Mr Capulet Responsible For The Deaths Of Romeo And Juliet

In the story of Romeo and Juliet, there are multiple mixed-feeling about who potentially is responsible for the deaths of the star-crossed lovers. This story’s plot line gives the reader many different messages about why Romeo and Juliet decided to take their own lives, and in the end it all comes down to their belief in being in true love. The romance-filled tale tends to leave people thinking, “how could this have happened? They’re only teenagers who just met, got married, then killed themselves for each other; What’s the purpose?”, when the real question that should be asked is, not just how it was possible, but who was responsible for putting the pressure onto the two young adults’ lives with their relationship? The top four characters

that should be considered suspects, based on many quotes from the adventurous story, include Juliet’s parents, Mercurtio, and The Friar.
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and Mrs. Capulet have a huge involvement in why the lives of Juliet and Romeo crumbled to pieces. Lady Capulet, for example, in Act 3, Scene 5, screamed “...but she will none, she gives you (Capulet) thanks. I would the fool were married to her grave!” at Juliet, practically shaming her well being and sentencing her to death. Both her mother and father in this scene threw many abusive insults at Juliet, and in effect after words they lost their ere to the throne. In this same scene, Capulet walks in and spots Juliet crying because she doesn’t want to marry Paris, and he states abruptly “Hang thee, young baggage! Disobedient wretch! I tell thee what; get thee church o’ Thursday, or never after look me in the face. Speak not, reply not, do not answer me.” He’s stating in this final note to Juliet that if she doesn’t marry Paris, he will no longer consider her his daughter, and she’ll be executed the day of the wedding. Both of the parents after this fight with their daughter, stormed out of the room and slammed the door, where Juliet was left in a blanket of shame and hate from her own family, bringing on many hurtful, depressed feelings about what to do, what’s going to be best for Romeo, how she can stay with Romeo, and if not, what she was going to do about it. Had Capulet and Lady Capulet not said the of the terrible things that brought down the miserable, suicidal thoughts onto their daughter, Juliet might have found a better way to avoid marrying Paris and she

wouldn’t have thought of an absurd idea to fake her death, in hopes of escaping Verona to go live with Romeo, and in the end making matters worse.
Another individual who cause lots of pain for both the Montagues and the Capulets was Mercurtio, Romeo’s best friend.

In Act 3, Romeo and Tybalt were supposed to have a duel to the death, but Romeo attempted to be the bigger person by shaking hands and making amends with Tybalt; this then resulted in a dispute between Mercurtio and Tybalt because Tybalt still wanted to fight, but Romeo refused. Mercurio then stepped in between their bickering and inserted himself in the middle to fight for Romeo instead. The duel began between the two rivals, swords clashing and swinging, until Tybalt slashed a wound into Mercurio’s shoulder, sentencing him to death. In Act 3, scene 1, Mercurtio belched as Romeo made his way to help him, “A plague o’ both your houses! They have made worms’ meat of me” and after a few moments, again he whelped “A plague on both your houses! I am sped.” The reason why Mercurtio should be considered an influence on Romeo and Juliet’s death is because he’s basically making a curse onto both the Capulets and the Montagues, along with all of their descendants; it was believed at the time if you were on your deathbed or in the midst of dying, and you set a curse onto someone, it’ll hold true until followed through. Later in the story, the reason why the letter from the Friar could not make it to Romeo in time, before he heard about Juliet’s “death”, was because there was supposably “a plague” in Verona and the people of Mantua restricted the people outside to come

in, even with urgent messages. If Mercurio had not sentenced a plague onto Romeo and Juliet’s houses, there may not have been any miscommunication and they both would’ve been able to run away together.
The last individual who is most responsible for the death of the star-crossed lovers is the Friar himself. Originally, the Friar had good intentions for the youngsters, but didn’t look far enough ahead into what the consequences could be. “...but come, young waver, along with me. In one respect I’ll thy assistant be, for this alliance may so happy prove, to turn your household’s honor to pure love”, states the Friar to Romeo, as for he had come to him for help in marriage, in Act 2, Scene 3. What the Friar is stating is him having the mentality that, if he helps Romeo and Juliet get married, the two family’s disputes will mellow out and there will no longer be conflict between the Montagues and the Capulets. Later in the tale, in Act 4 scene 1, as Juliet goes to the Friar as a last resort before suicide, he declares “Hold, daughter, I do spy a kind of hope, which craves as desperate an execution as that is desperate which we would prevent” where he decides to lend her the potion which makes her appear as if she were dead, which leads to Romeo finding out without any backstory, and to both of their deaths entirely. In the very last act and scene of the story, where the Capulets and Montagues gathered around their dead children’s bodies, along with Paris’, he admits himself he is responsible; “I married them, but Tybalt’s death forced Romeo to flee. Them, desperate, she (Juliet) came to me and bade me to save her from enforced marriage to the county Paris, or she would kill herself. So I gave her a drug which wrought on her the form of death. I wrote to Romeo and told him all, Alas, that letter went astray by fate, and here you see the dire result.”

In conclusion, the tale of Romeo and Juliet included many different unsuspected events that slowly forced them to their death, many of which were caused by four individuals, including Juliet’s parents, Mercurtio, and the Friar. The star-crossed lovers did not go into the trouble with an open mind, but cowardly, and with lust, and in a way, they sentenced themselves to the fate that they had lying ahead of them. Although, it was not entirely their fault, for without the pressure from Mr. and Mrs. Capulet, Mercurtio, and the Friar, this story may not have ended as brutally, and the lovers would have had a chance to a real, full, and long-lived life.