Romeo is to blame for his and Juliet’s deaths because he is very fast to love. In Lois Kerschen’s critical essay about who is to blame she states, “Perhaps the problem is not with the intensity of the emotion, but the inability to control and direct that emotion in a positive way.” This confirms that Romeo does not know how to handle what his feeling in a way that would benefit everybody. This establishes that Romeo’s character flaw is the main reason for his and Juliet’s death. Another example that supports Kerschen’s assertion is when Romeo decides to marry Juliet so suddenly. At the beginning of the play while talking to Benvolio, Romeo is depressed because his love with Rosaline fails. Then, he meets Juliet and is overpowered by his emotions. …show more content…
All of a sudden he feels better, and is ready to marry Juliet! This proves that Romeo in fact did not know how to control his emotions. Their marriage after one day led to their deaths because they were both so infatuated with each other that they would do anything for each other, even die. If they were not as obsessed with each other, then they still could have been alive. Immediately, when Romeo first sees Juliet at the party, he says, “ The measure done, I’ll watch her place of stand/ And touching hers, male blessed my rude hand./ Did my heart love till now? Forswear it, sight!/ For I ne’er saw true beauty till this night” (1.5.49-52). This indicates that Romeo makes very hasty, impulsive decisions with love, which can suggest that his decision to marry Juliet was impulsive. When Romeo goes to the Friar to ask if he can marry them, the Friar says, “ Holy Saint Francis, what a change is here!/ Is Rosaline, that thou didst love so dear,/ So soon forsaken? Young men’s love then lies/ Not truly in their hearts but in their eyes” (2.3.65-68). This establishes that Friar also thinks that he does not know how to control his emotions. The Friar is suggesting that Romeo was just in love with Rosaline, but is now ready to marry Juliet. This shows how Romeo is impulsive when it comes to love. His impulsivity with love led to their deaths because if they were not married, then Juliet would not have had to find a way out of marrying Paris. If they were not married so fast, then Juliet would not have had to participate in the potion plan, that fails. Romeo is very impulsive with love, and also very impulsive when it comes to making extreme decisions, that kill other people. Romeo is to blame for the death of himself and Juliet because of his decision to kill Tybalt which led to many other factors of their deaths.
Romeo knew that Tybalt was Juliet’s cousins, and did not think about the consequences that were to come after his murderous act. Lois Kerschen in her critical essay about who is to blame, states, “Violence runs throughout the story, linking each event.” This suggests that Romeo’s violent act of murder, leads to one thing, which leads to another, which leads to Juliet’s death. Immediately after Romeo kills Tybalt, the prince appears and says, “And for that offence/ Immediately we do exile him hence.” (3.1.177-178). So, because of Romeo’s choice to kill Tybalt, he gets banished from Verona, and sent to Mantua. Since he is no longer in Verona, he is not allowed to see Juliet. If Romeo did not kill him, he would have been able to stay in Verona with Juliet. When the nurse goes into Juliet’s room to deliver the news that Romeo has killed her cousin, the nurse says about Romeo, “There is no trust, no faith, no honesty in men” (3.2.86-87) The nurse is right. How could Juliet trust Romeo anymore, because he was not respectful to her? He was being selfish when he kills Tybalt. He killed Tybalt out of pure anger from Mercutio’s death. When Juliet finds out what happened, she cries for Romeo, because she will not be able to see him again. Her tears of sadness for Romeo, get mistaken of tears for Tybalt, by the Capulets. The Capulets just want to make her happy, so they decide to have the marriage to Paris sooner. Juliet wants to do anything to get out of marrying Paris, so she decided to see the Friar, who came up with the potion plan. The plan did not work because of Romeo’s hastiness to kill himself so soon. That demonstrates how Kerschen’s idea can be used to blame Romeo. Romeo is mostly to blame because of his hasty decisions with love and illegal actions, but some may believe that others are most to
blame. Other readers may think that he Capulets or the Friar is to blame. The Capulet parents are not to blame for their deaths, because forcing Juliet to marry Paris was a normal thing in the 1500’s. Arranged marriages were very popular back then, and girls had little to no say on who they were going to marry. Yes, the Capulet parents were not sympathetic to Juliet, but, if Juliet obeyed her parents and social customs, then she would still be alive. The Friar is not to blame for their deaths because the reason Romeo never got the letter, is a credible reason. Friar Lawrence thought the plan was going well, and that were no complications with Romeo receiving the letter. It was not until after Romeo and Juliet die, that he found out Romeo never receives the letter. Therefore, the Capulets and the Friars are not to blame for the deaths of the lovers, Romeo is to blame.
Tybalt caused this death by getting mad and taking revenge on Romeo. When he took revenge on Romeo, it meant he also, displayed immaturity to his faithful cousin, Juliet. Tybalt and Juliet grew up together. They had a close relationship. Tybalt took that away from them. The fact of the matter is, you shouldn’t be messing with love and happiness. Both Romeo and Juliet had that, and it was not to be punctured. Tybalt punctured
Who is Most Responsible for the Deaths of Romeo and Juliet? Romantic love stories often end with a tragedy, because of the loss of passion or a loved one. These tragedies are often the result of one person’s actions that ended someone’s life or love. In the Romeo and Juliet play written by William Shakespeare, two citizens of Verona come together and fall deeply in love.
The Death of Romeo and Juliet and Who is to Blame Romeo and Juliet is a tragedy by William Shakespeare, in which a young boy and girl fall in love and commit suicide. They come from 2 different families which have a deadly feud against one another. Romeo goes to a masked ball at the Capulet's household where he falls in love with Juliet. He then proposes to her after the party in secret at Juliet's balcony. Romeo then arranges a secret weeding with Friar Lawrence and Juliet tells the Nurse.
1First, Capulet should be blamed the most for Romeo and Juliet’s death. 2 His first fault was to bear Romeo in his party. 3When Capulet was informed by Tybalt about the presence of Romeo (Montague) Capulet said, “A bears him like a portly gentlemen”. His ignorance towards Romeo’s presence cause the two youngster to fall in love which led to series of problems. His another mistake was to arrange Juliet’s marriage with Paris without her consent. When Paris came to ask to make Juliet his bride Capulet changed his opinion when he first asked and said, “I think she’ll be ruled-In all respect by me. Nay, more, I doubt it not”. Then he said to his wife that, “O’ Thursday, tell her, she shall be married to this noble earl.” This led to Juliet drinking the potion to pretend dead on the day of her marriage and Romeo’s servant Balthasar got the message of Juliet’s death before he got a letter from Friar Lawrence about her pretend death. This led to Juliet’s real death followed by Romeo’s death. Therefore, Capulet’s big heartedness and small heartedness caused the death of Romeo ...
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Who is the most to blame for the deaths of Romeo and Juliet? There are many opinions on who is to blame for the deaths of these "star crossed lovers." One of these opinions is that both Romeo and Juliet are equally to blame for their own deaths. Romeo nor Juliet knew how to resolve their own problems and went directly to Friar Lawrence. Whenever Romeo and Juliet failed to resolve their problem, their resolution was suicide. Romeo and Juliet also withheld the love affair between them, from their families.
Do you believe in love at first sight? Many tragedies and dramatic events happen throughout this play. In, ‘Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet’ by William Shakespeare, a family feud between the Montague and the Capulets, has been going on for ages; however, two teenagers, Romeo Montague and Juliet Capulet, fall in love and get married. This causes many fights and people dying, including themselves. There are many characters to blame for all of these deaths. Benvolio is the cause of all these deaths because he convinced Romeo on going to the Capulet party, Benvolio gave up on finding Romeo when he disappeared after the Capulet party, and Benvolio didn’t defend Mercutio when he fought with Tybalt.
Responsibility for Romeo and Juliet's Deaths There is much controversy to who is to blame for the deaths of Romeo and Juliet, a number of things and people could be held responsible for the deaths of Romeo and Juliet. But who is responsible for their deaths? Even before the play begins the grudge between the Capulet and Montague families has begun. Because of this, it becomes imminent that one thing or event will start off a sequence of incidents that will end in tragedy. The on-going feud between the Montague and Capulet families could be held responsible for the deaths of Romeo and Juliet, because if their was no feud between these families then Romeo and Juliet would have been able to have a safe normal relationship in which their family would have agreed to.
To bring out that Romeo is to blame I would make him deliver his lines
Juliet is one of the main people to blame for her and Romeo’s death. In Act 5, Scene 3, Romeo states, “Thy drugs are quick. This with a kiss I die.” This reveals that he killed himself to be with her, not knowing that she was faking her death to avoid marrying Paris. Another reason Juliet is to blame for their death is shown when she says “O, think’st thou we shall ever meet again?”, after Romeo’s banishment showing that she just let him go
Tybalt did not take a direct role in Juliet’s ‘death’, but he set the course for incidents that lead to it. As a Capulet, he had long participated in the feud between his family and the Montagues. The day after he spotted Romeo at a party hosted by his family, he went out looking for him – and a fight. He accidentally murdered Mercutio, Romeo later killed him in revenge. Juliet, rather than being upset by Tybalt’s death, sobbed for Romeo, who was banished for the murder. The misunderstandings regarding Juliet’s grief led to a marriage she felt she could only escape by faking her own death. While Tybalt was not immediately involved in Juliet’s ‘death’, he played such a major role in starting the events that would ultimately lead to it that he must be deemed partly responsible.
In Shakespeare’s Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet, the lovers meet their doom, by scene iii of Act V. With their fatal flaw of impulsivity, Romeo and Juliet are ultimately to blame for their death. Contrarily, if it was not for the unintentional influence of the pugnacious Tybalt, the star-crossed lovers may have remained together, perpetually. To the audience, the deaths of Romeo and Juliet are already understood, for it is a Shakespearean tragedy. However, the causes, predominantly Romeo’s and Juliet’s fatal flaw of impulsivity and rashness, are as simple as Shakespearean writing. Though Romeo and Juliet are wholly to blame for their tragic suicides, in Act V scene iii, Tybalt is, in turn, responsible, as his combative spirit forced Romeo to murder him and Juliet to marry Paris.
Romeo and Juliet are to blame for their deaths because suicide is never the option, they were too young to be married, and they weren’t being that smart when they made that decision. It’s Romeo and Juliet’s fault that they died because suicide is never the option. In the real world that we live in today, suicide is something that is morally
This rash decision also caused Juliet and Romeo pain and disappointment. “When something bad happens to one you love, something bad also happens to you. If a loved one is hurt or disgraced, you are hurt; if something wonderful happens to her, you feel better off. ”(“Love’s Bond”, Robert Nozick) If that is true when loving someone, Romeo evidently made the wrong decision to kill Tybalt.
After the wedding, Romeo runs into Juliet’s cousin Tybalt, who hates him. They engage in a duel, and Romeo kills Tybalt. He fled the scene of the crime. Later, he discovers from Friar Lawrence that rather than executing him for murder, the Prince of Verona has declared that he be banished forever. Instead of being relieved and grateful, Romeo laments his fate and claims that he would rather be dead than be separated from his dear Juliet.