Describe how Juliet's mother behaves when she tells Juliet about the arrangement her father made to have her marry Paris. How does Juliet's mother's...

seems
to think that 's imminent betrothal to the drippy, uninspiringis a cause for celebration. As
well as demonstrating how out of touch with reality she is, Lady Capulet's unaccountably sunny
disposition also emphasizes the lack of genuine connection she has with her daughter.

If our initial impressions of the good Lady weren't exactly positive to begin with,
they're even less so when we see her craven response to her husband's splenetic fury over
Juliet's stubbornness. Unlike Juliet, Lady Capulet unhesitatingly goes along with society's
prevailing conventions without ever stopping to think whether she's doing the right thing. As we
might expect, then, she blindly apes her husband's impetuosity, joining him in...