family - quote analysis

• "my child is yet a stranger in the world" (lord capulet)

  technique - metaphor

  theme - youth, parental control

  ideas - juliet is seen as inexperienced and controlled by her father
• "my life is my foe's debt" (romeo)

  technique - metaphor

  theme - family conflict, fate

  ideas - romeo owes his happiness (juliet) to his enemy, reinforcing the power of family division
• "hang thee, young baggage! disobedient wretch!"

  technique - insults, exclamation

  theme - parental control, patriarchy

  ideas - juliet is dehumanized by her father when she disobeys, showing the harshness of family dynamics at that time
• "nurse, wheres my daughter? call her forth to me" (lady capulet)

  technique - indirect speech, distancing

  theme - family disconnect

  ideas - lady capulet shows a lack of closeness, needing the nurse to act as a go-between (nurse has to communicate on behalf on lady capulet)