Romeo & Juliet by William Shakespeare
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The role of the family in Romeo & Juliet is the most important plot of the play because the feuding families ended up being the downfall and the roadblock of the play. If it had not been for the battle between the Capulets and the Montagues, the ending of Romeo & Juliet would have been different.
Romeo & Juliet the play was written by the famous William Shakespeare to inform us of forbidden love between two lovers that could not be together because of their familys dignity. As said in the (prologue) “Two households, both alike in dignity, in fair Verona, where we lay our scene, from ancient grudge break to new munity. Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean. The fearful passage of their death marked love, and continuance of their parents, which but their childrens end naught, could remove”. This statement means both families are from Verona, they are the same dignity but they have been feuding for a long time. The feud of both families is what makes the play so interesting because it plays a huge conflict in the play. In Romeo & Juliet, the family feud is responsible for everything, far as the death of Romeo & Juliet. If there wasn’t a family feud, the R&J wouldn’t have needed to hide their love. In (act IV, scene 1, lines 1-9) it says, “Hold, daughter. I do spy a kind of hope, which craves as desperate an execution. As that is desperate which we would prevent. If rather than to marry County Paris, Thou hast the strength of will to slay thyself, Then it is likely thou wilt undertake a thing like death to chide away this shame, that copest with death himself to scape from it. And if thou darest, Ill give thee remedy”. This evidence shows Friar Lawrence had to create a plan to escape so they could be together without their family.
If the Capulets and the Montagues had stopped fighting, R&J would have lived happily. After both R&J died the Montagues and the Capulets realized the causes and affects of their feud is what caused the impossible to take place. After the death of R&J both families solved their problem after the lost of both R&J. In (act V, scene 1, lines 3-8) it says, “But I can give thee more: For I will raise her statue in pure gold, That whiles Verona by that name is known, There shall no figure at such rate be set as that of true and faithful Juliet. As rich shall Romeos by his ladys lie poop sacrifices of our enmity!” This gives evidence that they stood over the bodies of their children and the family joined hands and they started to tell there parts of the tragedy. But it wasn’t only the feuding that lead to the death of both lovers; they both lead themselves to death. It is the fault of R&J because they were the ones that made bad decisions within the play. Both lovers chose to love each other and