In Shakespeare's play, Romeo and Juliet, the feud between the Capulets and the Montagues leads to envy and many secrets. Romeo and Juliet see each other in secrecy without the families knowing of their relationship. The discrimination between the houses, and the lack of hope between the fake lovers caused confusion between Romeo and Juliet. The decisions to commit suicide by Romeo and Juliet were fueled by anger, lust, and haste.…
For centuries, the Capulets and the Montagues had loathe each other. These two families hated one another for so long that they don’t remember why and who started it, but they continue to carry on this conflict till modern day. In “Romeo and Juliet,” the ancient grudge has erupted into a new violence which has later cause several deaths between the two families. However, Tybalt has pride and honors it making his hatred for the Montagues strong. The family’s rivalry has effected Tybalt because he wants to fight a Montague every time he came across one which could lead to his sudden death.…
“Three civil brawls,bred of an airy word By thee, old Capulet, and Montague, Have thrice disturbed the quiet of our streets and made Verona’s ancient citizens Cast by their grave beseeming ornaments”. (1,1,80) These famous lines were spoken by Prince in Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, these lines demonstrate how the feud between the Capulets and Montagues and how the drama between these two families prevented the forbidden love Romeo and Juliet from getting married. The feud was started centuries before Romeo & Juliet and still went on within their time honestly if it weren’t for the feud the play would be highly monotonous if it wasn’t for the misunderstanding between the two families most of the fights and deaths would cease to exist. Such…
The Montagues and the Capulets had a feud between the families and they reason for the feud was unknown. They just hate each other for no apparent reason and this cause Romeo and Juliet to keep their marriage a secret. “Now, by the stock and honor of my kin,/To strike him dead I hold it not a sin”(Shakespeare 1.5.58-59). Tybalt would have killed Romeo if Lord Capulet did not stop and that is just because he was threatened by the Prince. If he would not be affected by the death Lord Capulet would have let him be killed. If this was their reaction for Romeo just showing at a party just imagine how he would react to Romeo marrying his one daughter. In addition, when Juliet wanted to not get married to Paris she was forced to do it anyways. Her feelings were completely disregarded by her father if she tried to marry the enemy, the Montagues, there was no way possible her father would have allowed it. Therefore, the families feuding just help to escalate the tension and lead to Romeo and Juliet's…
For Romeo and Juliet there was never really a chance at a good and healthy marriage because of the family feud. In Verona, everything usually ends in violence also because of this family feud. It is also responsible for most of the actions in this story. Some examples are: The secret marriage, Romeo’s banishment, and Friar’s Scheme to help Romeo and Juliet get married. Romeo’s parents are not as pushy than Juliet’s parents. When Romeo is banished from Verona, it makes Lady Montague so unhappy she dies of grief. Juliet’s parents are pushy because they want her to marry Paris, who is related to the Prince of Verona. Also Paris was a really loving man, like when he…
In Verona, Italy there are two families, the Montagues and Capulets, feuding over a long time grudge. Romeo and Juliet optically discerned one another, and instantly fell in love. They were so in love with one another that they got espoused. Since both families were not verbalizing with one another they had to keep their espousement a secret. Romeo gets ostracized from Verona, and Juliet is devastated that she has to espouse someone else. In all the chaos, Tybalt, the Nurse, and Friar Laurence are to be incriminated for the death of the love birds. William Shakespeare utilizes the characters action to demonstrate blame in the deaths of the star-crossed doters in the play “Romeo and Juliet.”…
First, if they did not have a feud Tybalt would have never challenged Romeo to a duel. It was the feud that made Tybalt hate the Montagues. He thought that because Romeo was a Montague he should have never went to the party and it made him angry that he did. Next, Juliet’s family hated Romeo more after he killed Tybalt. Romeo did not have a chance at seeing Juliet, if her family saw him they wanted him dead because they thought the banishment was not enough of a punishment for killing Tybalt. Lastley, Lady Capulet said “For blood of ours shed blood of Montague,” when she learned Romeo killed Tybalt. They wanted Romeo dead after they heard he killed Tybalt. Juliet could not let her family know that she just married Romeo because they would never approve and they could not see each other. Since they couldn’t see each other Juliet made a plan for them to escape together but it failed and Romeo ended up killing himself before she woke up and then she killed herself. They could not see each other because of the long lasting feud and because of that Romeo and Juliet ended up both committing…
Romeo and Juliet is a tragic story of two young lovers doomed from the beginning. In this tragic tale, the parents of the two teenagers are usually assumed to be the most at fault for what occurred within those few days. Many people believe that the kids were innocent victims in the whole situation, and none of those events would have occurred if the parents wouldn’t have been so idiotic and made such hasty decisions. These people most often can agree that the leaders of the Montague and Capulet families are the only ones left to punish in this situation. After all, they were the ones who put everyone in this situation. The parents do deserve a lot of blame, but they are not the only ones who deserve it, and the kids were not mere innocent…
The Montague and Capulet family feud played a very important role in this film. As Romeo is from the Montague family and Juliet is from the Capulet family it was obviously going to be hard for the two to pursue the love they shared for each other. Tybalt, member of the Capulet family despises Romeo to the max and is out to kill him. A fight between the two ended in Romeo killing Tybalt causing the Capulet family to hate Romeo even more and the Prince of Verona banishing Romeo. Romeo being…
“Servants of the two families have just been arguing in the street and are about to brawl when they are spotted by Benvolio, Romeo’s cousin and our friend." Said the narrator ( page 2). The family feud is to blame for Juliet and Romeo deaths. Romeo and Juliet have to keep it secret, that they dating, so there parent don't find out. They end up running away together and they do get secretly married. Instead they end up in the tomb together. In the beginning Tybalt and Mercutio are the ones who started the fight in the beginning of the story when they were at the party.…
Some of the evidence from the play states that the family’s hatred is responsible for the tragedies. At the party, Juliet meets Romeo and they fall in love. After they kiss, Juliet finds out that Romeo is a Montague and is horrified because they cannot be together due to their family feud. “My only love sprung from my only hate (Act I, scene 5, line 138)” This quote says that the only person she has loved is the only person she has to hate. Even though the hate is of his name and not his person. This is the reason they cannot be together. It is almost as if their love is cursed. That they shall not be together no matter how much they love each other even if it cost them their life.…
In Romeo and Juliet, a long feud between the Montague and Capulet families disrupts the city of Verona and…
Conflicts make the world go around, but when is conflict reaching the point where family relationships are affected? In Shakespeare’s The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet, both the Montague and Capulet families experience conflicts that in return, leave long lasting effects on their families. While many people may argue that the feuding between the families in the play cannot be used as a relative argument, Shakespeare uses this to prove that conflicts often do not need to be taken to extremes. When conflicts are taken to these extremes, family relationships are often times injured in the process of resolving the issue. Not only does this appear many places in the past, the same problem of conflicts reaching extremes still happens, and happens quite often, in the modern world. In many cases, parents and children have different views on these conflicts, which causes their…
Their family feud is also the cause of Romeo and Juliet’s death. “My only love sprung my only hate” Juliet says because they cannot be together. Then Romeo and Juliet could have been together and none of this would have happened. The feud also caused Romeo’s banishment from Verona. If the families did not have a feud then nobody would have died and Romeo would not have been banished. The feud between the two families caused a lot of deaths. If the families did not have a feud then Tybalt would not have started the fight and killed Mercutio. That is why the family feud is to blame for Romeo and Juliet’s…
In the play The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet, written by William Shakespeare, two families, the Capulets and the Montagues, have a strong hatred for each other. In the beginning of the play, people learn that Romeo Montague had his heart broken by a woman named Rosaline. Later, he met Juliet at a party and they fell in love. A few moments later they found out that their families were rivals, but they didn’t care because they wanted to be with each other. So the following day, Juliet insisted that they get married and so they did. They went to Friar Lawrence, the priest, and even though he didn’t want to go through with it, he believed that the marriage might have brought the families together. Later, Juliet’s father forced her to marry…