Violence Is To Blame In Shakespeare's Romeo And Juliet

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Tybalt and Lord Capulet are to Blame Violence doesn't solve anything. Violence will just to lead to more violence. This could be seen in Romeo and Juliet when the feud causes the death of Romeo, Juliet, Tybalt, Mercutio, and Lady Montague. The play is about Romeo and Juliet who are from two separate families that hate each other. Romeo and Juliet meet and fall in love at first sight. At the end of the play they die. Tybalt and Lord Capulet are to blame for the death of Romeo and Juliet. In shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, Tybalt is to blame for the deaths of Romeo and Juliet. First , Tybalt was apart of the family feud of Capulets and Montagues. Tybalt said ,¨Because I hate all montagues, fight coward(13).¨ If there wasn't a feud Romeo and Juliet wouldn't try to be together in secrete and wouldn't have died. Also Tybalt killed Mercutio. ¨You can join him! (87)¨ Tybalt said. If Tybalt didn't want to fight Romeo, Mercutio wouldn't be dead, Romeo wouldn't kill Tybalt and Romeo wouldn't be banished. If Romeo wasn't banished Juliet wouldn't drink a potion and Romeo wouldn't think he was dead then kill himself and …show more content…
Lord Capulet and other Capulets had a feud with Montagues. The Prince said, ¨This is the third time this has happened because of you Lord Capulet and Lord Montague! (17)¨ If Montagues and Capulets weren't fighting all the time Romeo and Juliet could be together in peace. Also Lord Capulet is to blame and Lord Montague had the power to stop this feud but they didn't until the end. Another reason Lord Capulet is to blame is because Lord Capulet rushed Juliet to marry Count Paris. Lord Capulet said , ¨we will have the wedding tomorrow morning!(125)¨ Lord Capulet rushing the marriage caused Juliet to drink the potion early and Romeo didn't get the news in time. This caused Romeo to kill himself and Juliet kill herself. Lord Capulet is the most to blame for the death of Romeo and

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