Lady Capulet To Blame In Shakespeare's Romeo And Juliet

In William Shakespeare’s play, Romeo and Juliet, the deaths of the two title characters are both tragic and beautiful. Much could have been done to prevent their suicides, but these “star-crossed lovers” ultimately are not able to avoid their destiny. A series of unfortunate circumstances result in disaster, and although many people could be to blame for their deaths, Lady Capulet plays a particularly integral role. Lady Capulet is to blame for Romeo and Juliet’s death due to her selfish and immature ways of thinking. Lady Capulet holds a strong grudge against the Montagues, sharing this same grudge with the rest of the Capulets. After she learns about the death of her nephew, Tybalt, she goes into a rage. Lady Capulet calls Romeo a villain, without even taking into consideration that if Romeo should be called a villain for killing her nephew, then Tybalt as well should be

Friar Lawrence has a large influence on Romeo and Juliet’s death because due to his age, he had a big responsibility to disapprove of the haste of their marriage, and to make both families aware of it, but he didn’t. Friar Lawrence also did not take into account that the two’s families were enemies and the secret marriage of the two could just further the divide between them. Friar also put trust in another person, Friar John, to deliver a letter to Romeo, without telling him the urgency of it. If Friar Lawrence had told Friar John that the letter was very important and had to get to Romeo by a certain time, it would have gotten to him before. Friar Lawrence could have gone to speak to Romeo himself, so that Romeo could have made an opinion on Juliet’s decision. If Friar Lawrence had come out earlier to the families, explaining everything, including the toll their feud was taking on their children, The Montagues and the Capulets would have tried to end the feud sooner rather than