Romeo and Juliet
Lord Montague
Romeo's father
The head of the Montague house, a dignified father who worries about his son and ends the feud with a promise of gold.
Lord Montague is the other side of the feud: a proud, protective nobleman who wants to defend his family and worries about his only son. After the opening brawl he is relieved to hear that Romeo was not in the fight, and he asks Benvolio why Romeo has been so sad.
He is not given to violence himself. He sees Romeo wandering at dawn, hears about tears augmenting the morning dew, and does not know how to reach him. His loyalty to his son is all the more painful because Romeo keeps his marriage and his plans secret from his parents.
“But I can give thee more: for I will raise her statue in pure gold”
In the story
Contains spoilers.
Lord Montague plays a small role until the end. Romeo's banishment weighs on the Montagues, and in the final scene he arrives at the tomb to find his son dead. He and Lord Capulet stand over their dead children and learn the whole story from the Friar.
Capulet takes his hand and names it his daughter's jointure. Montague answers that he will go further and raise a statue of Juliet in pure gold, so that no figure in Verona will be set at such a price as that of faithful Juliet. The feud ends in this exchange of grief.
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