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Originally posted by flanders56
Act 3 scene 5 -Capulet
The father is locked into his own firm believe and tradition. You can't realy blame the father for telling Juliet to mary Paris. If he is to blame, you only can blame him for being stuck into traditions. Afterall, his marriage with Juliet's mother was also fixed, Love came afterwards and he (and Juliet's mother) are happy too.
His reaction of banning Juliet when she doesn't comply, is only human and one can say that such a reaction is proof of his love for her.
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Originally posted by flanders56
Act 5 scene 3- Juliet:
“ Go get thee hense, for i will not away
What’s here? A cup clos’d in my true love’s hand?
Poison i see hath been his timeless end.
O churl, drunk all, and left no friends drop
To help me after? I will kiss thy lips,
Haply some poison yet doth hand on them,
To make me die with a restorative.
Thy lips are warm”
“ Yea, noise? Then i’ll be breif. O happy dagger,
This is thy sheath”
These sacraficial acts are so comparable to others in todays civilization, people today perform human sacrifice, in the context of religious ritual, although this often only occurs in some traditional religions, for example in muti killings in eastern Africa. There are less extreme sacrafices that people have to make every day, be it for you who gets the prefered outcome, or you who makes the sacrafice as to improve someone elses equities.
I think you missed a bit the point of this act and scene. It isn't about human sacrifice, let alone in the context of religions.
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The overall examples given are good, but IMHO, are taken too literally of the play. eg: the whole situation of the reaction of the father to ban Juliet if she don't marry Paris, can be reflected to what parents do today: If you want something, but your parents think it is not the best for you, they can react in a somewhat extreme way (in your eyes). But this is only because they want the best for you, the best as they know it.
In other words, try not to take the situation too literally (eg: mariage), but think about similar situation or what the underlying meaning can be.
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Originally posted by flanders56
are they no educated people in which can analyse a 15 year olds essay?
Analyzing such an essay is much work and requires big (but interesting) discussions. One analyzation can also be quite different than the other, yet both can be correct.
I suggest you try to contact someone which you can speak to in real life as that would be much better for analyzing/discussing this. eg: A teacher in your school? People at the local theater? etc...
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Originally posted by Dazmatic
and i dont think anyone wants too read through your whole stupid "essay" anyway 
If you don't have anything usefull to say, don't post at all...
Not only are you dead wrong that people do not want to read it, that essay is not stupid at all. And you would learn a lot if you actually read it or do the same: analyzing theaticral plays. They quite often indeed have very big underlying themes which can indeed be reflected upon the world of today.
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