81.7k views
3 votes
Which lines in this excerpt from act III of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet best show Lord Capulet’s oppressive and authoritarian nature?

User Meggan
by
8.7k points

2 Answers

2 votes

I think she will be ruled In all respects by me; nay, more, I doubt it not
These lines best describe the oppressive and authoritarian nature of copulet

User Juan Ocho
by
8.0k points
0 votes

CAPULET: Things have fall'n out, sir, so unluckily,

That we have had no time to move our daughter:

Look you, she loved her kinsman Tybalt dearly,

And so did I: Well, we were born to die.

'Tis very late, she'll not come down to-night:

I promise you, but for your company,

I would have been a-bed an hour ago.

PARIS: These times of woe afford no time to woo.

Madam, good night: commend me to your daughter.

LADY CAPULET: I will, and know her mind early to-morrow;

To-night she is mew'd up to her heaviness.

CAPULET: Sir Paris, I will make a desperate tender

Of my child's love: I think she will be ruled

In all respects by me; nay, more, I doubt it not.

Wife, go you to her ere you go to bed;

Acquaint her here of my son Paris' love;

And bid her, mark you me, on Wednesday next—

But, soft! what day is this?

the answers.

User Stud Sterkel
by
7.7k points