Lord Capulet To Blame For The Death Of Romeo And Juliet

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If you are truly meant to be together life will find a way to make it happen," said by Anonymous. The tragedy play of Romeo and Juliet was written by William Shakespeare, this story is about two families feuding and young forbidden love that leads to death. Romeo and Juliet kill themselves so they could be together forever and always. Even though they are dead their love will forever be a never forgotten story that'll live on. The untimely deaths of Romeo and Juliet were ultimately caused by the long term family feud as Lord Capulet.
Lord Capulet is to blame for Romeo and Juliets death. "Juliet’s father, old Capulet, has decided that Juliet should marry Paris in two days. Juliet resists when he tells her" said by the narrator page 12. Lord Capulet is trying to make Juliet marry Paris when he knows she is in love with Romeo which causes her to run away and kill herself to fake her death and Romeo thinks she's dead so he kills himself then Juliet wakes up and sees Romeo dead and kills herself. Lord Capulet said that she wasn't allowed to marry Romeo and she
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"People are calling, “Down with the Capulets! Down with the Montagues!” Old Capulet and Montague arrive and threaten each other" said by the narrator on page 3. This shows how serious this family feud was between the two families. Which causes Ro ego and Juliet to want to run away. Juliet does this by faking her death and Romeo sees her and kills himself and she wakes up then stabs herself. This causes Romeo to get banished from even seeing Juliet and what causes her to fake her death and leads to her suicide. The family feud caused Romeo and Juliets death by without it everything could've been avoiding and none of this would've happened and Romeo and Juliet could've gotten married and been fine. Even though Lady Capulet played a role in the deaths Lord Capulet was more to

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