Can True Love Come From True Beauty? In Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare reveals Lady Capulet’s shallowness and trivial concern for Juliet’s wishes through the use of metaphor and imagery. Lady Capulet uses Paris’s outer beauty as a way to persuade Juliet to marry him because she is determined to induce Juliet to marry Paris any way she can. She suggests Juliet “read [over] the volume of...Paris’s face” (I.iii.87) in order to decide whether she should marry him, as if Paris’s perfect facial features are important enough for Juliet to jump into a marriage with someone she hardly knows. In addition, Lady Capulet refers to Paris in a metaphor as a “book” (I.iii.97) that “doth share the glory that gold clasps locks in the golden story” (I.iii.97-98)
