Who Is To Blame For Romeo And Juliet's Death

Many readers who have read The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet by Shakespeare blame their deaths on themselves, this could not be any further from the truth. Written centuries ago, but still very relevant today, this story unfolds in the city of Verona, a city warped by the feud between Montague and Capulet houses during this conflict. These two people are claimed as star-crossed lovers who create a love so deep it threatens to take everything from them, as the Act I prologue warns, their love is doomed to the tragedy of death. The responsibility for the deaths of Romeo and Juliet could be shifted onto Friar Laurence, the Feud between the Montagues and Capulets, and Friar John. The tragic deaths of the star-crossed lovers, Romeo and Juliet, were

In the play, The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet, Friar Laurence makes many poor decisions with Romeo and Juliet such as marrying them and knowing their families highly dislike each other, having Juliet fake her death to run away with Romeo, and abandoning Juliet after seeing her husband dead when she woke up. The play script shows this behavior from Friar Laurence by stating, “Oh, she knew well Thy love did read by rote, that could not spell. But come, young waverer, come, go with me, In one respect I'll thy assistant be, For this alliance may so happy prove To turn your households rancor to pure love.”(II.3.88-93) He is stating this marriage may fix the Feud between the families, well aware of the side effects possibly making the families hatred grow deeper for each other for sneaking around the adults. Friar Lawrence had many causes in the tragic deaths of Romeo and Juliet, but Friar John also had a large part in these deaths. The deaths of the star-crossed lovers, Romeo and Juliet, are not their faults, though the blame could be shifted onto the feud between the Montague and Capulet families. The play begins with servants of the Capulet and Montague