Romeo and Juliet: Act 3 Scenes 3-5; A Loss of Hope

Prompt E:

I think this picture represents these scenes and how Juliet feels. Juliet's close cousin has just been killed by her lover, Romeo, who is banished from the city. Then she finds out she has to marry County Paris, which she doesn't want to do, or she will be disowned by her father, and has no support from her mother or close friend, the nurse. Juliet is in a bad situation and has to make some crucial decisions that will affect the rest of her life. She can either marry Paris and break her vows with Romeo, not marry Paris and get disowned by her family, or kill herself. Right now, things aren't looking too good for Juliet, and she feels hopeless.

Prompt F: 

Juliet and her father have a very complex relationship, and sometimes he can be rash and unreasonable. When he finds out that Juliet doesn't want to marry Paris, he gets angry and threatens to disown her. While Capulet had seemed very reasonable in previous acts, like when he accepts Romeo at his masquerade, but in this situation, he is harsh and mean when he calls her daughter, "young baggage, disobedient wretch!" (167). Juliet must be very hurt by her father's actions, and disheartened. While they are father and daughter, Capulet treats her daughter as property. He tries to marry Juliet off to a stranger, and gets angry when she refuses. While arranged marriages were common back then, Capulet should care about his daughter enough to respect her wishes. The relationship between Capulet and Juliet shows the misogynistic, male-oriented society people used to live in.