How Does Lord Capulet Change Through The Course Of The Play Romeo And Juliet

How does Lord Capulet change through the course of the play Romeo and Juliet?

The play of Romeo and Juliet is set in a rich suburb in the city of Verona in Italy. Romeo and Juliet is a play about love and passion between two young people. It is also about the fate of the two "star-crossed lovers," who eventually take their own lives because of misunderstandings. You could say that Romeo and Juliet had just too much bad luck and the play leaves you thinking "if only..." If only the messenger had delivered the letter, if only Juliet had woken up sooner ... there are so many unfortunate chances in the play.

In this play there is a pointless feud because there is no mention what it is about, the only mention of a reason in the play is the prologue when it says ''

Two households both alike in dignity.......From ancient grudge break to new mutiny'' .There is a feeling at the start of the play when the Prince arrives and wants the violence to stop

The first we see of Lord Capulet is when he is trying to get involved in a fight between Sampson, Gregory Benvolio and Tybalt .his first word show he is hot-headed because he says''...... give me my long sword, ho!'' this shows he is not thinking about his not thinking about his age he is just thinking of fighting and trying to save face in front of the citizens if Verona. He does this not to just save face but also because of the feud this is shown by when he says

''My sword I say! Old Montague is come...flourishes his blade in spite of me.

This first sighting of Lord Capulet is not favourable because he is just showing his hotheadedness instead of leaving everything to the young people because of his age.

The next time we see Lord Capulet in the play is when he is talking to Paris about Paris wanting to marry Juliet here we see a calmer Lord Capulet showing his fatherly protective side because he says to Paris ''she hath not seen the change of fourteen years ...... let two more summers wither in their pride' this shows us he is now acting older and wiser as he should have acted from the start.

Lord Capulet seems to love his daughter very much as seen as its his only surviving child we know this because he says '' Earth hath swallowed all my hopes..'' meaning that he has buried all of his other children. This is a powerful image because it shows us Lord Capulet sad and loving side for his only surviving child.

Lord Capulet tries to show him self as fun-loving good-hearted person when he throws the ball this just shows wealth.

At this moment in the play we are now seeing an older and wiser Lord Capulet, also at this moment we now kind of fell sad for Lord Capulet because we know what's going to happen in the end of the play.

When Tybalt wants Romeo to be thrown out of the party Lord Capulet refuses because this will stop his party that he is enjoying, this is surprising because Lord Capulet is letting the foe stay in his party this also shows that he doesn't see any point in the feud anymore.

He does not get angry when he sees Romeo but instead he tells Tybalt to leave Romeo alone we know this because he says ''...let him alone'' showing that he wants everybody to enjoy the party. Lord Capulet compliments Romeo when he says ''a bears him like a portly gentleman;''. This is very sad because we know it is a bit to late for him to be nice to the Montague's because we know what is going to happen from the prologue ''...piteous overthrows doth with their death bury their parents' strife'' this means Lord Capulet's attempts to be nice will be in vein as both children of the two households will die.

Our new opinion of Lord Capulet is somewhat favourable this time because he is the loving wise Lord Capulet but it makes us very sad because we know the end of the play.

The next time we see Lord Capulet the story has moved own consideraboly. Tybalt and Mercutio are both dead and Lord Capulet attitude to Juliet's marriage to Paris has changed because he says ''I will make a desperate tender Of my child's love. I think she will be ruled In all respects by me'' his attitude has changed because of Tybalt's death he thinks if Juliet gets married she will forget all about Tybalt. He does not know Romeo and Juliet have already got married in secret. Juliet's mother has just told her about the plans fir her to get married to Paris next Thursday morning and Juliet has said no.

When Lord Capulet enters the room we immediately reminded of the closeness between him and his daughter as he describes her body

''How now, a conduit, girl? What, still in tears?

Evermore showering? In one little body

Thou counterfeits a bark, a sea, a wind.

For still thy eyes, which I may call the sea,

Do ebb and flow with tears; the bark thy body is

Sailing in this salt flood; the winds, thy sighs,

Who raging with thy tears, and they with them,

Without a sudden calm, will overset

Thy