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

Summary of William Shakespeares Romeo and Juliet capital of France asks Capulet for his daughter Juliets hand in marriage. Capulet replies that she is still to a fault young to be married, but nevertheless invites Paris to try to hook her at a banquet he is holding that night. He gives a servant a key out of guests and tells him to take an invitation to each of them. The servant is illiterate, and so goes rough trying to find someone to read the list for him. He runs into Romeo and Benvolio, who are still discussing Romeos unrequited love. The servant gets Romeo to read the guest list for him, and then tells him about(predicate) the banquet. Benvolio convinces Romeo to go along with him to the banquet to compare the former(a)(a) beautiful women t here(predicate) with the one he is pining for Rosaline, a niece of Capulet. exploit I, Scene iii  Lady Capulet, Juliet, and the Nurse talk about the opening of Juliet being married to Paris. Lady Capulet encourages Juliet to consid er him as a capableness husband when she sees him at the banquet. The Nurse is completely taken with the idea, but Juliet is non especially enthusiastic.Commentary  These two scenes introduce Paris as Capulets clean for Juliets husband and, more broadly, establish the theme of parental influence all over a childs happiness. In the last scene, it was shown how the hatred Capulet and Montague bear for each other flows down to affect the rest of their households and results in violent 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 tenability why she should not want to marry him. Capulet himself defers to her ability to choose for herself (My go out to her consent is but a part), but his power to suck her into a marriage if he feels it necessary is implicitly present. It is significant that Paris speaks to Juliets father before he ever shows her any indication of his feelings, and manifes tly before he even gets to know her particularly well. Lady Capulet, for her part, offers her replete(p) 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 appear to like, looking liking move / But no more dusky will I endart mine eye / Than your consent gives strength to cod it fly.