Who Is Responsible For The Deaths Of Romeo And Juliet

The play “The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet” is a love story about two star crossed lovers that can't be together because of their parent’s feud. This results in them both ending their lives later in the play. Throughout the play there were many factors that led up to both of their deaths, but ultimately the main factor of their deaths was adult interference. There are many adults that play a part in their deaths, though the main three were Lord Capulet, the nurse, and Friar Lawrence.
In the play Lord Capulet is shown to be a caring and supportive dad who loves Juliet. And he even tells Paris “But woo her, gentle Paris, get her heart; my will to her consent is but a part”(1.2.16-17). This is a huge thing for Lord Capulet to do since back then because usually the dad’s would just send their daughters off with

The nurse's lack of interference also impacts Romeo and Juliet’s death. After the fight with her dad Juliet asks the nurse how she can prevent the marriage from happening and the nurse says “Romeo is banished; and all the world to nothing that he dares ne’er come back to challenge you; then, since the case so stands as now it doth, I think it's best you married with the County. O, he’s a lovely gentleman! Romeo’s a dishclout to him. An eagle, madam, hath not so green, so quick, so fair an eye as Paris hath. Beshrew my very heart, I think you are happy in this second match, for it excels your first; or if it did not, your first is dead-or ’twere as good he were as living here and you no use of him”( 3.5.215-227). The nurse has the opportunity to tell Juliet to come clean and tell everyone that she is already married to Romeo. Instead though, she gives Juliet that whole speech. This forces Juliet to take matters into her own hands and ask the friar for help, and if he can't help her she is going to kill