Romeo and Juliet Group

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nathan520
nathan520
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High School - 9th Grade

what evidence do we have to know that lord capulet is a well rounded father and what is his line that shows this?

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Posted by nathan520 on Saturday May 2, 2009 at 10:33 AM and tagged with lord capulet, romeo and juliet.

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  1. johnnyenglish
    johnnyenglish Teacher
    High School - 11th Grade

    The complexities of Lord Capulet's character is perhaps best solved by his own lamentful concession upon learning of his daughter Juliet's untimely death: "O child, O child! My soul and not my child,/ Dead art thou. Alack, my child is dead,/ And with my child my joys are buried" (IV.v.64-66). These sentiments suggest that Lord Capulet truly loved his daughter (despite his prominent role in causing her death), and instill the concept in the reader that perhaps Lord Capulet's "fatal flaw" was simply that of projecting his own dreams unto his daughter to be realized--regardless of its true cost.

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    Posted by johnnyenglish on Friday May 8, 2009 at 8:30 PM