Comparison Of Sir Capulet To Blame For The Death Of Romeo And Juliet

Verona, Italy a city dominated by two families, the Capulets and the Montagues not only are they each extremely rich, they are also bitter rivals.Yet through all this tension Romeo (A Montague) and Juliet (Capulet) fall in love with each other, but in the end they take their own lives at the fault of Juliet’s father, Sir Capulet. He is the most responsible based on the fact that he let Romeo stay at his party even after Tybalt warned him that he was there, also he showed his stubbornness by not trying to end the feud between his family and even at times wanting to fight Sir Montague after being told specifically by the prince that their two families must resolve their feud or the will both be banished . Lastly he forced Juliet to marry Paris and even said that if she did not come to the wedding that he would disown her and no longer recognize her as family. These actions prove that Sir Capulet is the real reason for the death of Romeo and Juliet because he forced Juliet to marry Paris, was constantly feuding with the Montagues and he did not remove Romeo from his party.

In the last scene of act 1 Sir Capulet decides that he would
Due to these actions he caused the death of Romeo and Juliet, two people who never deserved the fate they were given but whose death was needed in order to bring peace to a city that had at one time been overcome by violence because of two feuding families that could not come to peace until the blood of their children was spilled. “A glooming peace this morning with it brings; the sun, for sorrow, will not show his head: Go hence, to have more talk of these sad things; Some shall be pardon’d and some punished: For never was a story of more woe than this of Juliet and her Romeo” Prince