Lord Capulet

• "My child is yet a stranger in the world"


  Act 1, scene 2 - Capulet cares for his daughter's age, unusual for the time
• "Earth hath swallowed all my hopes but she/she's the hopeful lady of my earth"


  Act 1, scene 2 - Juliet is his only child so he's pinned his hopes on her. She means the world to him
• "Well, we were born to die"


  Act 3, scene 4 - acknowledges the fragility of humanity
• "I think she will be rul'd in all respects by me"


  Act 3, scene 4 - patriarchy
• "Or I will drag thee on a hurdle thither"


  Act 3, scene 5 - hurdle is what criminals were dragged on to their execution

  Juliet is a criminal for disobeying her father

  A wedding with Paris is as good as death for Juliet
• "Out, you green-sickness carrion! Out, you baggage"


  Act 3, scene 5 - Juliet is an unwanted weight on Capulet's shoulders
• "My fingers itch"


  Act 3, scene 5 - he wants to hit her out of anger

  Audience at time would be surprised that he was only threatening violence
• "Hang, beg, starve, die in the streets"


  Act 3, scene 5 - Capulet's anger at Juliet means he's willing to turn her out of his care (signs her up to prostitution or death)
• "My heart is wonderous light, since this same wayward girl is so reclaimed"


  Act 4, scene 3 - capable of loving Juliet again now that she promises to obey him
• "Death lies on her like an untimely frost upon the sweetest flower of all the field"


  Act 4, scene 5 - contrasts "she's dead" with a more loving simile
• "Death is m son-in-law, Death is my heir"


  Act 4, scene 5 - death personified to show how her wedding has turned to a funeral