1. Juliet and her father
After reading the extract from Act 1 scene 2, Do you think Lord Capulet is a caring father?

2. Objective
To develop an understanding of how Juliet’s parents are presented and what their relationship wit Juliet is like.

3. Read the extract from 3.5
How has your opinion of Capulet as a father changed?

4. Juliet and her father At the start he appears caring and protective.
Protect her innocence, keep her young and free.
However…he eventually imposes marriage upon Juliet which results in her taking the potion.
‘Hang thee, young baggage. Disobedient wretch!” Quite a change from ‘hopeful lady of my earth.

5. Write a paragraph . . .
Tell me where your sympathies lie; is Juliet right to feel she doesn’t want to marry Paris, or does Lord Capulet have the right to tell his daughter who to marry in the 1500s?
CHALLENGE: If you can, try to use different parts of the plot and evidence from the text to support your opinions.

6. Exam style question
CAPULET How! will she none? doth she not give us thanks? Is she not proud? doth she not count her blest, Unworthy as she is, that we have wrought So worthy a gentleman to be her bridegroom?
JULIET
Not proud, you have; but thankful, that you have: Proud can I never be of what I hate; But thankful even for hate, that is meant love.
CAPULET
How now, how now, chop-logic! What is this? 'Proud,' and 'I thank you,' and 'I thank you not;' And yet 'not proud,' mistress minion, you, Thank me no thankings, nor, proud me no prouds, But fettle your fine joints 'gainst Thursday next, To go with Paris to Saint Peter's Church, Or I will drag thee on a hurdle thither. Out, you green-sickness carrion! out, you baggage! You tallow-face 
Starting with this conversation, explain how you think Shakespeare presents the relationship between Juliet and her father.
Write about:
• how Shakespeare presents their relationship in this extract
• how Shakespeare presents their relationship in the play as a whole.

8. Context
Rich women in Shakespeare’s time (1500s) would have hired a ‘wet nurse’ to breastfeed their babies. Therefore the bond between nurse and baby was strong. Juliet was breastfed and raised by her nurse. She is closer to the nurse than to her own mother

9. Act 1 scene 3 Respond and support with quotes
What do we learn about Juliet’s relationship with her mother from this extract?
What do we learn about Juliet’s relationship with the nurse from this extract?

10. Old and young
Despite Juliet and Romeo being unable to turn to their parents in their time of need, suggesting poor relations between old and young, both characters confide and take advice from the older generation: the nurse and Friar Lawrence respectively.
Friar L is a father figure in terms of his support and guidance (albeit a bit rubbish!)

11. Mercutio and the Nurse
These characters ‘bounce’ off eachother well and their ‘relationship’ is a vehicle for comedy.
They are both bawdy and lewd and bring light relief to the intense, harrowing and stressful tragedy.

12. Relationship with mother in the whole play
Juliet cannot confide in her mother, she tells the nurse instead about her marriage to Romeo. Later in the play, when Juliet refuses to marry Paris, her mother says, “I would the fool were married to her grave.” This obviously foreshadows Juliet’s death – but how cold and callous that her mother says such a thing the first time Juliet is disobedient.