![]() ![]() Yet, the influence of his father dominates as Hal grows in Eastcheap to become a far more subtle and craftier schemer-he has learned more than his father imagines how to be ruthlessly political. There is no doubt in my mind that Hal fled the kingdom when his father deposed Richard II to seek out a different father figure in Falstaff. His father wants Hal to be a bloodthirsty warrior. He wishes that a fairy could have switched him at his birth with Hotspur, a man whose business is war. Henry IV believes that his son Hal was born as a curse on his existence. ![]() As a result of Lear politicizing love in his own family, Cordelia becomes the pathetic figure, a vessel collecting all of the poison that the father had concocted. Lear reaps what he has sown in his family as the two daughters have no problem in divesting their father of his kingly role, and dispatching with him as if he is a tedious old retiree who has become a burden to the family. As a result, he has been instrumental in turning his two daughters, Goneril and Regan, into the jealous and rapacious monsters that they are. The love challenge at the opening of the play derives from the sibling rivalry that he had unwittingly nurtured. His children are subjects who must jockey for position and preferment in his court. King Lear obviously treats his family like a tyrant. Nor what is mine shall never do thee good.Īnd even the Nurse, Juliet’s substitute mother, abandons her at the most critical moment in her life, telling her to ditch Romeo and marry Paris. Either Juliet gets to a church to marry Paris orįor, by my soul, I’ll ne’er acknowledge thee, After the Nurse, the woman who has truly raised Juliet in her mother’s absence, begs with Capulet not “to rate her so,” Juliet’s father raises the threat of disinheritance to a terrible height. When the chips are down, and Juliet reveals that she is married to the Montague that has killed her cousin, she falls to her knees before her father and cries, “Good father, I beseech you on my knees / Hear me with patience but to speak a word.” He responds to her desire: “Hang thee, young baggage! Disobedient / wretch!/ I tell thee what-get thee to church a Thursday / Or never after look me in the face.”ĭespite the fact that she is already married to the man she loves, her father commands her to either marry Paris, or relinquish her role as his daughter. ![]() The Montagues want their son Romeo to draw a sword and carve Capulets up into pieces. Everywhere in his plays, parents have an unhealthy role in the lives of their children. Shakespeare loves to explore the pernicious effects that parents have upon their children. ![]()
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