Who Is To Blame In Romeo And Juliet

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The play Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare is about two people named Romeo and Juliet that fall in love and ends in a tragedy. Their parents are in a feud and so their love is forbidden. In the end they both end up dying trying to be together. One of Shakespeare’s major themes is that hate colors your perception of others and makes you treat them different. The Capulets that are Juliet’s parents are to blame. The reason is they let their anger for the Montagues make it so their daughter had to keep a secret that she was married to Romeo. Which eventually killed them.

One of the main reasons the Capulets are to blame is because there were many parts where Capulet and Lady Capulet were saying Juliet was ungrateful for not marrying Paris. Also after she said she wanted to kill herself and that is why Friar Lawrence gave her the potion. When it says “Get thee to church o’ thursday, or never after look, me in the face” (3.5,167-168) This first quote is Capulet saying to marry Paris or never look at him again. When he says this you can see the hate that he has for Juliet that for some reason she doesn’t want to marry. Then in the second quote it shows that she would rather die than …show more content…

Romeo and Juliet are basically doomed from the beginning because of their parents feud. Even though they knew their parents were in a feud and hated each other they still went on with their love, because they both knew that their love was too strong. “My only love sprung from my only hate!”When Juliet says this the tone in her voice is surprised. What I think is going through her head at this moment is why this is happening and of all people she could have seen anyone but she saw Romeo. The reason she is so surprised is she was all fine when she didn’t know he was a Montague but once she found out she was upset. This shows that their feud affects everyone not just

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