CAPULET AND MONTAGUE FAMILIES

two feuding Veronese families in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. Their blood feud brings about the deaths of the title characters when Juliet (the daughter of Capulet) and Romeo (the son of Montague) fall in love. Capulet is portrayed as the more tyrannical of the two menhe is mean to his wife, whom he does not love, and strict with his teenage daughterbut both men bear equal responsibility for the personal tragedy brought upon their houses by their bitter enmity.