Responsibility For The Deaths Of Shakespeare's Romeo And Juliet

So who really is at fault for the epic lovers’ deaths? The two lovers, Romeo and Juliet, came to their tragic deaths at the end of the play. In the play, Romeo and Juliet’s suicides were a tragic ending to a story full of young love. The teenagers from feuding families fall in love causing drama throughout Verona eventually leading to their deaths. After their suicides, it is up for debate who is really at fault for Romeo and Juliet’s deaths. Could it be Friar who married them then creates the plan to put Juliet in a deep sleep, is it their own decisions, possibly within the families who have a lifelong feud, or even the Nurse who is always around knowing the secrets? In William Shakespeare's “Romeo and Juliet,” the families of Romeo and Juliet

"Hand thee, young baggage! Disobedient wretch! / I tell thee what–get thee to church a' Thursday / Or never after look me in the face. / My fingers itch. Wife, we scarce thought us blest / That God had lent us but this only child; / But now I see this one is one too much / And that we have a curse in having her. / Out on her, hilding!" (Shakespeare 3.5. 161-169). In this scene Juliet is being yelled at by Capulet because she told him that she does not want to marry Paris. Capulet is so upset that he yells at Juliet in a terrible manner. In order to try to get away from her father, she wants to run away with Romeo. A more in depth analysis states, "… but when he learns of her refusal to marry Paris, he at first seems stunned and then explodes, using perocious language" (Evans). Repeatedly states the same anger from Capulet about how Juliet does not want to marry Paris. The Capulets’ relationship with the Montagues is in the way of Juliet and Romeo, how their families get along makes sure that their children can not be together. The families being strict on not letting Romeo and Juliet be together affects the teenagers later on in the story because if they were allowed to be together then they would not have had to create Friar’s plan to be together which led to their deaths. The Montagues and Capulets not letting them be together contributes to Romeo and

In the beginning of the play Capulet says, "What noise is this? Give me my king sword ho!" / "My sword, I say! Old Montague is come / And flourishes his blade in spite of me" (Shakespeare 1.1.74-75). This first scene shows Capulet wanting to draw his sword which shows the lengths each family will go to. The hate for the other family later leads to Romeo and Juliet wanting to run away because they know their families will never let them be together because of their feud. More research states, "At the centre of each novella one dangerous confrontation had occurred: the brawl between Montagues and Capulets that leads to Romeo's banishment" (Levenson 103). The brawling of the Montagues and Capulets is what leads to Romeo’s banishment. After Romeo’s banishment during Friar Lawrence’s plan Romeo is not in Verona. Romeo being away causes Friar John’s journey of getting the letter from Friar Lawrence to Romeo to take longer. Since Romeo is banished from Verona Friar John had to journey to get the letter to him, however Friar John is delayed by quarantine and the letter about Friar Lawrence’s plan does not get to Romeo in time before he finds out himself. When Romeo finds out about Juliet supposedly dying he goes to find her and ended up committing suicide. Another piece of evidence says, "Thinking that the union of a Montague and