The Capulets And Montagues: The Ones To Truly Blame Romeo and Juliet is a tragedy where the four teenagers die because of a feud going on between two noble families. Their death is a mix everyone’s fault, but it is mainly the Capulets and Montagues fault. Although the two families thought they were doing good for their children, they were hateful towards each other, too stubborn to try to resolve the feud, and Lord and Lady Capulet were very hard on Juliet when she refused to marry Paris. The Capulets and Montagues thought the feud wouldn’t do any harm, but the hate towards each other caused the four teenagers to die. For instance, Shakespeare says: Two households, both alike in dignity, In fair Verona, where we lay or scene, From
Talha Salman Mrs. Cruz-Walsh English 2B 24 March 2012 The Loss of Two Two lovers bound together by their ill-fated love, unknowingly lead themselves to their deaths. William Shakespeare's tragedy, Romeo and Juliet, is a play about Romeo and Juliet and their short-lived love. Fueled by a family grudge the Capulet and Montague households could never see “eye to eye”. With only one man supporting them, the couple secretly loved, until they were ripped apart and eventually lost their lives. The demise of Romeo and Juliet was caused by their youth and inexperience, interference by adults, and most of all by fate and chance.
Human Imperfection Romeo and Juliet are one of the greatest examples of young love. They fell in love at first sight, but their family feud wouldn’t let them be together. Romeo and Juliet went to extremes to be together, and they found their only option to be death. It’s very plain and simple, Capulets and Montagues just hate one another. There is no real reason why they hate one another, other than having a different last name.
(Stabs herself) There rust and let me die.”-P. 579 lines (169-171). It’s really sad that all of this could have been avoided if Juliet would’ve just left with Romeo or if their families gave up their hatred for one another. Throughout Romeo and Juliet, Romeo and Juliet’s personality drastically changes. At first Romeo was love-sick and Juliet didn’t want anything to do with marriage. Then they meet, fall in love and get married.
For instance, they are clueless the whole play of what Juliet is doing and how she feels. Capulet the clueless says to Paris, “Look you, she loved her kinsman Tybalt dearly and so did I” (153). Capulet even thinks that Juliet is stuck morning over the death of her cousin when she is truly morning of the exile of her love. Lady Capulet does not even know her own daughters age. Their oblivion to the whole situation causes a big issue such as the deaths of Romeo in Juliet.
/ For I ne’er saw true beauty till this night” (I.v.50-51) This shows his impulsiveness by not mentioning Rosaline at all and starting to fall in love with a girl he does not even know. Yet does he know she is a Capulet. Romeo’s action of falling in love leads to much grief of others. It leads to the deaths of Romeo, Juliet, Tybalt, Mercutio, Paris, and Lady Montague. The fates and lives of these people, Romeo included, could have been spared if his tragic flaw had not taken over when
Romeo and Juliet is a romantic tragedy that takes place in Verona, Italy. Unfortunately Romeo and Juliet are victims of a bitter feud between both of their families, which meant that in Italian families’ feuds carry on between all of the family members. Romeo, the son of Montague, is a young handsome man, he is a fighter, he is a poet and he is romantic and in the long run he becomes a peacemaker. He also was depressed. Romeo was in love or so he thought with Rosaline.
In the stories, A Rose for Emily by William Faulkner and The Jilting of Granny Weatherall by Katherine Anne Porter both women had different reactions to the similar situations of being rejected by their lover and losing a loved one. In Faulkner’s story, A Rose for Emily, the main character, Miss Emily, acted out irrationally when her lover, Homer, rejected her. All her life Emily was not able to have a chance with any suitors because her father always pushed them away. When she got older she began to loose her beauty and she felt she would never get married
Juliet does not think ahead before this hastily decision is made. She does not think about her future, in her mind there is no future without Romeo. Romeo and Juliet were deeply in love, as shown by their actions. There are multiple choices that lead to the tragic death of both characters. Juliet was ill-advised by Friar Laurence
Throughout the play, we never really see him assume responsibility for any one of his choices. Juliet also makes a number of poor decisions including marrying Romeo without telling anyone besides the nurse. One major display of free will or a choice Juliet makes, is her decision to drink the potion. After deciding to fake her own death, Juliet wakes up and sees her husband lying dead. The biggest example of free will is Juliet’s decision to take the poison and end her own life.