Mercutio Is To Blame For The Death Of Romeo And Juliet

There may be multiple people that play a role in the death of Romeo and Juliet; however, Mercutio should be assigned the blame. Romeo and Juliet is a play written by the famous playwright William Shakespeare. The play is about two star-crossed lovers who meet at a party and instantly fall in love but due to many complications, they have to keep their love a secret. The two decide to secretly marry but when Lord Capulet finds Juliet a husband, Romeo and Juliet are forced to think of schemes to protect their marriage. In the end, due to their unlucky situation and the interference of others, the two lovers commit suicide because they cannot be with each other. Mercutio is to blame for the death of the two lovers because he convinces Romeo to go to the party, gets into a fight with Tybalt and curses the houses of Romeo and

Tybalt is still bitter about the Montagues crashing the party and he goes looking for a fight. Romeo tries to keep the peace by responding to Tybalt's request to fighting saying, "The reason that I have to love thee/ doth much excuse the appertaining rage" (3.1.59-60). Tybalt continues to poke for a fight and Mercutio steps in and begins to fight. It is obvious that Romeo does not want a fight to take place because while the fight is ongoing he is trying to stop them. After Tybalt kills Mercutio, Romeo goes after Tybalt and ends up killing him. When the prince finds out, Romeo is banished and this leads to the final scheme that pushes Romeo and Juliet to commit Suicide. This is the fault of Mercutio because it is not his own fight and even when his friend makes it clear that he didn't want a fight Mercutio still went after Tybalt. When Romeo sees his friend dying he has to avenge him which leads to trouble. Mercutio was too abrupt in his decision to fight; if he had listened to Romeo nobody would have died that day and the outcome of the story would have been