Shakespeare opens the play with the Montague and Capulet boys fighting, showing that he wants the readers to understand how strong the hate between the two families are. The first scene of the play consists of Tybalt shouting, “Talk of peace? I hate the word!”
The deep amount of secrets in the play causes a lot of mind mystery which makes you think about whether the deaths of Romeo and Juliet were their own, or whether it was the fault of someone else.
The feud
The feud is the reason Romeo and Juliet can’t be together in peace, and have to lie and sneak around. If both the families had ended the feud then non-of this would be taking place. But because Romeo and Juliet had to lie and go behind their family’s back drove them to death. They wouldn’t have had to pretend to be dead just so they could be happy and be with the one they love. Both families could’ve supported them and been there for them whilst they were going through the love stage in their lives. Instead they hated each other and couldn’t be bothered to sort out their pathetic little problem that is costing men, women and even children their lives.
Friar Lawrence
Friar Lawrence was neither Montague nor Capulet, so he did not take sides in the feud. He agreed to marry Romeo and Juliet because he and the nurse knew it was love. They didn’t like the thought of a name to come between love. He also thought that if he did marry the teenagers, there was a chance both families would see sense and understand that they can’t keep up this behavior and make peace between them. He said to Romeo and Juliet, “For this alliance may so happy prove to turn your households rancor into pure love”. If he hadn’t married them they could’ve had more time to think things threw and realize that they should talk to more people about it before rushing into things, meaning they wouldn’t have died because there wouldn’t have been any need to pretend to be dead
Lady Capulet
Lady Capulet, the mother of Juliet Capulet does not give her daughter any support or help when Juliet reveals that she does not want to be married to Paris. All Lady Capulet can say to her, as her father approaches is, “Here comes your father, tell him so yourself”. This shows that she does not want any thing to do with what her daughter feels and what makes her happy. For she is only thinking about herself and her respect of the family name.
Lord Capulet
Lord Capulet the father of Juliet Capulet is to blame because of the grudge between him self and the lord of the other family. If they had been civil beings and sorted out their problems and Romeo and Juliet could have been married with out the sneaking around and be happy with the support of their families. Juliet knew he fathers rule about marriage, and now that Lord Capulet had found a young man for Juliet to marry there was no way out apart from to lie. Her father had threatened, “Get thee to church a Thursday or never look me in the face” So if Juliet did have her heart set on spending her love with Romeo, the idea of faking death seemed very logical.
Conclusion
I think after reading the book through carefully that it was the fault of the feud, and the parents. I think they were all to be blamed just never admitted. If the feud hadn’t been such a big thing that had been passed on from generation to generation then mabey they could’ve been civil to one another. But it was also the families’ fault, the people who could’ve been sincere enough to try and stop the feud, and see sense. Not just for Romeo and Juliet’s sake but for everyone in Verona. So everyone could live in peace with out thought that there could be death all because of the family they belong to.
