Lady Capulet And Emily Strorm Affect Their Texts

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How the Characteristics of Lady Capulet and Emily Strorm Affect Their Texts. Although written almost four hundred years apart, the characters Lady Capulet from the play Romeo and Juliet and Emily Strorm from the novel The Chrysalids, share numerous qualities that heavily influence the plot of their texts. The women affect the plot of their texts in similar manners. They create conflict with those around them through their personalities and flaws. Their qualities can be witnessed in our own lives as well. These shared and distinct characteristics are important factors that drive the plot of their texts. Families care for and protect each other, yet, the two women prove the contrary with their unloving and cold personalities. Emily’s unloving nature is evident when she refuses to aid her sister, Harriet, in receiving a certificate of normalcy. She berates Harriet for bringing a mutant into her home and abetting a concealment, two things that go against her morals as she believes heavily in the Waknukian faith. Harriet tells Emily that she had …show more content…

She resents Juliet as she would not consent to her marriage to Paris, which meant that her family could no longer achieve any further authority over the community. She could not view Juliet as a person but instead saw her as a tool for climbing the social ladder. She could not tolerate Juliet's disobedience. Juliet's emotions were irrelevant to her. This impacted how the play took place as Juliet is forced to devise a plan with Friar Laurence When the Capulet family discovered that Juliet would not marry Paris, they all abandoned her. Lady Capulet relied too heavily on the Nurse to give Juliet moral support. Emily is an even more narrow-minded person. She and the other Waknukians, do not see the value of change, leading them to be erased by the Sealanders. The mindsets of both women led to suffering as neither of them could overcome their views. The neglectful treatment of

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