Post #5 Decicions...... Belong to Parents or Children?

In Act IV of Romeo & Juliet, Juliet seeks advice from Friar Lawrence about marrying Paris, when she secretly is already married to Romeo, who has been banished from Verona for killing Tybalt. Tybalt was Juliet's dear cousin and Juliet still loved Romeo anyway. This is how strong there love was for each other.

When Juliet goes to seek advice from the friar.

When Juliet goes to see Friar, he comes up with a plan for the two lovers to be together.  In this plan Juliet will drink a potion that will cause her to become dead for forty~two hours, and then the lovers will run off together when Juliet wakes. She goes along with the plan even though it is seriously dangerous. What will happen to Juliet?


If Juliet would have just told her parents that she was already married and in love with a Montague, Romeo, I think that maybe her mother would have eventually gave in, to her daughter's powerful love because mother's love romantic stories and want their daughters to be happy" Speak briefly, can you like of Paris' love" she actually gives Juliet the choice (Shakespeare 58). On the other hand I believe that Juliet's father would like her to marry Paris no matter what and nothing can change that, considering how strongly he reacted when she refused to marry Paris,"Hang thee, young baggage! Disobedient wretch!" (Shakespeare 214). I do think her parents reactions would be even stronger if she would have told them that she was already married to Romeo.


Vocabulary:


arbitrating- deciding; judging
distraught- upset; distressed
immoderately- wastefully; extravagantly
inundation- flood; outpouring
resolution- solution to a problem
spited- acted maliciously or with ill will
supple- flexible; pliant