Who Is Romeo Responsible For The Tragedy

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William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet is a tragic play about two star-crossed lovers who take their lives. For example although the place hundreds of years old it still has meaning of pride and too much dignity that still relatable today causing the topic to be timeless. The play ends tragically with no one character to specifically blame. However Romeo is most responsible for The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet because by killing Juliet's cousin, Tybalt, he causes himself to get banished and he is extremely rash. Romeo is most responsible for the tragedy because he killed Juliet’s cousin Tybalt causing him to get banished. In “And for that offence immediately we do exile him hence.” (Act 3, Scene 1, Line 188). In other words because everyone in the fight broke the law and is dead except for Romeo, he is being banished from Verona. This supports the claim that Romeo is most responsible for the tragedy by killing Juliet's cousin Tybalt because since he killed Tybalt Juliet is upset and crying about that and now that he's being banished on top of it she's just an emotional mess. So now to cheer up Juliet, her father is making her marry Paris in the next couple of days. If this was looked at through a cause and effect point of view it it is easy to see that Romeo is responsible for the tragedy. …show more content…

For example in Act 2, Scene 6, Lines 35-37 it reads, " Come, come with me and we will make short work, For, by your leaves , you shall not stay alone, Till Holy Church incorporate two in one." Basically Romeo is saying that they need to hurry up and get married so they will not be alone again. This is a very rash choice because Romeo has known Juliet for only a few days and he just had his heart broken by Rosilen. Also Friar Lawrence is trying to convince Romeo to wait a little bit and to think it