Lord Capulet

Question 1

She hath not seen the change of fourteen years

Answer 1

Genuine paternal guardianship OR an attempt to appear exclusive

Iambic pentameter to show deference and dignity in company of Paris

Question 2

she lov’d her kinsman Tybalt dearly

Answer 2

• Dramatic irony — he believes J is weeping for Tybalt’s sake, rather for Romeo’s
• Casually callous and dismissive – not emotionally moved
• distance between generations

Question 3

Tybalt’s death significance

Answer 3

Tybalt continues Capulet’s bloodline — retains property, while Juliet could not

Tybalt = the warrior/guardian — now Capulet more vulnerable and needs (physical and political) protection so expedites the marriage of Paris + J

Question 4

I will make a despite tender Of my child’s love

Answer 4

Previously ‘she hath not seen the change of fourteen years’ — previously, much more resilient — lack of pressure to marry Juliet off

BUT death of Tybalt has catalysed the marriage as lack of protector or male heir

Question 5

What, still in tears

Answer 5

• Sympathetic as he believes J is crying for Tybalt — ironic
• a façade so Juliet would feel more comfortable and agree to marriage — duality and duplicitousness
• Decorous, poetic, well-mannered public face

Question 6

Out, you green-sickness carrion! out, you baggage! You tallow-face

Answer 6

Triad of exclamatory pejorative epithets
- images of disease, pestilence and canker used to present Juliet as an anaemic lifeless corpse — almost tempts fate + forebodes

• baggage - burden - contrasts previous ‘hopeful lady of my earth’
• breaks iambic pentameter - lack of composure/ control - weakness

Question 7

that we have a curse in having her

Answer 7

• audience expecting divine retribution

- sacrilegious

Question 8

A whining mammet, in her fortune’s tender

Answer 8

• resort to pathetic mockery in order to coerce Juliet into marriage presents him as weak — a prime exemplification of his undignified nature
• puerile/ juvenile
• Mammet” = puppet, Juliet is fate’s puppet and so not in control of her own actions, fate is the puppeteer

Question 9

How is Lord Capulet presented at different points of the play

Answer 9

Opening - on initial inspection = good/ caring father

As play progresses = angry/ furious

As the play draws to a close = more concerned about legacy + reputation then his own daughter

Question 10

Hang, beg, starve, die in the streets

Answer 10

The harsh terms “​hang” “beg”, “starve”​, and ​“die”​ agglomerate to create a ​semantic field of death​ ​which further reinforces the impression that Capulet is a bad father and is concerned more by ​reputation​ and ​honour than he is concerned for his own daughter’s life.

“hang”​ - shocked the Elizabethan audience because a hanging only usually occurred in the case where a crime had been committed. In this way, it is as if Lord Capulet views Juliet as a criminal for going against his orders, which again reinforces the impression that Juliet is trapped by the patriarchal, abusive views of her father.

Question 11

disobedient wretch

Answer 11

shows Lord Capulet referring to how Juliet has strayed from society’s preconceptions about males being able to dominate over women.