One thing I noticed in the 1996 adaptation of Romeo + Juliet is how Lady Capulet is all spunky, slightly crazy and overdramatic, like she is everywhere you don’t even know where she is going. She might have been a party animal in her younger years, like some kind of a socialite that it is all about parties and having a great time, until marriage and a child happened.
But yet, after the party, you get to see her trapped, suffering in silence, as if she has no voice to speak up against her husband on rushing their daughter into marriage, in pain for the loss of her only nephew, possibly abused by her husband (hence that scene where he is forcing Juliet into marry Paris) he pushed her away or slapped her, and that part where she is leaning on the elevator’s door, she is literally scared, and unleashing the angry beast of her husband made her pushed away her daughter, as if she is done with it all.
Fellow fans: what are your thoughts on her character?
In all my sincere honesty, I may be a fan of Romeo and Juliet, but I’m not skilled enough to do a full-on analysis like I’ve seen here.
