Lady Capulet

Question 1

thesis

Answer 1

Shakespeare presents Lady Capulet as a product of a patriarchal and honour-obsessed society, showing how women can become complicit in upholding toxic values and how blind loyalty to social expectations can destroy familial bonds.

Question 2

essay plan

Answer 2

At the start of the play, Shakespeare highlights the distant and formal relationship between Lady Capulet and Juliet to critique Renaissance social structures that discouraged emotional intimacy between mothers and daughters.

As the play progresses, Shakespeare allows Lady Capulet to briefly subvert the expectations of passive femininity through her vengeful outburst about Romeo, criticising how impulsive anger can lead to destructive outcomes.

Towards the end of the play, Shakespeare ultimately reaffirms Lady Capulet’s adherence to patriarchal expectations, using her compliance and silence to expose the rigid limitations placed on women within Verona’s male-dominated society.

Question 3

quote 1 and 2

Answer 3

Nurse, where’s my daughter?

We must talk in secret - Nurse come back again

Question 4

quote 3 and 4

Answer 4

I was your mother much upon these years that you are now a maid

tybalt, my cousin, o my brother’s child

Question 5

quote 5 and 6

Answer 5

I beg for justice, which thou, Prince, must give

for blood of ours, shed blood of Montague

Question 6

quote 7 and 8

Answer 6

Thou hast a careful father

I would the fool were married to her grave

Question 7

quote 9

Answer 7

talk not to me, for I’ll not speak a word