The Fates of the Remaining Three....

I think that after Romeo and Juliet die, Lord Capulet is deeply upset. He begins to question whether he made the right decision in not letting Juliet marry her true love. I think that if it hadn't been "wrong" to marry into a feuding family, that Lord Capulet would have considered letting Juliet marry Romeo. Also I think that Lord Capulet wanted everyone to remember the story of Romeo and Juliet and the extent they went to so they could marry each other, so that no other family would have to go through what they went through. Lord Capulet said at the end of the book, "I'll put up an equally rich statue of Romeo beside Juliet's. They are poor sacrifices of our feud," (Shakespeare 302). I think that after loosing his daughter, and his wife killing herself out of grief, that Lord Capulet goes to the tomb, and while their, he sees the dagger that Juliet killed herself with. He is so lonely without his family and kills himself because of the agony he feels inside him.

After Juliet dies, I think Nurse feels as though she could have stopped their deaths, but chose not to for her and Friar Lawrence's sakes. She probably didn't want to be punished for helping Juliet to disobey her parents. Feeling as though she had lost her own child after all the years she took care of her, Nurse probably fled from Verona out of fear and found a new family to live with and take care of. She was looking for a fresh start.





Friar Lawrence feels as though he could have prevented Romeo's and Juliet's too. I think that Lord Capulet finds out that Friar Lawrence had helped in Romeo and Juliet's secret marriage. Lord Capulet is so angered at Friar Lawrence that he orders for him to be killed, and to loose the privilege of being a friar. I think he moves away out of guilt for what he is done.



In the end the feud between the Montagues and Capulets is resolved, but at the price of their children.  Was it really worth it?


Vocabulary:
apprehend - arrest; to take into custody
canopy - covering; protection
contempt scorn; disdain
disperse - scatter; distribute

inexorable - unmovable; relentless

interred - buried; shut in
penury - poverty; destitution
remnants - remains; leftovers
righteous - virtuous; moral