Lord Capulet In Shakespeare's Romeo And Juliet

Romeo and Juliet were two young people from feuding families, who fell in love. Their love was so strong, that they ended up dying for each other. The ironic twist at the end of the story surprised many who had read it. But who is to blame for this tragedy? Many characters in this play could be to blame. We believe that some of the characters to blame are Capulet, Friar Lawrence, plus Romeo and Juliet themselves.

Romeo and Juliet is a play by William Shakespeare that tells a tragic tale of “star crossed lovers” doomed to die. The tragic end of the play is the result of the irresponsible actions and selfishness ok key characters in the play, the Nurse and the Friar. Another person in the play but isn’t responsible for the death of Romeo and Juliet was Mercutio, but his actions were rash and premature.

Lois Kerschen, a college English professor stated, “...the love of Romeo and Juliet was too ideal to survive in this imperfect world, it would seem a shame to think of true, passionate love inevitably leading to a bad result”(Kerschen 1). “Thy love did read by rote and could not spell. But come, young waverer, come, go with me, in one respect I'll thy assistant be; for this alliance may so happy prove, to turn your households' rancour to pure love”(Act 3.2). Even though the Friar was trying to bring the two families together by marrying Romeo and Juliet, he should have known that it was going to bring stress to both Romeo and Juliet. He should not have encourage “forbidden

Juliet’s parents’ lack of knowledge of their daughter’s love life contributes to her death. In Act 3 Scene 5 Lady Capulet walks in on Juliet crying and assumes the tears are for her deceased cousin Tybalt. Shakespeare uses dramatic irony while Lady Capulet and Juliet speak about Romeo. Juliet says to her mother “Indeed, I shall never be satisfied / With Romeo, till I behold him –dead” The reader knows, while Lady Capulet is unaware, that Juliet is speaking about him in a loving way rather than wishing him dead. Also in this scene Lady and Lord Capulet tell Juliet that they have arranged for her to marry Paris. When Juliet refuses her father yells at her and accuses her of being ungrateful. The Capulets are not aware that Juliet is already married therefore are not understanding of her wishes to

A story that is full of love, feud, haste and fate all wrapped into one. Where two star crossed lovers take their lives. The play Romeo and Juliet written by William Shakespeare is regarding Romeo Montague and Juliet Capulet with a tragic outcome. This tale ends with the two lovers taking their lives. There are so many experiences leading up to this but who is to blame for these horrific events? Characters such as the Capulets and Montagues, Tybalt and Romeo are all to blame for the deaths of Juliet and her Romeo.

In Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare presents many different aspects of Lord Capulet's personality in a wide variety of ways.

Tybalt surprisingly stabbed Mercutio under Romeo's arm and it, unfortunately, killed him. ¨Help me into some house, Benvolio, Or I shall faint. A plague o´ both your houses! They have made worms´ meat of me. I have it, And soundly too. Your houses!¨ (3.1.104-107). These were Mercutio's final words before he died. This was his way of cursing both the Capulet and Montague families because of what had happened. If there was no feud between the two families from the start there would have been piece for Verona, for the families. They all would've gotten along and there wouldn't have been so much hate coming from Tybalt to cause him to kill Mercutio.

Similar to a parasite, Juliet, the daughter of Capulet and Lady Capulet in the play Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare, is a character who is very dependent and doesn’t formulate her own opinion. So, throughout the course of the story, Juliet develops her own thoughts and continuously becomes more independent according to the experiences she faces, consisting of disobeying her parents, falling deeply in love with Romeo and finally accomplishing her liberty.

Mercutio is the best friend of Romeo Montague in William Shakespeare’s, Romeo and Juliet. He is known as the life of the party, because he’s lighthearted and always fun to be around. Mercutio’s death brings about a lot of chaos for Verona but, because of his childish ways, he’s responsible for his own death. He never took anything seriously, couldn’t control his anger, and he never walked away from altercations, he had to have the last word.

Mercutio taunted, “O calm, dishonorable, vile submission! Tybalt, you ratcatcher, will you walk?” The fight was started by Mercutio and his hot-headed nature. Because Mercutio picked the fight with Tybalt, he forced Romeo’s hand to fight with Tybalt and got Romeo exiled! Because of the exile, the Friar and Juliet had to make a plan to get the two lovers together. The plan, caused by the fight, ended up leading to the death of Romeo and Juliet. Again, Mercutio’s selfish actions managed to lead into the reason of the couple's’

Mercutio wanted to help Romeo and Mercutio strongly believed that if Romeo went to the party then he will be fine, “I mean, sir, in delay we waste our lights in vain, like lights by day! Take our good meaning, for our judgment, sits five times in that ere once in our five wits” (I. iv. 44-47). Mercutio is the primary reason that Romeo went to the Caplets party, Mercutio suggests that Romeo needed a distraction in order to get Rosaline off his mind. When Mercutio’s group went the party it started a chain reaction of bad decisions made by Mercutio and Romeo, the decisions made had a damaging effect. Mercutio is one of the participants of the bad decision making. He made a devastating decision when he invited to fight him, “And thou make mysteries of us, look look to hear nothing but discords. Here’s to my fiddlestick, here’s that shall make you dance. Sounds, consort!” (III.i.43-45). When Mercutio’s ego is threatened he does what he needs to protect it and himself and he fights Tybalt to prove that he is strong. Mercutio chooses to fight and he is aware that Tybalt is a trained brawler, but he ignores that and meets his end. In the play, Mercutio makes a dramatic decision that changes the story drastically and his acts hurt others around

William Shakespeare’s classic tragedy demonstrates the adversities that challenge ‘a pair of star-crossed lovers’ (Prologue, Line 6). While unchangeable fate fueled the outcome of the capricious events, one character allowed it an effortless journey. It is Lord Capulet who is irrefutably responsible for the demise of Romeo and Juliet. His belligerent, aloof and impulsive nature contributed to the culmination of the play.

In Romeo and Juliet, Mercutio is always so courteous to Romeo. He will defend Romeo no matter the circumstances. For example, after Romeo is married to Juliet, Tybalt tries to fight him. When Romeo repeatedly declines because Tybalt is now part of his family, Tybalt would not relent. Mercutio witnesses this and defends Romeo by taking his place in the duel.

Mercutio is a relative of the prince and friend to Romeo. He is an eloquent man and becomes the center of attention whenever he appears in the play. It seems like he dominates Romeo with his teasing and irony. He mocks Romeo as he thinks he is too sentimental and tells him how foolish he is; he turns all of Romeo’s thought about love into sexual metaphors.

Lord and Lady Capulet are the parents of Juliet and have a great love for their only daughter. The Capulet parents do not show their love in the typical way at the beginning of the play and the fact that Juliet does not realize their love influences her choices. Capulet believes he is doing the right thing for his daughter by marrying her to Count Paris. Lord Capulet states: “O’ Thursday let it be: o’ Thursday, tell her, She shall be married to this noble earl” (III. iv, 20-21). He thinks he is doing the right thing for his daughter; this marriage might cheer her up because he supposes she is sad about her cousin’s death. Juliet does not recognize her parents are acting the way they are is out of love and she may have made less extreme decisions. Towards the end after the tragic death of their