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Romeo And Juliet Who To Blame Essay

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Who to blame A young teenage couple from rival families dies due to the rival’s family feud. Romeo and Juliet was a book written years ago about two young lovers from rival families who get in the way of their relationship resulting in their death. The young girl Juliet has a potion to fake her death but it goes wrong in the blink of an eye. The Montague and Capulets are two families with a very toxic relationship resulting in their children taking their own lives. One of the many and main reasons to blame the families is because they could've just let Juliet and Romeo get married in peace but because they disapproved of each other’s families they had to go behind their family's backs which led them to do a lot of wrong things to get married …show more content…

You disobedient wretch! I’ll tell you what. Go to church on Thursday or never look me in the face again. Don’t say anything. Dont’t reply. Don’t talk back to me (Juliet rises) I feel like slapping you. Wife, we never thought ourselves blessed that God only gave us this one child. But now I see that this one is one too many. We were cursed when we had her. She disgusts me, the little hussy!” (Act 3, scene 5, lines 160-165) The quoted evidence shows how Capulet is speaking badly and is very hurtful to his daughter. The quote relates because it shows how badly he was speaking to her which can make her feel very badly about herself and how she has to go behind her family's back to get married. Another time the Capulets were mean to Juliet was when Lady Capulet said “Will you cry about your cousin’s death forever? Are you trying to wash him out of his grave with tears? If you could, you couldn’t bring him back to life. So stop crying. A little bit of grief shows a lot of love. But too much grief makes you look stupid.” (Act 3, Scene 5, Lines 70) In this scene Juliet's mother lady Capuet is shaming Juliet for being emotional and “crying too much” over Juliet’s cousin Tybalt's

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In Romeo and Juliet, the tragedy written by William Shakespeare, both Romeo and Juliet killed themselves, but others are to blame. The Capulet family, Friar Lawrence and Tybalt all share blame. The Capulet’s share blame for the deaths because they were uptight and did not support or care about Juliet’s feelings. As an example, when Juliet told her father that she did not want to marry Paris, he said, “To answer, “I’ll not wed; I cannot love, I am too young; I pray you pardon me.’

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