Who Was Responsible For The Deaths Of Romeo And Juliet Essay

William Shakespeare’s play Romeo and Juliet (1595) is about two star-crossed lovers that fall in love, but the hatred of their two families does not allow them to be united until the two lovers take extreme measures to be together. Throughout the play many characters cause mental or physical harm to Romeo Montague and Juliet Capulet causing tragedy to ensue. In the play, many factors lead to the death of Romeo and Juliet, and several characters are the reason why these lovers die. Lord Capulet and Lady Capulet, and Lord Montague and Lady Montague use their parental expectations to control Romeo and Juliet. Tybalt and Mercutio are responsible for Romeo’s reason to stop living and therefore bring Juliet to her end. Finally Friar Lawrence is

Throughout the play Lord Capulet is fiery and pugnacious when Lord Capulet informs Juliet she will be marrying Paris on Thursday Morning and Juliet tells Lord Capulet “Not proud you have, but thankful that you have. Proud can I never be of what I hate, But thankful even for hate that is mean’t love”(III.V.146-149). Lord Capulet starts to argue with Juliet telling her that she's an ungrateful child for not appreciating to marry Paris and tells her that if she doesn't marry Paris she can not live under his roof any further, Lord Capulet is also domineering, and generous. Lady Capulet is heartless, demanding, and unsympathetic when Lady Capulet tells Juliet that she decides the way to make Juliet feel better about Romeo killing Tybalt, is that she will get revenge on Romeo by sending a man to Mantua and poison Romeo’s drink, she doesn’t feel sympathy for Mercutio when Tybalt killed him, she’s

Ask for me tomorrow, and you shall find me a grave man. I am peppered, I warrant, for this world. A plague o’both your houses! Zounds, a dog a rat, a mouse, a cat to scratch a man to death! A braggart, a rouge, a villain that fights by the book of arithmetic! Why the devil came you between us? I was Hurt under your arm”(III.I.93-99). Tybalt is impulsive, saucy boy, and feisty when Tybalt feels his pride has been injured he quickly draws his sword to protect himself, Tybalt is aggressive and violent towards the Montagues(Romeo, Benvolio, and Mercutio). If Mercutio hadn’t of told Romeo to go to the Capulet feast to find a new beauty and forget about Rosaline, Romeo wouldn’t of met Juliet and Tybalt wouldn’t of had been mad/angry at Romeo for gate-crashing and try to get revenge back at Romeo for coming to the Feast. If Tybalt hadn’t of fought and killed Mercutio then Romeo wouldn’t of had to fight Tybalt to defend his friend Mercutio and fighting Tybalt wouldn’t had made Romeo guilty for Mercutio