Romeo And Juliet Who Is To Blame Essay

William Shakespeare’s play “Romeo and Juliet” is a tragedy with many interlocking storylines that ultimately end in both Romeo and Juliet killing themselves. One of the main controversial topics on the play is the idea of who to blame for the two lovers deaths. While some people have strong feelings towards Friar Laurence as the main cause of Romeo and Juliet’s deaths, but I believe the fault is on the Capulets, Montagues, and Romeo and Juliet themselves. Without the original family argument, I believe that the tragedy of Romeo and Juliet wouldn’t exist at all. This of course comes from both sets of families. Starting with the Capulets, my understanding is that they always pushed Juliet to fit their own expectations. In her young age, this

The obvious reason I believe the Capulets are to blame is because of how forceful they are towards Juliet. When Juliet and her father got into an argument he stated, “I tell thee what: get thee to church a’ Thursday or never look me in the face. Speak not, reply not, do not answer me.” This puts Juliet in a horrible position because she wants to obey her father and stay in the Capulet family, but she has already married Romeo. Lord Capulet pushed Juliet to marry Paris when the two didn’t even know each other well at all. The pressure of another marriage, when she hadn’t even told her family about her first, was too much for Juliet and was the reason she faked her death. Even before faking death, Juliet threatened to kill herself multible times. But before Romeo and Juliet fell in love, any one of the Capulets could have stopped them from meeting. Tylalt sees that Romeo is a Montague and wants to force him away, but Lord

The main source of fault lies in the feud that the Capulets and Montagues have had between eachother for years. I truly believe that, if these families could at least put up with eachothers presence, Romeo and Juliet would’ve been able to live a lovely life together. But because of their last names, they had to stay a secret. When Juliet found out that Romeo was a Montague she said, “My only love sprung from my only hate! Too early seen unknown, and known too late!” The Montagues are partilaly to blame because they are the enemy of Juliet’s family. This mutual family hatred is so deep rooted that the reader never genuinely gets reasoning behind it. Once seeing both Romeo and Juliet dead, the families are able to put the feud behind them. Lord Montague even saying, “But I can give thee more. For I will raise her statue in pure gold.” He tells Lord Capulet that he will have a gold stature of Juliet put up to praise her. This further proves that it was possible for the families to put aside their rivalry. I believe that the Montagues should also take blame for the deaths of Romeo and Juliet. While they didn’t have as large of an impact as the Capulets, they still made one half of the