Who Is To Blame For Romeo And Juliet's Death

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You’re only young once, at least that's what everybody says. When you are young, you are supposed to live it up, take a chance, and have fun doing it. In the play Romeo and Juliet, by William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet both were too young to be in love, and in the end, they both ended up dead for no good reason. The cause of Romeo and Juliet's deaths is their own fault because of many reasons. First, the day before, Romeo was just trying to get over another girl that he thought he was madly in love with, so when he meets Juliet it is essentially a rebound from his last relationship. Second, Juliet is young, rash, and doesn’t really know what love is yet. Finally, they were both so blinded by the thought of love that they couldn’t see that what they had wasn’t true, lasting love. Romeo and Juliet are responsible for their own deaths because, Romeo doesn’t love Juliet and it is just a rebound from Rosaline, who he …show more content…

It is just a fling with poor choices that eventually end to their imminent demise. The relationship that they thought they had was really a fling. Romeo just getting over someone else and Juliet, to young to understand what love is. As they are both getting married first Romeo says, “ If the measure of thy joy be heaped like mine,” (Shakespeare 2.6. 24-25). This is saying that he is so happy to be with Juliet, but he says this because its just his facade and he is just hiding, deep inside, that he is not truly in love with her. When they are exchanging their vows, Juliet says, “But my true love is grown to such excess I cannot sum up sum of half my wealth,” (Shakespeare 2.6. 33-34). She has poor judgment because of her age and because she doesn’t have much experience in the real world outside of Verona. She is saying that she loves Romeo to such excess that it is larger then her wealth, which is very large, because of her successful

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