Romeo And Juliet: Who's To Blame?

It is always said that a parent would die for their children’s happiness, but what if a child died because of their parents preventing their happiness? In the play, Juliet decided to fake her death. The argument is: who exactly is to blame? The true perpetrator, or perpetrators in this case, are none other than Juliet’s own parents. Though there are many other suspects, the plan here is to prove the case for Lord and Lady Capulet as the two and only true aggressors towards Juliet’s faked suicide with a few simple points.

The biggest point to make help this bold claim is the infamous Capulet-Montague feud seen throughout the entire story. (Include quote from prologue). Some may say that the Capulet family wasn’t the root of the feud or were
While this claim probably has never crossed the mind of anyone reading Romeo and Juliet, it could be a possibility that this is a true claim. Remembering how Juliet and her parents interacted with each other in the few scenes that they did talk, they both weren’t exactly good ones. In the first scene where Juliet was introduced, we got to see how Juliet interacted with both her Nurse and her mother. She didn’t exactly speak to Juliet like a mother but more as one acquaintance to another, no real hint of love. Now, one may argue this might have been the style of the day back then, but viewing even the modern text, it seems off to how a mother should talk to her daughter. Comparing how Lady Capulet speaks to and of Juliet to how the Nurse speaks to and of Juliet, it seems more motherly. One should also keep in mind that Juliet had been raised with many nurses, suggesting that her mother wasn’t ever really around to take care of her. This might have halted or stilted the bond that is supposed to be made between a child and a mother, this bond being formed between Juliet and the nurses, not with her mother. The evidence of a possible abusive or rocky family life with the Capulets is more clearly seen between Lord Capulet telling Juliet that she is to be wed to Paris. Putting aside the fact that Lord Capulet said to wait at least two summers before thinking about marriage but came to Juliet not even a full week afterwards to tell her she was to marry Paris, when he did so, he flew off the handle and berated her to no end for kindly refusing the offer. (Include quote of him insulting her). Isn’t it the least bit odd that just hearing the word ‘no’ to his idea of forced marriage made Lord Capulet so angry that he threatened to kick Juliet out onto the streets and disown