The feud between the Montagues and Capulets drives the action of the play because they are the families of Romeo and Juliet. The two main characters that are in love with one and other but due to their family's feud they cannot be together. To this distress, Romeo and Juliet have to find a way to stay together again set their family's wishes, plus more drama with deaths of family members infuriating both family's.<span />
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Friar Lawrence wants to slow down the marriage preparations for Paris and Juiet because Juliet is already married to Romeo. Romeo and Juliet need time to figure out how and when they are going to explain their marriage to their parents.
Paris says that Lord Capulet wants his daughter wed quickly because it will hopefully ease her sadness. He thinks that by marrying Juliet and Paris she will be so happy that she will stop grieving. In actuality, her father's demand that she marries Paris makes her even more upset and inconsolable.
