Modern audiences would fault Paris for non wooing Juliet. nevertheless in Shakespeare’s clip Paris would hold been considered as behaving in a much more proper manner than Romeo. Private wooing between immature people. illustrated in Romeo and Juliet. was officially disapproved of. There are many types of love in the two scenes. for illustration Paris’s love. Paris is the adult male Juliet’s parents think is fit for her ; nevertheless this arranged matrimony does non affect love – love was non a feeling. it was a committedness. Another type of love is illustrated in Romeo and Juliet. When Romeo met Juliet. Romeo became more passionate. seen in his linguistic communication compared with his linguistic communication approximately Rosaline. Juliet besides became more independent. Their love was so strong they were willing to decease for each other. although their households had gone through old ages of hate.
Affluent work forces and adult females of Shakespeare’s clip considered that ‘true love’ was when immature work forces fell in love with beautiful immature adult females. with small hope of winning the women’s love in return. and unanswered love was common among the work forces. such love did non take to marriage. Marriage in Shakespeare’s epoch was usually arranged by parents between the households. Precedence in matrimony concerned: legal contracts. household pride and. of class. money. Love did non enter in it at all. or merely as a secondary consideration. as it does in Act 3 Scene 4. where Paris appears passionately acute to get married Juliet instantly and says to Capulet. ‘My Godhead. I would that Thursday were tomorrow’ .
In Act 1. Capulet is asked by Paris for Juliet’s manus in matrimony. ‘But now my Godhead what say you to my suit? ’ Capulet is non willing ; he expresses his concern about Juliet’s age. ‘My kid is yet a alien in the world’ and ‘Let two more summer’s wither in their pride’ Besides in Act 1. Capulet arranges a ball to which Paris is invited. Capulet told Paris. at the ball. that he would hold to their matrimony merely if Juliet agreed. ‘And she agreed. within her range of pick prevarications my consent and just harmonizing voice’ this means ; ‘if she agrees. I will give my consent to her get marrieding the adult male she chooses’ .
However in Act 3 Scene 4 his confidences to Paris that Juliet will be duteous are dramatically dry. because Juliet has already married Romeo and is passing the dark with him. Besides in Act 3 Scene 4 Capulet alterations his head about waiting two more old ages. and make up one’s mind to travel in front with the matrimony with Paris without Juliet’s consent. He besides changes his head on what twenty-four hours they should get married for no evident ground. From Act 1 to Act 3 Scene 5. Capulet has gone from allowing his girl take a groom to forcing and violently endangering her into an ordered matrimony with Paris. His ‘fingers itch’ to strike Juliet.
In Act 3 Scene 4. when Capulet informs Paris of Tybalt’s decease and the consequence he thinks this has on Juliet. he uses linguistic communication that states that Juliet is his belongings ; ‘… that we have had no clip to travel our daughter’ . Capulet besides thinks that he is in no uncertainty that Juliet is ‘ruled’ by him: ‘I think she will be ruled in all respects by me. nay more. I doubt it not’ Capulet’s assurance that Juliet will obey him and get married Paris contrasts aggressively with his behavior in Act I. Scene 2. At the mask ball. he told Paris he would hold to the lucifer merely if Juliet agreed. However. when she refuses to obey him and get married Paris Capulet loses his pique ( his many rhetorical inquiries stress his choler and confusion ) and says he will disinherit her. Shakespeare assigns Capulet foul and baleful linguistic communication towards his girl. ‘Out you green sickness carrion. out you baggage. you tallow face! ’ he besides states that if Juliet does non get married Paris. he will drag her to church on a traitor’s ‘hurdle’ .
We get a sense that Capulet sees his married woman as inferior to him. throughout the drama he repeatedly calls her ‘wife’ and he shows no mark of love or regard. We see this in Act 3 Scene 4 when Capulet agrees to Juliet’s matrimony and says to his married woman. ‘Prepare her. married woman. against this nuptials day’ But Lady Capulet seems to accept the thought of being called married woman. she besides looks up to her hubby and accepts his authorization and calls him ‘sir’ as seen in Act 3 Scene 5. ‘Ay sir. but she will none…’ . She does seek to lenify Capulet when he rages at his daughter’s noncompliance. ‘Fie. fie what are you. mad? ’ However. her attitude towards matrimony is similar to that of her hubby. She expects Juliet to obey her parents. and when Juliet refuses. she washes her custodies of her girl and says. ‘Do as thou wilt. for I have done with thee’
Paris’s attitude towards Juliet is one of courtly love. He is happy to come in matrimony without of all time acquiring to cognize her. or ‘court’ her: ‘These times of suffering afford no clip to woo’ He besides asks Lady Capulet to denote their matrimony for him. as if matrimony was every bit simple as a fiscal dealing. Paris’s courtly love towards Juliet in Act 3 Scene 4 is juxtaposed by Shakespeare to the passionate love illustrated in Act 3 Scene 5 between Romeo and Juliet.
In Act 3 Scene 5. Shakespeare assigns Romeo and Juliet to play out an drawn-out metaphor about two birds ; a lark and a Luscinia megarhynchos. The lovers try to defy the coming twenty-four hours that brings them separation by feigning that it is still dark and that the bird they hear is the Luscinia megarhynchos and non the lark. a forenoon bird. ‘Nor that is non the lark’ . However. the menace of the Prince’s sentence of decease eventually forces the lovers to portion. ‘It is. it is. hie hence. be gone. off. It is the lark that sings so out of tune’ This unwilling going of Romeo shows us that they do non wish to portion and their love is strong plenty to put on the line decease. ‘I have more attention to remain than will to go’ and ‘Come decease and welcome’
In Act 3 Scene 5. Juliet assures Romeo that ‘It was the Luscinia megarhynchos. and non the lark’ She besides applies the word ‘Love’ when speaking to Romeo. ‘Believe me love. it was the nightingale’ . Juliet wishes the sound of the forenoon lark was really the sound of the Luscinia megarhynchos. Juliet attempts to decline the reaching of twenty-four hours to widen her clip with Romeo. Their linguistic communication is passionate and intense as Romeo agrees to remain and confront his decease. As in old scenes. Romeo and Juliet’s love lives in the dark and dark. but daylight brings separation and sick luck ; Juliet says reluctantly. ‘Window. allow twenty-four hours in. and allow life out’ . This besides gives us a sense of premonition.
When speaking about Rosaline. Romeo uses many riming pairs. unlike his more natural duologue with Juliet. which makes what he says about Rosaline sound like a well-rehearsed address instead than true love ; this may be an illustration of exasperated love. We besides seem to acquire the feeling that he is more in love with the thought of being in love “Here’s much to make with hatred. but more with love” This contrasts aggressively with Romeo’s thought of love in Act 1 Scene 1 when he thinks he is in love with Rosaline.
Juliet has a conversation with her female parent shortly after Romeo’s going. a conversation of two significances. ‘indeed I shall ne’er be satisfied. boulder clay I behold him dead. is my hapless bosom so for a kinsman vexed? ’ Lady Capulet thinks she is stating ; I ne’er shall be satisfied until Romeo is dead. and she is crying for a kinsman. Tybalt. However. she may really intend ; I ne’er shall be satisfied with Romeo boulder clay I behold him dead. my hapless bosom is so annoyed for a kinsman. Romeo. In Elizabethan idiom. a man’s decease besides means his sexual flood tide and this allows Juliet to discourse her sexual relationship with her hubby in a cloaked mode
Lady Capulet. who is incognizant that Juliet. who is dramatically dry. heartaches for Romeo’s ostracism instead than the decease of Tybalt. attempts to soothe her girl with her programs to revenge Tybalt’s decease by poisoning Romeo. This conversation has a heavy sense of predicting since Lady Capulet’s hope of poisoning Romeo is brought to life at the terminal. Juliet’s attitude towards love and matrimony is seen in her refusal to get married Paris. She is already married to Romeo. so to get married Paris would be bigamy. This shows us that Shakespeare has assigned Juliet to be a faithful and jurisprudence staying individual.
The Nurse. who is been presented as more of a female parent than Juliet’s biological female parent. fails Juliet at the terminal of Act 3 Scene 5. To soothe Juliet in her despairing state of affairs. the Nurse offers her an easy solution ; to get married Paris and bury the ‘dish clout’ Romeo. This immoral advice betrays Juliet’s trust and shows the Nurse’s failure to understand the passionate nature of Romeo and Juliet’s love. The Nurse therefore respects love as a impermanent and physical relationship. and she sees Juliet’s matrimony to Paris wholly acceptable.
To reason. in the two scenes the attitudes of Capulet. Lady Capulet. Paris and the nurse towards love and matrimony were normal for the clip. They believed that matrimony was a concern trade and love was non a precedence when it comes to power and authorization. It seems as if passionate love is outside their experience ands they fail to understand Juliet’s infatuation for Romeo. Juliet was on her articulatio genuss imploring for his apprehension. but he casts her aside as do her female parent and the nurse and by the terminal of Act 3 Scene 5 Juliet is left emotionally entirely on phase isolated and wholly entirely to seek consolation in her love for Romeo. Romeo and Juliet’s attitude to love is more kindred to Contemporary love. The love between them is deep and passionate and is more powerful than the hatred between their households and even decease.
