Imagine being betrayed by the ones you care about. In Shakespeare’s play, Roemo and Juliet, The play faces many types of betrayal such as families betraying lover,lovers betraying families wishes, and lovers betraying each other. Shakespeare points out his views on many people being betrayed.
The first to betray juliet is her parents, Capulet and Lady Capulet. Capulet decides to marry Juliet to paris. when Juliet refuses to do so Capulet threatens to disown her. Capulet will only forgive her if she with consent to her fathers decison. His wife Lady Capulet refuses to give Juliet consel and is angered by Juliets choice and wishes. Juliet gets denial from her parents for marrying the guy she truly loves. After being denied Juliet turns to nurse for comfort and help. While Juliet is getting assistance from the nurse, she also fails to support Juliets decision not to marry Paris. Converstating with the nurse Juliet fails to get support from the nurse on marrying Romeo and is encouraged to marry Paris.
Romeo and Juliet betray there parents wishes by getting married without there consent. Since both of the families loth each other, It is aganist there family traditions for the two families to have any type of relations with each other. Romeo didn’t obey any of the families wishes when he snuck into the Capulets party to see Rosaline, instead he saw Juliet and from that point on he instantly fell in love with her. After meeting Juliet, Romeo snuck over to her house to express how he felt about her.They spent hours talking and decided that it would be wise if they got married the next day even though it was clearly aganist there parents wishes. Romeo betrayed Juliet by killing her cousin only two hours after marrying her. He killed her cousin Tybalt. When Tybalt and Mercutio were fighting and he killed Mercutio. So for revenge Romeo went after Tybalt and killed him. The fight started because Tybalt wanted to get back at