Shared Blame: Dissecting the Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet

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Are you at fault with everything that goes wrong in your life? Conflicts in life include many other people, it wouldn’t be a problem if it was just you that was affected. No one person is to blame about the tragedy of Romeo and Juliet, the main people that contributed are Romeo, Juliet, Friar Laurence, and Nurse.
No one person is to blame for the tragedy of Romeo and Juliet but Romeo was a major person that contributed to his death. To begin with Romeo states, ”Shall bitterly begin his fearful date, With this night's revels and expire the term, Of a despised life closed in my breast, By some vile forfeit of untimely death”(Act 1 Scene 4). Romeo says this while he is on his way to the Capulet’s party. He knows that he will find something that night that will lead to his death. Benvolio also tells romeo, “Romeo, away, be gone!, The citizens are up, and Tybalt slain, Stand not amazed: the prince will doom thee death, If thou art taken: hence, be gone, away!”(Act 3 Scene 1). When Romeo kills Tybalt he should’ve have thought through …show more content…

Friar Laurence states, “For this alliance may so happy prove, To turn your households' rancour to pure love”(Act 2 Scene 3). Friar Lawrence married Romeo and Juliet out of love, but he didn’t think first about the consequences of the marriage. When people are in love they can be blind to what their love can do, and in this case their love blinded Friar into marrying them. Friar also said, “Hold; get you gone, be strong and prosperous, In this resolve: I'll send a friar with speed, To Mantua, with my letters to thy lord”(Act 4 Scene 4). If the letter with the plan written on it had made it to Mantua then Romeo would have not gone to see Juliet and wouldn’t think she dead. If he didn’t think she was dead then he wouldn’t have killed himself. This entire play revolves around miscommunication, all they had to do was tell someone who wasn’t caught up in the

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