Relationships In Shakespeare's Romeo And Juliet

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Imagine what it would be like to fall in love with your rival. Imagine everything you believed, is stripped away from you by cause of one person you cannot help to love. Imagine to want to do anything for that person, including giving your life for them. Well imagine no more considering that is what William Shakespeare wrote about in his play, Romeo and Juliet. William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet was one of the most beloved plays ever written because love is something that we can all relate to. In the play, there are a few considerable concepts explored such as the importance of significant relationships, whether our lives are controlled by fate or we have control over it (free will), and how emotional

Family relationships normally result in support, bonding and communication. Nevertheless, in Romeo and Juliet, it is a source of detachment. In the play, Shakespeare explores how Juliet is controlled by her father, Capulet, whom is the patriarch and sole decision-maker for his family. In Act 3 Scene 5, Capulet insists that she wed a man of his preference, Count Paris, however, Juliet won’t agree to it despite her parents anger and disappointment, insisting that she is too young. Her father then flips his lid and tell her to “hang thee”. He claims she is a “disobedient wretch” and “hilding” (hilding; good for nothing, useless person). Capulet tries to blackmail Juliet into marrying Paris by threatening to disown her unless she does as he says, “And then to have a wretched puling fool, A whining mammet, in her fortune’s tender, To answer “I’ll not wed,” “I cannot love,” “I am too young,” “I pray you, pardon me.”— But, an you will not wed, I’ll pardon you. Graze where you will, you shall not house with me.“ (Act 3 Scene

In the play, Juliet lies to her mother, although confides in her nurse whom she has a stronger bond to. For example, when her cousin Tybalt dies at the hand of Romeo, Juliet weeps for Romeo out loud. She lets her mother believe that she is weeping for her dead cousin instead of Romeo’s banishment. However she is honest with her nurse about the true reason that she is weeping, “That “banishèd,” that one word “banishèd” hath slain ten thousand Tybalts” (Act 3 Scene 2). Juliet also leads her mother to believe that she “might banish my cousin’s death” and she “shall never be satisfied with Romeo” until she “behold him - dead”. Juliet does not trust her parents as much as the trusts the nurse. It is suspected that she does not tell her parents about Romeo and her marriage to Romeo because she is afraid, although she does tell the nurse about her love for Romeo and their secret wedding. Juliet and her parents lack the important relationship between them. Juliet considers her nurse to be more of mother-figure and trusts in her nurse’s