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Love comes with plenty obstacles, however this plays love led to death. William Shakespeare authorized the play, “Romeo and Juliet.” Romeo and Juliet are the two main who were deeply in love with each other. This play is about how the deaths of Romeo and Juliet came to be. These two characters had to go through a lot to be together, because of the rivalry the two families had. The Capulets are the ones to blame for the deaths of Romeo and Juliet because they stressed Juliet to get married, Tybalt started a brawl with the Montagues, and they expected Juliet to live up to societal expectations. To begin with, Juliet’s parents stressed her to get married at the age of 13. Lady Capulet told Juliet to get married to Paris, but that wasn’t what Juliet wanted. Lord Capulet threatened Juliet is she didn’t get married to Paris. Document D stated, “Get thee to church o’ Thursday, or never look me in the face.” If lord Capulet would’ve never threatened Juliet to get married, she would’ve never gotten so angry and left to get a potion from Friar Lawrence. If lady and lord Capulet never stressed Juliet to get married on Thursday, a lot could’ve been prevented. Juliet only wanted more time to get married, but they wouldn’t even give that to her. …show more content…
Tybalt came looking for a fight and he got one by killing Mercutio, which really stirred the pot. That made Romeo so angry that he too, chooses to fight with Tybalt. Act 3 scene 1 stated, “Boy, your words can’t excuse the harm you’ve done to me. So now turn and draw your sword.” This quote is evidence that Tybalt started the fight. Tybalt started the fight with Mercutio and he caused disruption to the streets of Verona. Tybalt starting the chaos led to Romeo being banished from

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