Romeo And Juliet: Monatgue Family And The Capulet Family

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Raghda Al Feb. 27, 2024 Mueller. The play of The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet, starts with two families both alike in dignity, who are feuding also known as the Monatgue family and the Capulet family. Since the families are feuding the kids also have this hatred against each other, so many fights break whenever the two families meet, this leads to Verona being in danger, which forces the Prince to state that if they were to fight again that they would be sentenced to the death penalty. Furthermore, this cuts to Romeo who is a part of the Montague family, he is saddened about Rosaline. This then leads to Benvolio, his friend, telling him to attend the Capulet party with him. This is where Romeo and Juliet meet, they fall in love. Keep in mind …show more content…

Romeo attends Juliet's balcony, this is where they have a talk and Juliet ends it with telling him to marry her if he really loves her, the next day. Juliet knew this was a bad idea. My only love springs from my only hate! Too early to be seen, and too late to be known! That I must love a throated enemy. Romeo makes the decision to then agree to her and go to the Friar and get married in secret. This all happened in about 5-10 hours during the meeting. After their secret marriage, Tybalt, cousin of Juliet, goes to where the Montagues are to ask Romeo to duel with him; he was mad because he attended the party. This results in two deaths, Mercutio and Tybalt, both caused by Romeo’s impulsive choices. Romeo was then banished from Verona, he then moved to Mantua. After Tybalt's death, Lord Capulet forces Juliet to get married to Paris, which results Juliet into making the plan with Friar Lawrence, this wasn’t the best decision for Juliet because of how desperate she was, it resulted in the tragedy. Juliet made this choice freehand; nobody forced her to agree to the Friar to take the poison; she even denied it herself before doing it, so why did she take it? It was all up to her personal

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