Romeo and Juliet : Family Lifestyle

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the household and their families lifestyles. Most things depended on wealth. If you were a poor family, you belonged to a lower class, and the wealthy families belonged to the upper class. Regardless of your economic situation, everyone was expected to be A Protestant (�Elizabethan Family Life� 2). The sex of the family member had a large impact on your role in the family. The Montague�s and the Capulet�s were dominated by the fathers, along with every other traditional Elizabethan family.
The father set the rules for the family, and they were expected to be followed. If a direction was given, you were required to take on the duty as given. Men supported the family and made all large decisions for the family based on their well being and also based on whether or not it was beneficial to the family. Women were treated much differently than the men. Arranged marriages were traditional within Elizabethan families, and women were expected to marry into another family that could be an ...

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Paris was wealthy is vital, because it�s important to marry in order to benefit the rest of your family. Marrying into wealth is one way to boost the position of the Capulet�s (Moss, 4). Some say that Romeo and Juliet are merely victims of fate, which could be true, or it�s just unfortunate luck that brings Juliet to be assigned a marriage to Paris. It is clear that she does not want anyone besides Romeo because she fell in love with him the moment they locked eyes. In Act 3 Scene 5 (lines 120-123) Juliet says:

I pray you; tell my lord and father, madam,
I will not marry yet. And when I do, I swear
It shall be Romeo, whom you know I hate,
Rather than Paris. These are news ...

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