Summary of William Shakespeares Romeo and Juliet :: Romeo and Juliet Essays

Summary of William Shakespeares Romeo and Julietgenus capital of France asks Capulet for his daughter Juliets hand in marriage. Capulet replies that she is still too young to be married, and nevertheless invites Paris to try to woo her at a bedspread he is attribute that night. He gives a servant a list of guests and tells him to take an invitation to distributively of them. The servant is illiterate, and so goes about trying to find someone to get word the list for him. He runs into Romeo and Benvolio, who are still discussing Romeos unrequited love. The servant gets Romeo to pick out the guest list for him, and then tells him about the banquet. Benvolio convinces Romeo to go along with him to the banquet to compare the other beautiful women in that respect with the one he is ache for Rosaline, a niece of Capulet.Act I, Scene iii  Lady Capulet, Juliet, and the Nurse take to task about the possibility of Juliet being married to Paris. Lady Capulet encourages Juliet to co nsider him as a potential husband when she sees him at the banquet. The Nurse is completely interpreted with the idea, but Juliet is not especially enthusiastic.Commentary  These two scenes introduce Paris as Capulets pick for Juliets husband and, more broadly, establish the theme of parental influence over a childs happiness. In the last scene, it was shown how the hatred Capulet and Montague come out for each other flows down to affect the rest of their households and results in gaga conflict, but here the influence is more subtle and mundane. Paris is a nobleman and a worthy choice to be Juliets husband there is no reason why she should not want to marry him. Capulet himself defers to her power to choose for herself (My will to her accept is but a part), but his power to force her into a marriage if he feels it necessary is implicitly present. It is significant that Paris speaks to Juliets father to begin with he ever shows her every indication of his feelings, and appar ently before he flat gets to know her specially well. Lady Capulet, for her part, offers her entire support to her husbands plan for their daughter, and begins to put pressure on Juliet to think about Paris as a husband before Juliet begins to think about marriage at all on her own. Juliet even says to Lady Capulet in scene 3 how important her influence is to her in this matter Ill look to like, looking liking move / But no more deep will I endart mine eye / Than your consent gives strength to make it fly.