Romeo & Juliet
What Forces Affect A Parent's & Child's Relationship What is it that effects a teenagers relationship with their parents? Is it love or the fact that parents aren't accepting that their children can not be young forever. Romeo and Juliet who are young, fall deeply in love with each other although their families despise one another. In the end all good things must come to an end and Romeo and Juliet take their own lives, which results in the families feud coming to an end. The play Romeo and Juliet by WIlliam Shakespeare is an example of how a young couple in love can cause difficulties and complications within the families due to their youth and naive attitudes. Juliet's decision to marry Romeo over Paris is causing conflicts between her relationship with her parents. Capulet who is Juliet's dad wants her to marry Paris on Thursday. Juliet can not marry Paris because she's already married to Romeo and Capulet does not know about this so
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Romeo's relationship with his parents started to fall apart after the first time he met Juliet. Romeo saw Juliet at the dance and he fell in love,”Did my heart love till now? Forswear it, sight! For I never saw true beauty till this night” (1.5.50-51). The capulets and Montagues have not gotten along for years and Romeo a Montague and Juliet a Capulet are in love with each and their parents will be furious when they find out. Furthermore, Juliet will do anything to be with Romeo and she wants him to do anything to be with her. Juliet is willing to give up being a Capulet just to be with Romeo, “Deny thy father and refuse thy name. Or, if thou wilt not, be but sworn my love, And I’ll no longer be a Capulet” (2.2.34-35-36). The choices that Romeo and Juliet are making are causing their parents to lose trust and honor with them. Also, by taking their own lives it does not fix their
Romeo and Juliet is a play written by William Shakespeare, where a boy and a girl fall in love with each other during a party hosted by Juliet’s father, Lord Capulet. The two teenager decide to get marry, despite their family's hate for each other and only meeting each other a few hours ago. However, the Montagues (Romeo’s Parents) and the Capulets end their feud after they discover that their children killed themselves. Romeo and Juliet’s death was caused by Juliet’s parents, Juliet, and Friar Lawrence.
Romeo and Juliet are madly in love with each other and will go to any lengths to be together.
The teen years is an emotional time for teenagers. One of the many responsibilities as one grows is for a teen and parent to understand one another. Relationships are hard for many teens, but being in a relationship is even harder when their parents do not support them. In the play , Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare shows what could possibly happen if parents do not accept the relationships of their children.
The love that Romeo and Juliet share completely opposes the deep roots of anger and hate between their parents. The quote from the Chorus best states this. Chorus: Two houses, both alike in dignity ? From ancient grudge break to new mutiny ? A pair of star-crossed lovers take their life: Whose misadventured piteous overthrows, Doth with their death bury their
In William Shakespeare’s tragic play Romeo and Juliet, two young lovers from opposing households make impetuous decisions which ultimately lead to the suicide of both lovers (Romeo and Juliet). Juliet, one lover, has mentors that fail her in the play because of their ignorance of her emotional needs and growing independence as a teenager. These mentors are Juliet’s former wet nurse and guardian, the Nurse, Juliet’s mother, Lady Capulet, and Juliet’s father, Lord Capulet.
Shakespeare has been know for many plays but one of his famous one is “Romeo and Juliet” Which has two teens from rivalling families who fell in love with each other but through misunderstandings and not well thought out plans by their mentors led to both Romeo and Juliet’s death by suicide. There were many ways that these “Star-crossed lovers” could avoided their fate with more thought out ideas and bring more people into their plans but untimely they died from plans from their mentors. What is the Relationship between Romeo and Juliet parents? Well Romeo’s relationship with his parents is they care for him very deeply. His mother was very relieved when he was not at the quarreled in the market. “O, where is Romeo?/Saw him today?/Right glad
Young sons and daughters take center stage in several of William Shakespeare’s plays, including the tragedies of Romeo and Juliet and Hamlet. However, the treatment of the sons in comparison to daughters differs substantially. Although both are constrained by similar forces, these work to very different extents based on their genders. While young men such as Romeo, Hamlet, and Laertes are given relatively free reign to do as and go where they please, Juliet and Ophelia are much more constrained by their parents. The tight control of these parents over their daughters, and their attempts to shape their lives, indirectly cause the young women’s deaths. Shakespeare therefore suggests that young women should be given more freedom, as their male counterparts are. This idea greatly challenges the social
The story of Romeo and Juliet is about a young couple who are forbidden to marry because of their families rivalry. This eventually leads to them being torn apart and killing themselves. In the story there are two families, the Montagues and the Capulets, and because of the way they treat Romeo and Juliet, especially the Capulets, I believe that it is their fault that they committed suicide. One of the reasons why it is their fault is because whenever Juliet would try to talk to her parents and tell them about her problems they would brush her off and try to continue with their plan of forcing her to marry Tybalt.
Lady Capulet tried to understand Juliet more than Lord Capulet and she tried to help her, but she was too scared to say anything because she too feared that the lord would hurt her or kick her out. Juliet only had two options and they were to either marry Paris whom she wasn’t in love with or to simply say goodbye to the word by killing herself. In this sad situation Juliet decided to go with her second option which was to kill her self. I believe if Juliet parents could have came to an agreement and allowed her to marry whom she wanted too then both Juliet and Romeo would have still been alive. The two families let there own prides get in the way of their children’s happiness and when all was said and done both sides regretted it.
Although Romeo and Juliet had just gotten married, they did not dare tell the Lord and Lady. They decided to continue hiding their love and didn’t think of the consequences. Lord and Lady Capulet, not knowing of this new marriage, wanted to set up Juliet to marry someone of her status; Paris. When Lord Capulet heard Juliet’s cry to not marry paris he responds, “I tell thee what- get thee to church a Thursday or never after look me in the face. Speak not, reply not, do not answer me!” (Shakespeare 3.5.161-163). Lord Capulet now tells Juliet that she will be grateful and go to the church on Thursday to marry Paris or he does not want to see her ever again. He does not know of her love for Romeo and wants her to marry Paris, but Juliet does not want to be with anyone else except Romeo. Lord and Lady Capulet tries forcing Juliet into marriage with another man, but not knowing that this will play a major role in the death of their
Anna Freud, the founder of child psychoanalysis, once said, “It is only when parental feelings are ineffective or too ambivalent or when the mother's emotions are temporarily engaged elsewhere that children feel lost” (“Anna Freud”). In this case, the children, Romeo and Juliet, get lost and confused, leading to their ultimate deaths. While they cannot live without each other, they also cannot live with each other either, since they end up dying together from all the conflicts piling on top of each other. Since Romeo and Juliet do not really have any parental influence in their lives, they do not know how to resolve their conflict of star-crossed love. Due to miscommunication, conflicting viewpoints between parents and adolescents, and a lack of involvement in their children’s lives, Shakespeare shows through Romeo and Juliet that adults are ineffective in saving their children’s lives.
In the play Juliet's parents, the Capulets, played a major role in the children's death. The Capulets major impacted their death because they were forcing Juliet to marry at a young age to someone she didn't know. In Act 1, Scene 2, of "The Tradegy of Romeo and Juliet" by William Shakespeare, Lady Capulet chirrpily implies to Juliet " But now I'll tell thee joyful tidings girl, Marry, my child, early next Thursday morn. The County Paris, at Saint Peter's Church, Shall happily make thee there a joyful bride." Juliet's responses to Lady Capulet " He shall not make me there a joyful bride." This raises conflict because Juliet had already secretly married Romeo, knowing her parents would disapprove. If the Capulets never forced Juliet to marry Paris, she would have never had to fake her death and keep her
The Conflict Between Two Families in William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet The play ‘Romeo And Juliet’ is a very dramatic one. The conflict between the two families is key to the play as a whole. If they’re where no. conflict. They would just be allowed to be together.
Romeo and Juliet is set in an Italian city named Verona. Romeo is the son of of Montague, a powerful family patriarch, and Juliet is the daughter of Capulet, another powerful patriarch. There’s one problem with this. Capulet and Montague hate each other. There’s another problem. The story was set in a time where men were thought of as superior to women. It was not unusual for a father to marry his daughter to another man just for the political status. This makes it impossible for Romeo to marry Juliet peacefully. In today’s world, Capulet’s actions would not be regarded as good parenting, so that is why, in our eyes, Capulet seems like a bad father, but there is more to his bad side. He tried to marry Juliet off to a kinsman of the prince just for the political status, but his bad parenting also harmed Juliet in another way. He let his anger get the best of him in most cases, and by doing this, it made Juliet keep secret from him. So, by being stubborn, self-absorbed, and hot-tempered, he influenced Romeo and Juliet to kill themselves.
The hatred between the families of Capulets and Montagues in The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet is something that has been going on for as long as they can remember. The constant feuds are something that Romeo and Juliet simply did not have any control over. They couldn’t stop how the rest of their families felt even if they tried. They are kids and adults won’t take advice from them because “adults know best.” Romeo and Juliet were aware of this fact, so they didn’t attempt to change the way their parents felt about the other families. An example of this would be in Act 3:5 lines 94-95 when Juliet says to her mother, “Indeed I never shall be satisfied with Romeo till I behold him-dead-. Here Juliet makes her mother seem as if she is on her side of hating Romeo.