Lady Capulet Responsible For Romeo And Juliet's Death

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The tragic love story of “Romeo and Juliet” (Shakespeare) is based on a feud between two noble families, the Capulets, and the Montagues.This feud results in the death of their children Romeo and Juliet.However, who is responsible for their deaths.The answer is many but, The Capulets and the Nurse played a huge part in Juliet's death by failing to understand her.

Lord and Lady Capulet may have loved Juliet but they did lack in showing that love to her.In scene 1 act 3 Lady Capulet talks to Juliet about marriage.She was saying things like “younger girls than you from well-respected families in Verona, already have babies of their own”(Macdonald), even though Juliet made it clear that marriage was something that she had not thought about lady

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