Lady Capulet Characterisation v Lady Capulet is portrayed

Lady Capulet

Characterisation v Lady Capulet is portrayed as cold hearted and distant toward Juliet. v She deeply encourages Juliet to find a love in Paris, an example of this is: “What say you? Can you love the gentleman? This night you shall behold him at our feast. Read o'er the volume of young Paris' face And find delight writ there with beauty’s pen. Examine every married lineament And see how one another lends content, And what obscured in this fair volume lies Find written in the margin of his eyes”

Characterisation – She is an ineffectual mother, relying on the Nurse for moral and pragmatic support. – “ LADY CAPULET This is the matter: --Nurse, give leave awhile, We must talk in secret: --nurse, come back again; I have remember'd me, thou's hear our counsel. Thou know'st my daughter's of a pretty age. Nurse Faith, I can tell her age unto an hour. LADY CAPULET She's not fourteen. Nurse I'll lay fourteen of my teeth, -And yet, to my teeth be it spoken, I have but four-She is not fourteen.

Characterisation Lady Capulet is selfish because she doesn't listen to her daughter's woes about her upcoming marriage to Paris; she refuses to listen to her as she is disrespecting her husband therefore the family name. EVIDENCE"Talk not to me, for I'll not speak a word, Do as thou wilt, for I have done with thee. "

Characterisation Throughout the play, Lady Capulet appears to EVIDENCEhave a very formal relationship with her "Nurse, where's my daughter? Call her forth to daughter and never knows what she is doing or me. " who she really is.

Characterisation – Lady Capulet is a typical rich woman who satisfies herself with prestige and social status. We see this as she encourages Juliet that a marriage to Paris would look good for the family. She actually does this beautifully in an extended metaphor comparing Paris to a book in Act I. – Lady Capulet is likewise quick-tempered and concerned with outward appearances. We see this in her praise for Paris and her aversion to Romeo. And also like her husband, ultimately she sees her daughter as more of a burden and a responsibility than a loving member of her family.

Characterisation – Lady Capulet is still a young woman, many years younger than her sixty year-old husband. She also has fewer redeeming qualities than he does. She ridicules his age in the presence of others and endeavors to assert her authority over him. Capulet completely ignores her on all occasions thus showing she has no influence over him. She also has very little influence over her daughter; she has had little part in her upbringing and still treats Juliet as a child. – Lady Capulet can be demanding and conniving. When she learns that Romeo killed Tybalt, her nephew, she demands the death of Romeo. She is incapable of seeing any justice in Romeo’s fighting Tybalt over the death of Mercutio; her hysterical demands, however, make no impression on the Prince. Her wickedness comes to the forefront when she tells Juliet that she plans to seek revenge on Romeo for Tybalt’s death and will poison him through a servant. Lady Capulet, revealing very little that is admirable in her character, is created to be an unlikable and unsympathetic character – The shock that Lady Capulet receives over Juliet’s supposed death removes all superfluity from her, and the grief-stricken mother comes out. Her sorrow over the loss of her child is immense, which she clearly expresses with a string of adjectives. “Accurs’t unhappy, wretched hateful day!”, are genuinely from the heart. Lady Capulet is an unsympathetic, heartless, scheming woman, until she is overtaken by tragedy.