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How does the play Romeo and Juliet suggest that attitudes towards marriage and family life were very different in 15th Century Italy.
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How does the play Romeo and Juliet suggest that attitudes towards marriage and family life were very different in 15th Century Italy and in Elizabethan times than in today's society? How might Shakespeare's contemporary audience have responded to the story of the star-crossed lovers and how might we respond to it today? When Romeo Montague and Juliet Capulet fall for each other their love is doomed by the seething hate their families share for one another. Their relationship is further wounded as the Capulets have already chosen Paris as a suitor for their daughter. Their relationship faces tragic inevitability as its seems fate is against them and the family's hate overshadows the young couples love. The audience's ideals of love are immortalised in the story of Romeo + Juliet as good conquers evil. Although the couple dies for each other, the Montagues and Capulets see the results of their foolishness through the...
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