Capulet Is To Blame In Shakespeare's Romeo And Juliet

Love is an essence of life that almost every human being desires. Sadly, with love comes heartbreak, be in by an ended relationship or by something darker. Romeo and Juliet, a play by the late poet William Shakespeare, follows the love and loss of two doomed, or star-crossed, lovers named Romeo and Juliet. They are from two different feuding families, and thus, this love is forbidden, leading them down a path of death and despair. This path, though, can be linked to three different individuals. Capulet, Juliet’s Nurse, and Friar Laurence are the individuals responsible for the deaths of these youth. Capulet, Juliet’s father, is one of the many to be held for blame. For example, without even asking for Juliet her opinion, he promised to Paris that she would marry him. This statement is

Juliet’s Nurse, who has raised her for her whole life, is also part of the guilty party. This guilt can be placed on the fact that she contradicts her own motives. At first, the Nurse approves of the marriage, even asking if she had permission to go to the church, then telling her, “... hence to Friar Laurence’s cell;/There stays a husband to make you a wife” (2.6.67-8). Her approval of him was so high that she told Juliet the truth, that Romeo is waiting to be married to her. This leads to Juliet going to the church, being married, and setting the trainwreck of a relationship rolling. Now, this action alone does not place blame on her. What places the blame is what she says after Capulet leaves. She tells Juliet her opinion, saying that, “Then, since the case so stands as now it doth,/I think it best you married with the County” (3.5.216-7). This phrase absolutely destroys Juliet, as she thought that her Nurse was on her side, but then discovers that the Nurse goes against her, agreeing with her parents. The Nurse, though well intentioned, does not understand or acknowledge the damage that she helped set in