Question

Read these lines from Act I, Scene ii of Romeo and Juliet and answer the question.

Answer 1

by reminding readers that brides had little control over whom or at what age they could marry.

Answer 2

By reminding readers that brides had little control over whom or at what age they could marry.

We know that back then people did not have much say in who it was they married. Their parents chose for them who they saw fit and that was that. Very little was the spouse chosen by the person themself. So this encounter reminds us that back then brides has almost no control over who it was that they would marry.