What are Lady Capulet's intentions for wanting Juliet to marry Paris as seen in Act 3, Scene 5 of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet? Does she actually...

We see in
the very third scene, the scene in which we meetfor the first time, that Lady
Capulet is even more eager to marry off thanis.
Therefore, we can surmise that Lady Capulet has her own reasons for wanting Juliet
to marrythat are different from her husband's reasons.

We see
Lord Capulet's initial hesitation at allowing Juliet to marry so
young in the very second scene. When Count Paris asks him for his daughter's hand, apparently
not for the first time, Lord Capulet replies that he feels his daughter is still too young to be
married and tells Paris to "[l]et two more summers wither in their pride / Ere we think her
ripe to be a bride" (I.ii.10-11). However, he changes his mind later on when he sees Juliet
grieving so deeply over what he believes to be 's death. She is so deeply grieved that he
worries about her sanity and her health, plus feels that marrying a good man like Paris will
serve as a healthy distraction.

In contrast, Lady Capulet never
shared her husband's hesitations. Instead, in Act 1, Scene
3, we see her trying to persuade her daughter to
think of marrying Paris. She even uses as an argument that Lady Capulet herself was already
Juliet's mother when she was Juliet's age, as we see in her lines:

By my count,
I was your mother much upon these years
That you are now
a maid. (I.iii.75-77)

Not only that, while Lord Capulet
responds to Paris's argument that even younger girls than Juliet are happily married by saying
he feels she is too young and wants her to wait two more years, Juliet's mother argues the exact
opposite. Lady Capulet, like Paris, tries to persuade Juliet by saying that younger girls than
Juliet "[a]re made already mothers" (75). Hence we can say that since Lady Capulet
disagreed with her husband's views on when Juliet should marry, Lady Capulet has
her own motives for wanting Juliet to marry Paris so young. Her motives probably
have a great deal to do with increased social standing and wealth. Paris, being a Count, is of
much higher rank than Lord and Lady Capulet and owns a much wealthier estate. Therefore, his
marriage to Juliet would greatly benefit the Capulets by increasing their social status as well
as by increasing their daughter's wealth.