Blame is a coping skill that places responsibility on someone or something for a wrong and makes yourself better by shifting the attention. There are two reasons for people to resort to blame, to either evade the question, or rather get out of trouble, or to control the amount of damage that can occur. Blame is a large factor in Romeo and Juliet, as it creates multiple conflicts in the story, as well as making it hard to perceive the truth. The largest factors to blame for Romeo and Juliet’s deaths is Tybalt and Friar Lawrence.
A factor to blame for the deaths of Romeo and Juliet is Tybalt. This factor is significant, because Tybalt causes and starts more than one problem between the Montagues and the Capulets. During the scene at the party, Tybalt shows great distaste towards Romeo, as Romeo had recently played around with Rosaline, and just did not like him. During this scene, Tybalt goes to his uncle, Capulet, and tells him that Romeo is there at the party, and Capulet tells him to let it go but he cannot and will not. This shows that Tybalt is in part a factor leading to the lovers’ deaths, as he can not forgive Romeo and this leads to many problems later. This causes a ripple effect , leading to Mercutio’s and his own deaths. During the duel scene, when Romeo will not fight Tybalt, Mercutio instead fights him, being killed when Romeo attempts to stop the fight and Mercutio gets stabbed under the arm. Tybalt storms off, but then returns soon wanting to fight Romeo, and