Romeo And Juliet Blame

Contrary to the average reader’s beliefs, Romeo and Juliet are not the only characters in the play that can be blamed for the lover’s suicide. Throughout the course of the play, the two lovers meet at Juliet’s party, fall in love immediately, although they do not tell their families because they are enemies. Over the course of a few days, the couple gets married, and then end up killing themselves in order to be with their lover in heaven (Shakespeare, William). Based off actions and lines from the play, “Romeo and Juliet,” it can be hard to control life when other people do things to hinder it such as the actions of The Friar, Lord and Lady Capulet, and Romeo and Juliet themselves. Several other characters in the play can be blamed for

The first reason the Friar can be blamed for their deaths would be the Friar’s selfishness. He was selfish when he wanted to marry Romeo and Juliet, and in that, unite the Montagues and Capulets. This ultimately worked because in the end, both families loved each other, and even made statues of Romeo and Juliet (Shakespeare, William). Second, the Friar admitted that he was wrong. He said that he would admit to the blame because he realised what he did. He knew that the families would blame him for marrying the couple, so he just admitted to it (Halio, Jay L.). Third, Shakespeare himself would have been taking the blame himself too because many people believe the Friar is the spokesman for Shakespeare himself (Overview of Romeo and Juliet). This could also mean that Shakespeare could feel that the Friar should in fact take blame for his actions, or at least confess that what the Friar did was not right, and that he should have asked the families first, or let them know. Another thing that very easily could have contributed to the deaths of Romeo and Juliet is that the Friar told Romeo and Juliet to be slow and cautious about their marriage, but them, as well as the Friar himself, didn’t heed his advice. For example, the Friar was very fast in marrying the couple, although he told them to take their time and

First, as stated by Harold Goddard, “You can no longer ask such love to last than you can ask April to last.” This means that their love, in this expert’s opinion was never going to last as long as it did, and if these two lovers were to keep being in love, then it would be very different, because these two characters acted so quick to love one another. Then, according to Harold Goddard, Romeo wasn’t in the best state of mind when Tybalt died because he could not stand to see Juliet so broken up, but ultimately this brash decision making led to his and Juliet’s death. Although in the play, it does not seem like Romeo is too harsh on himself, he really is, and that is a major contributing factor to his death. Later, Juliet, after Tybalt dies, is thinking about death, just like Romeo. Both Romeo and Juliet were thinking about death, but Juliet in a calmer way. Tybalt had just died, so she was thinking about his death, and she was informed that she was to marry Paris, and had heard the Friar’s offer (Goddard, Harold). In other words, Juliet was thinking about Tybalt’s death, and not her own, although Romeo was thinking about his own. Romeo also gets his emotions played with a lot throughout the play. He tends to follow them first and not pay much attention to the logical side, ergo prompting his death, and his emotions had a large contributing factor to his hasty marriage to