Family Rivalry In Shakespeare's Romeo And Juliet

“Romeo and Juliet” by Shakespeare is a tragic love story about lovers whose love is forbidden, yet has a bitter ending when they both commit suicide for their love. Romeo and Juliet both fall madly in love with each other, but their families have had generations of feud. Romeo is confident that he loves Juliet and will do anything for their fondness. He would go as far as taking his life for her. Juliet later agrees to marry Romeo, Friar Lawrence only agrees to marry them because he thinks that will end the families rivalry. The only thing that ended the dispute were deaths of their adolescents. So because of the families feud they both took their lives for their proscribed love.

The Capulet and Montague did learn from their children's deaths. In Fact they actually realized that their fracas was pointless. Also that because of their dissension Romeo and Juliet died. They learned that they’re equally alike, and they accepted that the loathed family would always be there, so they might as well along. Further more they would have to make up because their family’s shouldn't of had to go through what happened to Romeo and Juliet. They would have let this mistake repeat in their generation because they have dignity when it comes to family.
If there was never enmity between the families they wouldn't have had to hide their love. This also wouldn't have had led to Friar Lawrence conceiving a plan to help Romeo and Juliet run off together. Therefore there was something to help prevent their deaths, but they were destined to die. Romeo and Juliet fates were connected, the fact their families were driven by hate pushed them together. If fate was real nothing could have crossed the star-crossed lovers fate. For this reason I think that they were destined to die, but if they weren't many things that could have prevented their