A pimple on picture day, falling flat on your face in front of your crush, getting a 70% on heavy weighted assignment. These are the bringers of bad days that are so bad, you might even call them tragedies. Yet none of these can compare to the tragedy of these two star crossed lovers. Romeo and Juliet, written by the infamous William Shakespeare arguably the greatest tragedy of all time. Filled with darring swords fights and dead lovers that died too young.
Some people may think that this tragic ending could have easily been avoided by wiser decisions from this couple, but that is not true. The families of Romeo and Juliet are solely to blame for the deaths of the two lovers.
As the play opens, Sampson and Gregory, two Capulet men, prance the streets of Verona chatting about horrible things they will do if they encounter some Montagues. “I / will push Montague’s men from the wall and thrust his / maids to the wall” (1.1.15-17). It shows how intense and brutal the hate these families have for eachother. It is obvious if the idiotic feud did not exist Romeo and Juliet would not have to hide their love for each other, thus lessening the death count of this story.
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In the beginning Lady Capulet is portrayed as a caring woman that is respective of her daughters freedom. She gently eases Juliet to consider marrying Paris, who she so greatly approves of. In Act 1, Lady Capulet says “What say you? Can you love the gentleman?” (1.3.81). All this love and consideration goes out the window when the family is given a chance to improve their social status. Juliet is suddenly forced against her will to marry Paris. Juliet is on her knees begging and crying but her parents see her as ungrateful and rebellious. This marriage is what forced Juliet to to flee to Friar Laurence which led to her untimely