Romeo And Juliet Capulet Quotes

Capulet in the Classic Shakespearean play of Romeo and Juliet displays a mixture of qualities rather than conveying a sense of consistency of action.
When the audience first sees him, in act 1 scene 1, we find we find a Capulet who wants to straight away jump in a fight with younger members of his family -he being the older member should show the maturity an self-strain that you would expect from a man of his age- but instead we see him demanding”Give me my long sword” this suggests that he acts before he thinks. In this scene he is presented as an aggressive man. The quote tells me that he is in alert and has a sense of vulnerability as he does not feel safe without his sword; it also reflects the amount of times he has been in fights as
In this scene Juliet`s parents reveal to her about her arranged marriage with Paris, as Juliet`s reaction to this is negative Capulet is not very pleased, it reveals an angry and threatening side of him. He shows no interest in Juliet`s feelings as he says “speak not, reply not, do not answer me” this shows how unemotional he is, a few scenes before we saw a version of Capulet who respected Juliet`s wishes- but after this scene we see a side that somehow gives me the impression of the real Capulet. I get this idea as there is no one of the public to witness this so anything he says will not be at risk of his reputation being damaged- as it is the only thing he seems to care about-he says to Juliet what is really in his mind. He is very impatient and does not want to deal with the situation that Juliet is putting him in, he will throw away Juliet`s wishes i other to fulfil his own, this tells me that he is a selfish man and does not love his daughter enough to care, this might be because in Shakespearean time women took care of the children so the father might not have a real connection with his
The language he uses becomes more exaggerative as we go through this scene. “O child, O child, my soul, and not my child” he begins to gain the knowledge that he will die out without any heirs and that the wedding is spoiled. He also says “And with my child my joys are buried” from these two quotes above, specially I would like to highlight the “my” out of “my joys” from the second quote- it shows how self-centered, in his child`s death he thinks about he thinks about the position that this event is putting him in- he is too occupied with himself than to think of others; personally I think that this contributes to the idea that i have mentioned before about not having a real connection in between the characters of Juliet and