FREE ESSAY ON ROMEO AND JULIET WHO IS TO BLAME FOR THE TRAGIC DEATHS.

ROMEO AND JULIET WHO IS TO BLAME FOR THE TRAGIC DEATHS.

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 on there own fates.
Firstly, I will blame Romeo because he acted too hastily throughout the story and he was
a romancer because the opening of the story he was in love with Rosoline then he fell for
Juliet.
He shouldn't have asked Juliet to marry him so suddenly, and he should have thought more
carefully before rushing back to Verona after hearing of Juliet's death.
He also acted violently and without thinking when he killed Tybalt in revenge and then
later the killing of Paris.
Now I will explain why I think Juliet was responsible for her own death Juliet of death
and Romeo's death to, I think she shouldn't have deceived and disobeyed her parents.
Like Romeo, she was too rash in rushing into marriage.
She knew she was already engaged to marry Paris at the time of the ball when she first
met Romeo and until then she was very happy with her parent's choice of Paris a wealthy
bachelor.
Before my conclusion can be stated I will have to introduce what I think are the main
reasons for the deaths, which is fate.
Fate seemed to control their lives and force them together, becoming the ultimate
controlling power in this play even if it is not recognised however in the prologue there
is a chosen identity of starts "a pair star-crossed lovers".
A large part of the beliefs for both Romeo and Juliet involved fate, they believed in the
stars and that their actions were not always there own, Romeo for example scene 1 act 4
says "some consequence yet hanging in the stars....by some vile forfeit of untimely
death. But hath the steerage over my course direct sail".
He is simply saying to his friends he had a dream, which lead him to believe that he will
die young because of something in the stars, something that will happen.
The only instance of fate managed to direct Romeo into its web like a spider.
There is another instance of strong fate where an illiterate servant of the Capulets was
sent to invite people to the ball; in Act one Scene two "I can never find what names I
must to be learned", Romeo saw this list with Rosalines name on it, which got Romeo and
his friends to the ball.
When he got to the ball Romeo was memorised by Juliet, and she was simply memorised by
him.
They later realise their identity, but they are in love and won't let their names get in
the way of their strong emotions.
If fate didn't put them together then what or who did?
What are the chances of all that happening a million to one so that's why I have come to
my conclusion that the main reason for what is to blame for the tragic deaths of Romeo
and Juliet is the fate.