho!’’ this shows he is not thinking about his not thinking about his age he is just thinking of fighting and trying to save face in front of the citizens if Verona. He does this not to just save face but also because of the feud this is shown by when he says
‘’My sword I say! Old Montague is come…flourishes his blade in spite of me.
This first sighting of Lord Capulet is not favourable because he is just showing his hotheadedness instead of leaving everything to the young people because of his age.
The next time we see Lord Capulet in the play is when he is talking to Paris about Paris wanting to marry Juliet here we see a calmer Lord Capulet showing his fatherly protective side because he says to Paris ‘‘she hath not seen the change of fourteen years …… let two more summers wither in their pride’ this shows us he is now acting older and wiser as he should have acted from the start.
Lord Capulet seems to love his daughter very much as seen as its his only surviving child we know this because he says ‘‘ Earth hath swallowed all my hopes..’’ meaning that he has buried all of his other children. This is a powerful image because it shows us Lord Capulet sad and loving side for his only surviving child.
Lord Capulet tries to show him self as fun-loving good-hearted person when he throws the ball this just shows wealth.
At this moment in the play we are now seeing an older and wiser Lord Capulet, also at this moment we now kind of fell sad for Lord Capulet because we know what’s going to happen in the end of the play.
When Tybalt wants Romeo to be thrown out of the party Lord Capulet refuses because this will stop his party that he is enjoying, this is surprising because Lord Capulet is letting the foe stay in his party this also shows that he doesn’t see any point in the feud anymore.
He does not get angry when he sees Romeo but instead he tells Tybalt to leave Romeo alone we know this because he says ‘‘…let him alone’’ showing that he wants everybody to enjoy the party. Lord Capulet compliments