Not including Romeo or Juliet, the whole Montague and Capulet family is to blame. If Lord Capulet had not made Juliet marry Paris like it says here,”Marry, My child, early next Thursday morn/The gallant, young, and noble gentleman,/The County Paris…”(3.5.112-114), then she would not have bought the poison so she could fake her death and be with Romeo. If their families had not started the feud, then Romeo could have married Juliet without any affairs in the way and no one would have been killed. Mercutio would be alive because Tybalt would not have detested the Montagues. Tybalt would be alive because Romeo would not have been angry with him for killing his best friend, Mercutio. Paris would also be alive because he would not have fought with Romeo at the tomb of Juliet. …show more content…
Because of her young age like it says here,”She’s not fourteen./I’ll lay fourteen of my teeth,/And yet, to my teen be it spoken, I have but four,/She’s not fourteen”(1.3.12-15), she does not have the decision making abilities to know that Romeo is the right person to marry. She needs to be older and have spent more time with him to truly know. She also jumps to rash decisions when her father, Lord Capulet, decides that she has to marry Paris. If she would not have said that the only choice was to kill herself if she had to marry Paris, and talked about the situation with her parents there would have been a different