Who Is To Blame For The Deaths Of Romeo And Juliet Essays

Who Is To Blame For The Deaths Of Romeo And Juliet? Romeo and Juliet is a tragedy about two star crossed lovers whose love cannot apart them from their two feuding families. In this essay I will state who or what are responsible for their deaths, the main theme of the story is hatred and fate. Firstly I must introduce the two families because their attitude of hatred is responsible for the deaths mainly because if they hadn't quarrelled then maybe Romeo and Juliet wouldn't have got married in secret. Resulting in the feud all the members perpetuated the feud this is illustrated by Tybalt from the Capulet family, Juliet's cousin, he started the fight that resulted in Romeo getting banished and he was always causing trouble. He more than any one else in the story kept hatred alive between the two families because of his violence. I also blame Lord and Lady Capulet, Juliet's parents because they should have paid more attention to Juliet's wishes when she refused to marry Paris. At first they threatened to throw her out onto the streets as in Act three Scene 5 Capulet says to Juliet "Thursday is near lay hand on heart and you be mine, Ill give you to my friend, and you to be not, hang, beg, starve, die in the streets." Lady Capulet also put her daughter in the care of the Nurse who raised Juliet as her surrogate daughter. The Nurse being a blabbermouth out spoken person was also responsible for the death of Juliet. She never acknowledged that maybe Juliet wasn't ready for this immense step in her life from an on looker guardian. In Act two-Scene four the Nurse warns Romeo to be true to Juliet and she explains there is another man after her Paris she compares the two. She says to Romeo that her Juliet is sweet "well sir my mistress is sweetest lady, lord o there is a noble man in town Paris." She encouraged Juliet in her romance with Romeo because the action of her being a blabber mouth is that she carried the messages of a secret meeting of where she knew that they where going to spend a night of passion together in Act three Scene two she says to Juliet "hie to your chamber Ill find Romeo to comfort you hark ye, your Romeo will be here all night" She advised Juliet to marry Paris, knowing she was already married to Romeo. I also blame Friar Lawrence who was the person that took these newly met lustful children into their marriage, since Romeo and Juliet where two children were married so soon and at a young age this made them unable to make they're own decisions. This statement can be proved about Romeo because when he was banished he bellowed like a baby the Nurse had to make young Romeo act like a man just to think of Juliet instead of himself. The main reason for Friar Lawrence's decision to marry the two is wrong is because he thought this might help to make the two families stop fighting in Act two Scenes six Friar Lawrence says, "till holy church incorporate two in one". In the end this was proven to be the motivation for the two children killing themselves he also gave Juliet the sleeping potion Act four Scene one "take this vial, being in bed and this distilled liquor drink thou off". Now I must introduce The Prince ruler of Verona where the story is set. The Prince had the power to act to stop the feud between the two families. It was unjustified of him to send Romeo away from Verona as a punishment for killing Tybalt when the fighting was Tybalt`s own fault for killing Mercutio in Act three Scene three he says "hence from Verona art thou banished: taking thy part, hath rushd aside the law and turn`d that black word into banishment". Mercutio had an influence on Romeo because of his friend ship, Mercutio`s attitude to the quarrels and fighting made the situation worse. He saw the feud as a game and that attitude led him to his death and Romeo's banishment. Even though I am blaming certain people for the tragic deaths of Romeo and Juliet I have to consider that Romeo and Juliet had an affect