“From forth the fatal loins of these two foes,
A pair of star-crossed lovers take their life.
Whose misadventured piteous overthrows
Doth with their death bury their parents’ strife.” (Shakespeare Prologue) Romeo and Juliet is a story of love and death where two fated lovers kill themselves because of family strife and the cause of their deaths goes deeper than just the two killing themselves. In this story based in Verona, two families, the Montagues, and the Capulets, whom are very rich, have a feud that has lasted since long before any of the families have memory of. Two teenagers, one from each family, fall in love, and end up taking their own lives because Juliet was being forced to marry Prince Paris. This causes the play to go into a downward spiral, and although Romeo and Juliet kill themselves, Juliet's cousin, Tybalt, is the real killer.
Tybalt is the one that sparks the feud between the Capulets and the Montagues again. At a Capulet party, Tybalt sees Romeo, and says, “This, by his voice, should be a Montague. - Fetch me my rapier boy” (Shakespeare 1.5.52). Tybalt is angry that Romeo shows up at the Capulet party and he gets angry because of the feud between the …show more content…
Capulet says to Tybalt. “Go to, go to. you are a saucy boy. Is’t so, indeed? This trick may chance to scathe you, I know what. You must contrary me” (Shakespeare 1.5.82). The Capulet lord gets mad at Tybalt for his outburst, and through gathering all this proof, we can see that. Tybalt was the first to kill, Tybalt is the reason why the feud sparked again, and without Tybalt, Romeo would’ve never been banished, and therefore, not only would Romeo and Juliet not have died, but every single person in the play who died, would have