Who Is To Blame For Romeo And Juliet's Death

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William Shakespeare wrote lots of plays while he was alive, one of his most famous is, Romeo and Juliet. Romeo and Juliet is about, two households of equal wealth and power, are here in Verona where this story happened. From old arguments they broke into new fights, where bloodshed of the citizens has resulted. From these two enemies two star crossed lovers are born, meet and take their own lives and, in doing so, end the war between their families. In this play there are many people or things you could blame for the tragedy of Romeo Montague and Juliet Capulet, such as Tybalt Capulet. Tybalt does not do repeated thing to influence the tragedy, he does one crime which snowballs to majorly influence the Romeo and Juliet death. The first point of where Tybalt makes a huge influence of the survival of Romeo and Juliet is when he kills Mercutio. Mercutio is a part of the Montague family and is Romeo’s best friend. Tybalt first fills with rage and …show more content…

As Romeo has fled to Mantua because of his exile Juliet and Friar Lawrence are left to make a plan for Romeo and Juliet to be together. Because of the situation, Juliet is very emotional and is prepared to make rash decisions, even threatening, “I long to die, if what thou speak’st speak not of remedy.” This left Friar Lawrence to come up with a very daring plan that if anything went wrong someone would end up dead. One of the key parts of the plan is for Romeo to know what is happening. With everyone unaware of the plan except Juliet and Friar Lawrence, everyone thinks Juliet is dead. When Romeo hears the news and rushes to Verona with the intension of killing himself with a vile of poison lying next to Juliet. Romeo is a man of his word and did exactly what he set out to do, kill himself. A couple of minutes later Juliet followed Romeo to the same fate. Romeo’s journey to the Capulet tomb also left Paris