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Lord Capulet To Blame In Shakespeare's Romeo And Juliet

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In the tragedy of Romeo and Juliet, Capulet was the most at fault for the events that took place. To start off, Lord Capulet gave Paris permission to marry Juliet, without discussing it with her first. Capulet tells Paris, “I think she will be ruled in all respects by me; nay more, I doubt it not” (Shakespeare 1061). The situation of Capulet forcing his thirteen year old daughter to get married is wrong. He made an assumption that his daughter would want to marry Paris, and spend the rest of her life with him. This is taking her freedom away for loving who she wants to love, which a life with someone who you don’t truly want to be with rather than the person you truly love, can be tragic. Shortly after Juliet found out about the forced marriage
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