The Consequences Of Romeo And Juliet

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Romeo and Juliet Essay

In life, it is important to consider the effects on others around you by your actions. In the story Romeo and Juliet, Lord Capulet and Lord Montague were unmindful of the way that their feud was affecting their children. Their deaths could have been caused by their outrageous actions, but those actions were the result of the tension between their two families. Lord Capulet and Lord Montague are the most at fault for the tragic fate of Romeo and Juliet, mostly because of the feud they started and kept alive for generations. Lord Capulet and Lord Montague created and maintained a very high-tension feud that caused Romeo and Juliet to not speak of their relationship, Romeo to kill Paris and Tybalt, and Juliet being forced to marry Paris, who she does not love, eventually leading to their deaths.
Lord Capulet and Lord Montague maintained a feud for decades that caused Romeo and Juliet to go through many struggles in their relationship. Both families fought for more money and power to move above each other. In the beginning, The Capulets’ servants started a brawl with the Montagues’ servants in which Benvolio, a cousin of the Montagues, broke up until Tybalt, a cousin of the Capulets came, and fought Benvolio. Members of both families showed up and wanted to fight, including Lord Capulet and Lord Montague who were too old to fight. In this scene, Lord Montague angrily shouts from across the court, “‘Thou villain Capulet! [now to his wife] Hold me not- let