In the play, "Romeo and Juliet," Shakespeare clearly presents Juliet's unconditional love for Romeo. However, he suggests that this love is constrained by patriarchal control, induced by Veronese society, warping men's sexual attitudes towards women and love as a whole. We begin this play with the quote, "from fatal loins of these two foes." This quote, mentioned in the prologue, employs fricatives to display how the family's feuds have been detrimental to the lives of Romeo and Juliet, creating a notion of their mutual love as being forbidden and against the society. Shakespeare specifically utilises the adjective ‘fatal’ to forbode towards a tragic ending between the two families due to their pathetic conflicts. Shakespeare uses this to criticise the idea of love within Veronese society, as people were conflicted between who they can and cannot love due to constraints from the pressures of those close to them. The preferred idea of love is then expressed in the opening of Act 1, between the supposedly harmless banter between Sampson and Gregory. During their banter they utilise a semantic field of sexual violence such as ‘thrust’, ‘maids to the wall’ and even ‘my naked weapon’. These coarse remarks are interwoven between sexual metaphors and violent connotations of Sampson's "naked weapon" to juxtapose Juliet's love towards Romeo. Shakespeare utilises Sampson and Gregory as constructs for the typical love in Veronese society and how patriarchy combined with violence distorts true love. Shakespeare is not impressed with this, as he constructs these two Montagues to criticise how easily true love can be confused with lust in his society and if left out of control even those with somewhat wholesome, loving intentions like Juliet can be affected by how society expects her to love. Later in this play, Capulet speaks of his feelings about love to Paris who is soon to be wedded to Juliet against her own will. Capulet begins this by conversing to Paris that she will ‘will soon be marred’ since she was ‘so early made’. Shakespeare utilises language to show Capulet's inability to understand his daughter's feelings and emotions as he is willing to marry his 13-year-old daughter to a grown man. This is especially dangerous as shown through the destructive verb ‘marred’. Capulet understands that his marriage between him his wife resulted in her becoming ‘marred’ but despite this he still goes along with his plan anyways. Shakespeare does this to criticise society as a whole. During Shakespeare's time people were typically wedded at around 24-years-old however in his play Juliet is introduced to marriage at only around 14-years-old, which may have been considered as normal within the Veronese society that this play is based in. Shakespeare's audience however know that Verona is a predominantly Catholic place since it is based in Italy. This would fuel their already apparent distaste for Catholics due to their long lasting feud between Catholicism and Protestantism similar to that between Capulets and Montagues. This could however mean that Shakespeare is trying to highlight to a modern audience in the future, through the constructs of those like Capulet, how dangerous it is to cause hate between contrasting groups of people because it may cause complications, for those like Juliet, who truly love people like Romeo as it would bypass their familial honour and go against their role in society beseeched upon on them. Another instance in the play is during Act 2, Scene 2, during Romeo's secret adventure to Juliet’s balcony. Romeo comes because he is overwhelmed by the lust he has been blinded by, upon seeing Juliet in the First Act. After fully conversing, Juliet replies to one of Romeo's remarks questioning Romeo, "What satisfaction canst thou have tonight?". Juliet is essentially trying to decipher what Romeo's ulterior motives are as she believes that she cannot do much more without upsetting her social status as a perceived virgin. The noun ‘satisfaction’ links to an idea of Romeo's lack of control over lust and Juliet's love being able to see through this. This has been done by Shakespeare to clearly present the troubles of men and how all of them believe they have some sort of power over women. However despite Romeo’s strange requests, Juliet still maintains this pertinent love for Romeo. This may be due to the idea of women having to be submissive to men in order to conform and maintain social status showing the dangers of a patriarchal society. This could allude to the idea that Juliet does not truly love Romeo but instead wants to escape from marrying Paris as she is willing to do anything to not marry him including drinking potions - as mentioned later in the play. During Act 3, Juliet's discovery of Romeo being ‘banishéd’ from Verona may contradict my previous point as to where Juliet's love stems from. This repetition of this verb truly displays her affection towards Romeo and how she is upset by the power of fate on the course of her life. Shakespeare constructs Juliet to portray the dangers of patriarchy and how women are left to be dependent on male counterparts to survive.