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Lord Capulet Is To Blame In Shakespeare's Romeo And Juliet

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The novel Romeo and Juliet is a tragic story about forbidden love. Romeo and Juliet both came from healthy families and honored their name. One night they fell in love, but they couldn't be together due to their families’ rivalry that had been going on for years. Neither one of the families wanted to surrender or make peace. Romeo and Juliet later realized that they were from opposing families, but they did not care and went forward. Many characters could have been blamed for their deaths such as Friar Lawrence. Juliet’s father, Lord Capulet, was the one who is most to blame. He is to blame for the death of both Romeo and Juliet because he sent an illiterate servant to read the guest invited to the party, he didn’t remove Romeo from the party, …show more content…
It all started when he sent one of his illiterate servants to go out and read the names of the guest invited to a party that night in the Capulet household. “Go sirrah, trudge about through fair Verona; find those person out whose names are written there, and to them say, my house and welcome on their pleasure stay.” (1.2.10) Here Lord Capulet is commanding the servant, sirrah, to go through the Verona fair, and find the people who’s names are written on the list. When the servant got to the fair, he asked Romeo if he could read the names of the people, and as a sign of gratitude, he told Romeo that he could attend the party if he was not a …show more content…
Juliet told Lord Capulet she no longer wanted to marry Paris. At first, Lord Capulet acts like a good father. He tells Paris, the guy that wants to marry Juliet, that Juliet is not ready to marry him. Lord Capulet put him off and suggests that he should make his daughter fall in love with him. He changes his personality shortly after the novel passes. “God's bread, it makes me mad. Day, night, hour, tide, time, work, play, alone, in company, still my care hath been to have her matched. And having now provided a gentleman of noble parentage, of fair demesnes, youthful, and nobly ligned, stuffed, as they say, with honorable parts, proportioned as one's thought would wish a man; And then to have a wretched puking fool, a whining mammet, in her fortune’s tender, to answer I’ll not wed. I cannot love I am too young. I pray you, pardon me.’ But, an you will not wed, I'll pardon you Graze where you will you shall not house with me.” Lord Capulet thinks he's helping Juliet by engaging her to Paris, a young and good looking guy from a "noble" family. He believes he's being a loving father and is taking care of his daughter by ensuring her future with Paris. When Juliet refuses to marry Paris, he wasn’t very happy. His response was violent and harsh. He was physically and passively