Lord C

• Story role

  provide an obstacle for Romeo and juliet's romance

  - occasionally antagnostic

  - symbolise authority and tradition - she also married at a young age
• Lord: What noise is this? Give me my long sword, ho!

  Lady: A crutch! A crutch! Why call you for a sword?

  - presented as a violent character as he is impulsive and wants his sword, also presents him as hypermasculine in Shakespeare's time

  - repetition of "crutch" makes him seem foolish as he is unfit to be using a sword, this is heightened by the following question

  - shown as more sensible and rational
• Lord: My child is yet a stranger in the world.

  She hath not seen the change of fourteen years.


  act 1 scene 2

  - presents him as being protective, preventing her from being married off

  - alternatively, interpreted as controlling or being traditional by dictating his daughter's marital status, typical of traditional Elizabethan society
• "He shall be endured [...] Am I master here, or you?"

  lord capulet ordering tybalt

  - presented as authoritative as he uses a simple imperative sentence and strong modal verbs

  - rhetorical question reminds tybalt of who holds the power and that he must listen to him
• Shall give him such an unaccust omed dram

  That he shall soon keep Tybalt company;

  And then I hope thou wilt be satisfied.

  - she is presented as vengeful

  - doesn't care about the prince's authority and wants to take matters into her own hands
• My fingers itch


  - Lord cap is presented as violent, angry and threatening

  - coloquial way of ssaying he wants to slap someone

  - abuses his power
• Lady: O me! O me! My child, My only life. Revive, look up or I will die with thee. Help! Help!

  
  

  Lord: Death, that hath ta'en her hence to make me wail,

  Ties up my tongue and will not let me speak.

  both are presented as sad about the death and actually care about her

  - ladys sadness is evident in her repetition, frequent pauses and use of "my"

  - she cannot bare the thought of living without her daughter

  -contrasting to Lord capulet as he is in shock and cannot speak, withdrawn

  sadness lives up to the gender stereotypes of society