Verona, the place where you find love but is taken away by someone you never thought would. Juliet gets married to Romeo with only the nurse, and Friar Laurence knowing. When Lord Capulet wants Juliet to be happy and for the family to be politically beneficial he arranges a marriage with Count Paris. In this tragedy, Romeo and Juliet, set in the 1500s, William Shakespeare shows Lord Capulet as understanding at first, and caring for Juliet but then is forthcoming. Lord Capulet is primarily responsible for the deaths of Romeo and Juliet because he is Selfish. Lord Capulet is selfish because he wants Juliet to marry paris since he is rich, that would benefit him financially, and politically. He thinks that’s what she wants but it is really what he wants. A quote that shows this is “God’s
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It makes me mad. Day, night, hour, time, work, play, alone, in company, still my care hath been To matched. And having now provided A gentleman of noble parentage, Of fair demesnes, youthful, and nobly trained, Stuffed, as they say, with honorable parts” (3.5.176-182). The quote explains that Lord Capulet picked Count Paris for Juliet to marry because of his social status, not because she loves him. He choose him for his daughter for his own selfish reasons. Lord Capulet is responsible for the deaths of Romeo and Juliet but he is also Ungrateful. The reason he is ungrateful is because when juliet says no to marrying Paris he disowned her. A quote that shows that is when he says “That God had lent us but his only child is one too much. And that we have a curse in having her. Out on her, hilding!” (3.5.166-196). This quote shows the trait by saying his daughter is a curse more than a blessing just because a disagreement. One other quote that
It makes me mad. Day, night, hour, time, work, play, alone, in company, still my care hath been To matched. And having now provided A gentleman of noble parentage, Of fair demesnes, youthful, and nobly trained, Stuffed, as they say, with honorable parts” (3.5.176-182). The quote explains that Lord Capulet picked Count Paris for Juliet to marry because of his social status, not because she loves him. He choose him for his daughter for his own selfish reasons. Lord Capulet is responsible for the deaths of Romeo and Juliet but he is also Ungrateful. The reason he is ungrateful is because when juliet says no to marrying Paris he disowned her. A quote that shows that is when he says “That God had lent us but his only child is one too much. And that we have a curse in having her. Out on her, hilding!” (3.5.166-196). This quote shows the trait by saying his daughter is a curse more than a blessing just because a disagreement. One other quote that