The answer to your question can be found in the Prologue.
"Chor. 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-cross'd lovers take their life;
Whose misadventure piteous overthrows
Do with their death bury their parents' strife.
The fearful passage of their death-mark'd love,
And the continuance of their parents' rage,
Which, but their children's end, nought could
remove,
Is now the two hours' traffick of our stage;
The which if you with patient ears attend,
What here shall miss, our toil shall strive to
mend."
The Prologue tells us that Romeo and Juliet will fall in love and then die. Their destiny is fated, or dictated by the long standing feud between their two households. Technically, the feud is responsible for the structure that results in their deaths, but their individual actions also contribute to their deaths.
But consider, if the feud, which I believe is the main factor, did not exist, then Romeo and Juliet would not have had to hide their love or their marriage.
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