Title: What is the major conflict in Romeo and Juliet?  Possible answers are:  Juliet's parents are forcing her to marry Paris.  The families of Romeo and... - eNotes.com
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What is the major conflict in Romeo and Juliet ?  Possible answers are:  Juliet's parents are forcing her to marry Paris.  The families of Romeo and Juliet have been feuding for years.  Romeo loves Rosaline who loves Paris who loves Juliet.
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Content: that between the Montagues and the Capulets. This highlights the extent to which the feud contaminates all aspects of life in Verona. It also shows us the ultimate impossibility of Romeo and Juliet's passionate relationship becoming accepted in society, despite the extraordinary power of their love. They are both doomed to suffer a tragic death because their families detest each other. Further Reading
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In my opinion, the major conflict in Romeo and Juliet is the feud between the Montagues and the Capulets. Evidence for this theory is given in the prologue to the play. "Two households, both alike in dignity
(In fair Verona, where we lay our scene),
From ancient grudge break to new mutiny,
Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean. 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. The fearful passage of their death-marked love
And the continuance of their parents' rage,
Which, but their children’s end, naught could remove." The conflict is described as ancient, and the play opens with a new mutiny born of this ancient grudge.