Capulet Flashcards
1
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intro
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product of time as characteristic of typical patriarch
2
Q
effect of death on Capulet
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family honour is vital for status, suicide employed to show dangers of allowing this to consume individual, ends feud, peaceful understanding reached in end as resolution
3
Q
treatment of woman
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patriarchal, control over Juliet and Lady Capulet, abusive when not obeyed, seen as good audience to Elizabethan audience as prevented woman from threatening rigid societal order, harsh from modern POV
