...Romeo and Juliet, one of Shakespeare’s most notable works in history, depicts an infamous love story that ended in tragedy - specifically, with both of them committing suicide. When their bodies were discovered, several questions arose. Who was to blame for this tragedy? Or, was there really anyone to blame? The Prince, appalled by what had happened, had this to say: “Some shall be pardoned, and some punished” (Romeo and Juliet. 5.3.322). Although it is not directly said who he is referring to, the events throughout the play paint a clear picture of whom he holds accountable and why. This includes the Capulet’s and Montague’s endless feud, the Friar’s plan, and his own hesitation to act. Although there are several people that were responsible for the deaths of Romeo and Juliet, two that stand out were the Capulets and the Montagues -notably, their hatred towards one another. Their feud, one that lasted throughout...
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...Romeo and Juliet Essay Emily Ma In the wake of a tragedy, people place blame on others from their perspectives. Blame can be placed onto whoever is responsible for the disaster in a situation. In Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare, Friar Laurence is to blame for the deaths of Romeo and Juliet. By making many poor decisions, he ends the lives of two young lovers who believed that their love was stronger than anything else on earth. Friar Laurence’s dedication to his job and optimism for love lead him to make premature, negligent decisions about Romeo and Juliet’s relationship while disregarding the consequences of the family feud. Priest’s aren’t allowed to have love so when Friar Laurence sees Romeo and Juliet’s passion for each other, he puts his hopes about love into their relationship and ignores the inevitable repercussions. Friar Laurence has just married Romeo and Juliet in secret and says, “So smile the heavens upon this holy act/ That after-hours with sorrow chide us not” (II, vi, 1-2) when he has gotten a feeling that this marriage is doomed and something...
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...Blame is the assigning of responsibility to another for a wrongdoing. People often blame people to keep their appearance, in others’ eyes, positive. In the play “Romeo and Juliet”, impulsiveness in their relationship and pressure from Juliet’s parents resulted in Romeo and Juliet’s deaths. Romeo and Juliet’s impulsion throughout their brief relationship is a big factor in the couple’s downfall. Because they had only known each other for a couple days and decided to get married, they took on a responsibility they were not prepared for. Upon meeting each other at the Capulet's’ party, Romeo and Juliet had decided that they were in love. During their encounter on Juliet's balcony, several hours after the party, they decided that they wanted...
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...of somebody you love. In Shakespeare's “Romeo and Juliet”, the two lovers ended their own lives because they refused to live forever without one another. However, Prince Escalus wants to know who the real cause of their death was. While both Friar Lawrence and Capulet are somewhat responsible, the Capulet-Montegue feud deserves the most blame. Friar Lawrence devised a desperate plan to get Romeo and Juliet back together, but it fails horribly. Romeo never gets the letter and is informed by Balthasar that Juliet is dead. He kills himself soon before Friar Lawrence Arrives, Juliet waking up soon after and stabbing herself with a dagger. Juliet proves to the Friar that she loves Romeo so...
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...Although many characters in William Shakespeare’s play, Romeo and Juliet, shared the blame of the newlywed's death, Friar Lawrence was ultimately at fault due to his countless naive and rash attempts at holding their doomed marriage together. The Friar had been the one to marry Romeo and Juliet in secret, provide Juliet with the sleeping elixir, and lastly, in act of cowardice, had left Juliet to her own self imposed death when guards could be heard on their way to the Capulet’s tomb. To start, the Friar had been the one to unwisely marry the couple in secret. Although offering little hesitance at young Romeo’s proposition, Lawrence had quickly agreed, thinking that the marriage between the two feuding houses would somehow force them into setting their differences aside for the sake of the young couple. What Friar Lawrence hadn’t realized was that in order to see this happen, the marriage would have had been made public, otherwise the two families would have no idea that their long held grudges would need to have been let go. As consequence to these actions, Tybalt had slain Mercutio, which in turn led to Romeo being responsible for the revengeful...
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...always a result of many other factors. In the brutal tragedy, ‘Romeo and Juliet’ by William Shakespeare tells a story of two star-crossed lovers living in the quaint city of Verona, Italy. Their families, the Montagues, and the Capulets have been at each other's throats for generations, but when the two adolescents meet at a masquerade it’s love, at first sight, a series of unfortunate events take place leading to the demise of the young couple, however, along the way they are aided by the nurse and the priest who play major roles in the play. Although the families feuding was a major factor in Romeo and Juliet's deaths, it was also caused by; rushed planning and rash decisions. The Capulets and Montagues have equal blame in the deaths of Romeo and Juliet between a spiteful arranged marriage and starting fights amongst each other the young pair of lovers were being set up for catastrophe....
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...We all know the story of Romeo and Juliet. They both love each other and die for each other. What if all this could have been prevented? There are a lot of characters who are at fault for Romeo and Juliet death. Maybe their parents should have ended the feud, or maybe Romeo and Juliet shouldn't have gotten that dramatic. However there is one character that sticks out the most. Tybalt is the most to blame because he acted irrationally. Tybalt had a grudge on the Montague’s which explains why he was always angry at Romeo. When Romeo went to the Capulets party, Tybalt was angry that Romeo showed up. Capulet told Tybalt that Romeo was not a foe. Tybalt said “Uncle, this is a Montague, our foe. A villain that is hither come in spite to scorn at our solemnity this night.” ( I, v, 67-70) This shows that even though Tybalt knew that Romeo was no harm, he was still stubborn enough to believe that he was. Tybalt was trying g to make trouble even though there was no trouble. Tybalt should have just stayed calm and listen to Capulet because then he would realize that he was starting something....
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...Romeo and Juliet In the play, Romeo and Juliet written by William Shakespeare, two star-crossed lovers take their lives. In the city of Verona, two prideful families break into mutiny. Romeo and Juliet meet through many chances which helps their forbidden love to bloom which sadly end in dead. Fate is to blame for the deaths of Romeo and Juliet because the Montagues and Capulets hate each other, and a plague strikes Verona when the Friar sends a letter to Romeo. Fate is the cause of these star-crossed lover’s deaths, because the Montague and Capulet households despise each other. The prologue states, “From forth the fatal loins of these two foes/A pair of star-crossed lovers take their life” (Prologue. 5-6). If fate had not turned the Montagues and the Capulets into foes, then Romeo and Juliet’s love would have been allowed. By the fateful chance that the Montagues and Capulets are adversaries, Romeo and Juliet’s illicit love creates conflict for both houses, which ends up digging the young inamoratos graves.This is why fate is to blame for Romeo and Juliet’s death, but this is not the only reason to blame fate. Another reason why fate is to blame...
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...You are to blame. Often people look at other people to censure when something goes wrong. Most times it is the person blaming someone else that has done the wrong. But in this case the victims are no longer able to point fingers. William Shakespeare brought the world the story of The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet. Romeo and Juliet is a very dreamy story at first until one thing goes wrong and then everyone starts dying. Romeo and Juliet are the lovers that end up committing suicide for each other. Mercutio is the best friend that sets off the story by dying first. Tybalt is the main reason why Mercutio dies and the Friar Lawrence brought Romeo and Juliet together in hope it would end the feud between the families. The Capulets and the Montagues...
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...If I had to pick someone to blame for the deaths of Romeo and Juliet it would be Romeo. Romeo should shoulder the burden of most of the blame because he is the character that makes things happen within the story; like when he disregarded the friar’s warnings about marring Juliet too quickly, or when he let Mercutio die then killed Tybalt, or many other things but I will focus on what I believe shows why he is the main person to blame. Romeo’s terrible judgement and listening skills can be seen throughout the story; but the biggest example of this has to be when Romeo goes to tell the friar about wanting to be wedded to Juliet and he warns Romeo about the marriage (2.3.65-70); Romeo even though hearing these words married Juliet anyway which...
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...Romeo and Juliet: Are the Parents to Blame? In every tragedy, it is a common goal to find out who or what is to blame for causing the event. This allows us as humans to punish the culprit or declare the event and accident. In the case of Romeo and Juliet, it is no different. There is a part of every reader who wants to know what happened to drive the star-crossed lovers to their death. Was it their parents or was it the naive teenagers? It was both. Both sides of the tragedy lacked communication with each other, seeing others points of view, and not putting in the effort to listen to each other. Throughout most of the drama, readers are exposed to the two opposing sides of a rooted family feud. The Capulets and Montagues want absolutely no relations between one another at all. This feeling of isolation from one another is...
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...When a disaster brings death, is there always someone at fault? There are times when the disaster was pure misfortune. However, there are also times when the disaster was brought by a single person. Romeo and Juliet, a famous play by the just as famous William Shakespeare, hosts a plethora of deaths, and there is only one person to blame. The one who brought so much death and destruction was someone who brought the play into existence in the first place; that person is none other than Romeo himself for going to the fateful party and bringing Juliet’s, and many others’, demises. To begin with, Romeo was the person who brought himself, and his companions, to the party, in which he met Juliet. Romeo was never invited to the party; Romeo lied to a servingman who could not read and said that he was on the guest list. As a result, the servingman told him that his “master is the great rich Capulet, and if [Romeo] be not of the house of Montagues, [he] pray come and crush a cup of wine” (1.2.85-88). Not only was Romeo not invited: he, and his family, was despised by the hosts of the party. At the party, Romeo met Juliet and fell in love, despite knowing that “[his] life is [his] foe’s debt” (1.5.132). The two families hated each other,...
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...Maybe they wouldn’t have died if he had been there in time. (back ground info)Friar Laurence is the character most to blame for the tragic events in Romeo and Juliet because he gave Juliet a sleeping potion making everyone believe she was dead, he did not see through that Romeo got the message that Juliet was alive, and he did not get to the grave quick enough to resolve the situation. Friar Laurence is the most to blame for the events that occur in Romeo and Juliet because he gave Juliet the sleeping potion causing everyone to think she was dead. “Take thou this vial... drink thou off... shall appear like death” (Shakespeare 4.1 96-106) “She's dead, deceased; she's dead” (Shakespeare 4.5 25). The quote from Friar Laurence is when he instructed Juliet to drink the contents of the vial so she would appear dead. The quote from the nurse shows that everyone believed she...
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...The one to blame for death These tragic flaws have tragic ends. Some tall tales have a fault in the beginning and a tragic ending. In this tragedy, two families Capulet and Montague are in a long-standing feud that seems to last a lifetime. During this fued, one Capulet and one Montague fall in love. Because of their love, they commit suicide which ends their families feud. During the play, two love one another so much, enough to kill them. Even though some characters are to blame for their unfortunate suicide. In the play Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare, the character to blame for the star-crossed lovers death is Friar Lawrence because he knew Romeo and Juliet’s marriage was not a good idea, he was not honest, and because he never helped Romeo and Juliet with anything. The first reason Friar Lawrence is responsible for Romeo and Juliet’s suicide is because he knew that he should not have married...
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...Friar Laurence is to Blame Throughout the story, Friar Laurence plays a dominate role in the eventual death of Romeo and Juliet. Even though Romeo and Juliet’s families are at war.There are three major parts to the tragedy: the marriage ,the plan, and the deaths which Friar Laurence plays a vital role in. Friar Laurence is to blame because he is the one who is married Romeo and Juliet. Also he is to blame because his plan didn’t go as planned. Romeo and Juliet fall in love as soon as they meet. They decide to marry and keep it a secret from their families. There were only two people that would help and know of their marriage. They were the Nurse and Friar Laurence. Friar Laurence agrees to marry Romeo and juliet even though he he thinks...
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