Society Suffocates True Love

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How would you feel if you were in love with someone but society didn’t think you should be together and your families don’t like each other at all? For example in the play Romeo and Juliet society didn’t help their love out nor did their families like each other and it ended with both of them dead.
Juliet’s family, the Capulet’s wanted Juliet to marry a charming man named Paris. They thought that he was a very nice man but they wanted him to marry her when she was finally old enough to get married because she was only 13. After a while though her parents were really wanting her to marry Paris she wouldn’t marry him though and her dad had told her if she did not marry him he would disown her. “But, an you will not wed, I’ll pardon you. Graze where you will, you shall not house with me. Look to’t, think on’t; I do not use to jest. Thursday is near; lay hand on heart, advise: An you be mine. I’ll give you to my friend; An you be not, hand, beg, starve, die in the streets” (3.4 215-220). Second of all her parents and Romeo’s parents and family did not like each other at all, there was no way her parents would approve of her being married to Romeo. In the end her parents are a big part of her death because if they wouldn’t have wanted her and Paris marrying each other she could have just secretly been married to Romeo without them knowing, or pressuring her to marry another person.
Romeo’s family the Montague’s , didn’t play a big part in the cause of both of them dying. One of the reasons though is that they didn’t like the Capulet’s family, they wouldn’t have approved of Romeo marrying Juliet so he didn’t want to tell them or make them mad. Although if Romeo’s family would have like the...

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...th the Country. O, he’s a lovely gentleman!” (3.5 241-247). Although her opinion did not change Juliet’s mine one bit.
This poem was a good example of how if your love cannot be accepted by society there is a good change that it will end up in tragedy. Romeo and Juliet had to keep their love a secret because their parents would not accept it, which ended in death for both Romeo and Juliet. If their love would have been accepted by their families and society it would have ended with them living together happily. For final conclusion I think that no matter who you love you should follow through with it, if there is any conflict try to do anything to stop that conflict or change it, because it would help out a lot.

Works Cited

Applebee, Arthur N. Romeo and Juliet. The Language of Literature. Evanston, IL: McDougai Littel, 2002. 990-1102. Print

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