Lord Capulet To Blame For Romeo And Juliet's Death Essay

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In William Shakespeare’s play Romeo and Juliet, the young forbidden love results in death. The two kids, Romeo and Juliet, take their lives because of the families’ feud. The people who should be held responsible for their death is the Capulet family. The Capulets hold the most blame for the deaths of Romeo and Juliet because they never let Juliet be happy with who she wanted. They made Juliet marry Paris for fame and wealth but never let her have a say in what she wanted. Because of this Juliet went to Friar Lawrence and came home with a plan to take the poison that impersonates death. When the plan had a different outcome than expected the young lovers decided the only way out of this situation was to kill themselves because neither of the families would ever accept their love. Balthazar did miscommunicate with Friar John in the play, but if the parents had not tried to force Juliet into marrying Paris, then there would not have been a plan. …show more content…

So this is confusing Juliet. She no longer knows how to make her family happy. Lord Capulet threatened to kick Juliet out on the streets and let her starve if she did not obey him. And although the Capulets were very nice to Romeo at the party, they could not contain Tybalt. Had the Capulet family been able to contain Tybalt and his anger, Mercutio would not be dead and Romeo would not have been banished. If Romeo were not banished the two lovers would never have been apart and there would be no misunderstanding about the

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