Romeo And Juliet The Capulet Parents Fault

The dire want to keep one’s bloodline deep-rooted can lead a person to make poor decisions, causing the unfolding of their worst fear. In one of the many masterpieces by William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, the Capulets have a single daughter, Juliet, a beautiful young woman who is their only chance of carrying the Capulet name. Though through their actions and forbidden love, her life would meet a premature end of her own doing. While there are other argumentative cases for who causes the undoing of the star-crossed lovers, the blood wholly falls on the hands of Capulet parents as a result of their hatred of the Montagues, the negligence of Juliet, their only child, and forcing her to marry someone she does not love.
The main root of the

One could argue that this is not the Capulet parents’ fault. They would be partially correct, as Capulet and Lady Capulet did not cause this feud. However, they decide to carry it on until the terrible things it could cause force them to change. During a duel between Tybalt, a Capulet, and Romeo, a Montague, Romeo kills Tybalt, then flees the scene. When the Prince asks Benvolio, Romeo’s cousin who witnessed most of the fight, what happened, his response is dismissed entirely by Lady Capulet, telling the Prince, “He is a kinsman to the Montague; Affection makes him false” (Shakespeare III. i.169-170). The Prince, although listening to their arguments, banishes Romeo from Verona. Unfortunately, this is not the first time a fight has occurred between the two families. At the beginning of Romeo and Juliet, there is a large fight between

After Tybalt, Juliet’s cousin’s death, she, of course, was grieving. Noticing the amount of time she is mourning her cousin, Lady Capulet tells her, “Much of grief shows some want of wit” (Shakespeare III. v.73). This would make sense if she has been mourning for months. However, it has only been a single day since his death. When Juliet refuses to marry Paris, Capulet becomes upset with Juliet and believes she must listen. He yells angrily, “You green-sickness carrion! out, you baggage! You tallow-face!” (Shakespeare III. v.156-157). Capulet tells her that he will disown her if Juliet doesn’t go through with the marriage. Of course, something like this would cause tremendous psychological distress in Juliet, so when she reaches out to her mother, one would expect Lady Capulet to help Juliet with wise words of reassurance. However, she discards her anguish by telling her, “Talk not to me, for I’ll not speak a word. Do as thou wilt, for I have done with thee” (Shakespeare III. v.203-204). Throughout the play, Capulet and Lady Capulet think only about what they want for Juliet, never what she wants for