Lord Capulet In Romeo And Juliet

Secondary Character Analysis. Romeo and Juliet

The tragedy Romeo and Juliet written by William Shakespeare is about the power of love, which love is an exultant and overwhelming force that Romeo and Juliet use to overthrow any outside influences on them. One of the obstacles the two lovers are facing is Lord Capulet’s opposition to their relationship. Capulet, Juliet’s father, is a rich, fiery, dictatorial yet generous and courteous aristocrat, whose love for his daughter devolves into greediness, leading to his aggressiveness forcing her to marry, and ultimately the death of Romeo and Juliet.

The changing attitude of Lord Capulet is due to both his cupidity and Juliet’s objection to marrying Paris. In act 1 scene 2, Paris, the Kinsman of the

Friar Lawrence, Romeo and Juliet’s friend and confident, is a holy man who advised Romeo to “reside in Mantua until the news of their marriage can be spread”. Capulet, meanwhile, was planning his daughter’s wedding to Paris without her consent. Not willing to resign and marry Paris, Juliet sought her nurse for help, who sided with her father; she turned to Lady Capulet her mother, who would not give her aid either. She then decides to go to Friar, her confident, who tells her to fake accepting the wedding and gives her a poison to drink and temporarily seem dead, but wake up after. The day of her forced wedding with Paris, Juliet drank the poison and died instead of satisfying her father’s selfish wishes. Unfortunately, contrary to Friar Lawrence’s explanation, she never woke up. Romeo, saddened by Juliet’s death, also drank a poison killing, himself. Capulet’s behaviors demonstrate here how greed and hate can lead us to some evil things like making someone commit suicide. If only Capulet had understood earlier they could restore their friendship with the Montague, he wouldn’t have lead Romeo and his daughter to death by refusing their relationship and forcing her to marry at that young age to someone she barely knew and never