“I would the fool were married to her grave” -Lady Capulet
What the quote means on it’s own: Lady Capulet is calling her daughter a fool as she is refused to marry Paris and that she’d rather see her dead than not be married.
Unpack: Fool
Below are the many different ways fool can be defined as or used as. The one that I think Lady C is using is someone who’s ‘acting foolish or silly’ as she thinks it is silly that Juliet doesn’t want to marry paris
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1.a person who acts unwisely or imprudently; a silly person.“I felt a bit of a fool”
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2.historicala jester or clown, especially one retained in a royal or noble household.
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1.trick or deceive (someone); dupe.“don’t be fooled into paying out any more of your hard-earned cash”
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1.a person who acts unwisely or imprudently; a silly person.“I felt a bit of a fool”
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2.historicala jester or clown, especially one retained in a royal or noble householdfool1
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1.trick or deceive (someone); dupe.“don’t be fooled into paying out any more of your hard-earned cash”
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2.act in a joking, frivolous, or teasing way.“some lads in the pool were fooling around“2.act in a joking, frivolous, or teasing way.“some lads in the pool were fooling around
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1.foolish; silly.“that damn fool waiter
It relates to the play a lot as Lady Capulet says it because Juliet may end up dying at the end of it all
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