Why Is Lord Capulet To Blame For Romeo And Juliet's Death

Lord Capulet is to be blamed for Juliet and Romeo’s Death Romeo and Juliet, written by William Shakespeare, is a tragic love story about two “star-crossed” lovers who both ended their lives due to absurd and specific circumstances they were put in throughout their story. Romeo and Juliet are both from feuding families, the Capulets and the Montagues. Being born in these families, they were sworn to be enemies, but by dumb irony, these enemy family’s first-bornes met each other, and fell in love. Despite being destined to fall in love with each other, their situation only gets worse after they meet. In the story Romeo’s best friend gets murdered, and in retaliation Romeo kills Juliet's cousin, Tybalt, in turn getting him banished away from

“Good Father, I beseech you on my knees, / Hear me with patience but to speak a word /CAPULET /Hang thee, young baggage! Disobedient wretch! / I tell thee what: get thee to church 0' Thursday, / Or never after look me in the face. Speak not./ Reply not. Do not answer me.” (Act 3, Scene 5, lines 157-164). This section of Act 3, Scene 5 shows Lord Capulet's behavior towards Juliet, when Juliet does not agree with his proposition of marrying Paris. Lord Capulet not only yells at Juliet, saying awful things to his own daughter, also says if Juliet does not marry Paris, he will disown her. This action will cause Juliet, who is only 13/14 years old, to believe her parents do not love her, and will cause her to do things she wouldn't usually do. As shown in the next Act, Juliet takes a potion from the Friar and agrees to an overly specific plan, where she is doomed to die. If Lord Capulet never had yelled at Juliet, or just had listened to Juliet, Juliet would have not killed herself, and sequentially

Lord Capulet, even if his actions were once in good intent, did not execute his words well with Juliet. Juliet is a young woman whose mental state at the time was not fully developed. According to the National Institute of Health, a child's mental brain finishes developing mid-to-late 20s. It is inferred throughout the story that Juliet is headstrong, intelligent, and timid despite her age. After Lord Capulet yells at her, Juliet was clearly distressed telling the nurse,”o God!-O Nurse, how shall this be prevented? / My husband is on earth, my faith in heaven. / How shall that faith return again to earth, / Unless that husband sends it to me from heaven / By leaving earth? Comfort me. Counsel me.- / Alack, alack, that heaven should practice stratagems /Upon so soft a subject as myself.-” (Act 3, Scene 5 lines 205-211.) A UGA paper, published by Iris Lavi who is a leading researcher on child parenting, development, and psychology, states that her research has proves “Parents behavior during moments of conflict affected their children’s ability to cope with stress and problem solve in the future” This further explains Juliet's ignorant behavior after Scene 3, Act 5. Juliet agreed to a plan with Friar with a mysterious potion that she does not know if it will kill her.This contradicts her “inteligente” behavior in previous Acts. This ultimately leads to Juliet and