Romeo and Juliet
... was no consent from the parents of either. It seems like he did it only to help end the feud. He also gave fair Juliet the potion with artificial death in it and helped hide her and Romeo so they could have their alone time. Even though he had good intentions, he made a disastrous and devastating mess out of it. At the end of the play, he even gives himself up the authorities and says that he will pay for his life because he had made all of this devastation possible; he basically begs for punishment with his life. “Miscarried by my fault, let my old life Be sacrificed some hour before this time Unto the vigor of severest law. [5.3. 266-268] The love struck Romeo had much to do with his and his lover’s deaths. Romeo was so vulnerable and naive to jump on the Juliet train that the obsession got out of control! He went behind his parents’ back and his friends and married a Capulet, he went to the Capulets’ party when he should not have been there, and he pushed Juliet into love. Romeo also said in this quote that they should just kill him and not let him do something else that will mess up his and Juliet’s lives. Let them affright thee, I beseech thee, youth, Put not another sin upon me head By urging me to fury. O, be gone!” [5.3. 61-63] Juliet’s family, the Capulets, had much more to do with the emotional play than the Montagues. The Capulets verbally abused Juliet when it came to her future and the decisions she needed to make. They also were going to pursuit making her wed the County Paris, when there was clearly no love there at all. The Capulets, along with the Montagues though, let the ridiculous feud go on and continue into the generation of their children and, if this play had not have happened, would have continued into the next generation. Capulet, at the end of the story, confesses that he and Montague have been holding this grudge too long and that their actions have led to the u...