Responsibility In Shakespeare's Romeo And Juliet

Romeo and Juliet is a catastrophe, but whose fault is it? This play is about teenagers Romeo Montague and Juliet Capulet, who experience love at first sight at a party but are unable to be together because of their family feud. The Capulet and Montague families rivalry compels Romeo and Juliet to hide their relationship and wedding, which is sufficient until Lord Capulet forces Juliet to marry Count Paris. Paris and Juliet's impending wedding causes Juliet and Friar Lawrence to construct a plan for Juliet to be with Romeo. So, they create a scheme for Juliet to fake her death by taking a sleeping potion, which goes fatally wrong because Romeo misapprehends the circumstances and perpetrates suicide, so Juliet does the same since they would rather

Romeo is impulsive by killing Tybalt after seeing his friend, Mercutio, slaughtered, instead of thinking his decision through and avoiding punishment. Romeo states, "And fire-eyed fury be my conduct now." (3.1.123). That indicates that rather than thinking his decision through, he uses what he expresses as "fury" to determine what to do. Using his anger to decide what to do is not a clever idea because it leads to him obliterating Tybalt and getting exiled from Verona, which is the primary crisis of this play. This shows that his quick judgment provoked the tragedy. It is certain that Romeo is acting impulsive because it is common for teenagers. Author Dan Romer says, “Teenagers are just learning to be adults, and this inevitably involves a certain degree of risk”(Romer 4). This means that teenagers are more likely to be risk takers and make poor decisions so Romeo’s was likely at fault for all these poor actions. These poor actions were caused by his impulsive brain but it's still his mind, making it his own fault. This paragraph's point is significant because it shows how Romeo’s impulsiveness contributed to the

It was not the parents fault because Romeo and Juliet were never honest with them. In this scene, Romeo is attempting to make Friar Lawrence marry him and Juliet. "We met, we wooed and made exchange of vow I’ll tell thee as we pass, but this I pray,/ That thou consent to marry us today." (2.3.66-68). This shows how Juliet and Romeo talked to Friar Lawrence about their wedding and having him marry them secretly. Revealing, it was their fault since they did not even try to tell Juliet’s father and Romeo's parents about how in love they were. They just instantly try to get married without even asking. Juliet is talking to Romeo about how she would choose him over her parents. She says, "Deny thy father and refuse thy name; / Or, if thou wilt not, be but sworn my love, / And I'll no longer be a Capulet." (2.2.34-36). This quote shows how, even though Juliet's family has always been there for her and always worked hard to provide for her, she chooses a guy she knows for a week over her parents. It's indicated she prefers to be with Romeo because she said she would "no longer be a Capulet". She always treated her parents horribly during this play. Even if they were not allowing her to do much, she could still do a lot for girls at the time because this period had very different rules for women. This paragraph shows that this tragedy was not the fault of their