Responsible For The Deaths Of Romeo And Juliet Essay

The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet is a romantic tragedy with hints of comedy and violence. The two fell to their deaths (suicidaly) as their family’s enmity swallowed all of Fair Verona into a bloody feud. However, the result of their deaths peace was brought back to Verona and their families made peace with each other. Despite this, at the end of the 5 day play we have 6 characters killed. Mercutio, Tybalt, Paris, Lady Montague, and of course Romeo and Juliet. But in the end you wonder, who is the one responsible for the two lover’s deaths? Was it their star crossed fate and destiny? Or was it simply their parent’s enmity towards each other? Or maybe it wasn’t anyone’s fault but rather their own?

In reality, there is no particular thing or person or being that we can claim responsible and caused their fall. In fact, all of the characters in the play triggered their deaths using different ways and methods. Such as by personality,

Although they both have amazing kids (Romeo / Juliet) and have same high rank, they just hate each other out of jealousy of them which is pretty shallow of them. Even people of lower rank don’t struggle with that problem at all. To make matters worse, they can’t even handle their kids properly and barely raised them at all. For the Capulet’s, the mother does not love her daughter Juliet at all while the father loves her so much ironically. Despite that, they often push her to decisions she can have little say to and keep her locked up at home all the time even keep an eye on her suspiciously. For the Montague’s, they can’t be parents at all. They don’t even know what and where he is thus how is he doing. The situation is so bad they need to ask Romeo’s cousin Benvolio to report everything to them. Another factor that has a lot of blame is their fate and destiny. It made their death inevitable and it’s something you have literally no control of