Is Mercutio To Blame For The Deaths Of Romeo And Juliet

Ms. Brandi Powell 3/18/24 Who’s Fault is it: Romeo and Juliet It’s pretty clear that Romeo and Juliet are both clearly too unstable to be blamed for their deaths because they threaten to kill themselves several times, and get married within 12 hours of having known each other, most of which were asleep. If they never met, no one would have died. So the only other person to be blamed is Mercutio. Mercutio didn’t have the idea to go to the party where Romeo and Juliet met, but he did say that Romeo should dance, which caused Romeo and Juliet to meet and this whole bloody mess to start. Romeo had no intention of dancing, he even said that he would hold a torch so that he could do something at the party. Later, Tybalt goes looking for a fight.

Mercutio tries to fight him. But then in a crazy plot twist Romeo comes, and successfully diffuses the situation! But then Mercutio just had to get in a fight with Tybalt, the best swordsman in Verona. And so Begin Match to source 1 in source list: Submitted to Saint Francis High School on 2010-02-15Romeo tries to stop them and ends up getting Mercutio killedEnd Match. Even if Begin Match to source 1 in source list: Submitted to Saint Francis High School on 2010-02-15RomeoEnd Match hadn’t stepped in Mercutio would have died anyway, because Mercutio plays too much and Tybalt actually knows how to fight Then, Mercutio had his whole monologue on how it was Romeo’s fault that he died, making Romeo angry, and causing him to kill Tybalt. Then Romeo gets banished and that makes his mom so sad she dies. It’s even Mercutio’s fault that Romeo’s mom dies. Some might argue that it’s the parent’s fault instead of Mercutio, although Romeo’s parents can’t be blamed because he is 19. They are doing him a service, still letting him live at their house. Romeo is a mooch, he is a