Deciding Who Is To Blame In Shakespeare's Romeo And Juliet

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Romeo and Juliet, by William Shakespeare, is a classic story about love, one of the most confusing yet cherished feelings people have. As Romeo says in Act I, scene 1, “Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs; being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers’ eyes.” Why we have these feelings, we don’t know. Some say love is not even real. Some say the feeling we call romantic love is just our instinct to mate. Whatever the case, it will never be an easy topic. Deciding who is most to blame for Romeo and Juliet’s death is also not an easy topic. There are many different opinions about who was most responsible. To start off my reasoning on whose fault it was that Romeo and Juliet’s lives were tragically cut short: I simply say everyone