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What Do We Learn About Juliet's Relationship With Her Father From Act 3 Scene 5? During the Elizabethan period, daughters had to marry according to their fathers wishes. This was because men were seen as more dominant than women. Women could refuse to get married to her chosen husband but at a price. If women refused to respect their father's wishes then they could be disowned and banished from their family household. I think that Elizabethan society was unfair towards women's rights as they could not do much without permission from men. They weren't aloud to have more intellectual jobs such as doctors and lawyers. This was all because women were seen as the 'weaker sex' and inferior to all men. At the start of the play, it is clear that Capulet is in no rush to get Juliet married to Paris as he feels that see is too young and would...

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