The fight between the Montagues and the Capulets plays a big role in the story of the tragedy. First of all, they would not have to do all that scheming to marry if their families did not hate each other so much. Romeo could just have asked Capulet for Juliet's hand in marriage. It could have been easy, but the families hated each other. They hated each other so much, that they would always attempt to fight and kill each other. A servant from the house of the Capulets said, "[even] A dog from the house of the Montagues moves me [provokes me]" (Romeo and Juliet, I.I. 8). Romeo is at the Capulet's party in act I, when Tybalt sees him and wants to kill him, he says to Capulet:

"Uncle, this is a Montague, our foe,

A villain that is hither come in spite

"Ancient damnation, O most wicked fiend!

If all else fail, myself have power to die"(Romeo and Juliet, III.V.248-250, 254-255)

I'll to the Friar to know his remedy.

Or to dispraise my lord with that same tongue

Fate and human error, love and hate. That is a theory of the reason of their tragedy. What happened is not clear. It never will be. That's one of the fascinating things about this play, and one of the reasons we can still read it and see it today, and feel pity and fear. Love is never simple, and never will be. Neither is hate. That is what makes love and hate so interesting, so different, and yet, so similar. And that is what makes this play so interesting and mysterious, and in its mysterious ways, it has been discussed for about 400 years. There is no way to deny, "For never was a story of more woe/Than this of Juliet and her Romeo." (Romeo and Juliet, V.III.330-321)

In this quote, Juliet is completely desperate, ready to listen to any idea or kill herself. If she was not that desperate, she could have thought with Friar Lawrence and figured a better plan, like going with Friar John to where Romeo is and, when she is already with him, fake her death in Verona. Also, when Romeo opens the Capulet's grave and finds Juliet apparently dead, he says how his life is miserable and how he is unlucky and kills himself. Romeo, seconds before committing suicide, addresses himself as, "Thou desperate pilot, now at once run on/The

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