Who Is To Blame For Romeo And Juliet's Death

Love is a powerful emotion that can cause those that it affects to do crazy things. In the case of Romeo and Juliet, as seen in William Shakespeare’s play, love ends in tragedy. Many characters and events play a part in the deaths of Romeo and Juliet, ultimately Romeo is to blame for this horrific outcome of this otherwise beautiful love story.

Romeo is ultimately to blame for the deaths of Romeo and Juliet because he only cares about being in love, not the people he falls in love with.Romeo is willing to risk whatever it takes to be in love. He quickly falls in and out of love because he cannot live without being in love with someone at any given time. He does not consider the impact his choices will have on him and others because he just

He is only led by his emotional impulses and is incapable of making good choices. Seeing as Romeo is unable to marry or be with Juliet due to the families that they belong to he is sent into sorrow.“O brawling love! O loving hate!”(Shakespeare 1.1.186).Romeo is confused about his emotions and cannot . She is his family's enemy and their love will never be accepted. But because Romeo is led purely by his emotions, he is quickly able to forget Rosaline and make Juliet the center of his

It could be argued that Romeo and Juliets deaths are due to their age and the immature development of their brains.” The prefrontal cortex is one of the last regions of the brain to reach maturation. This delay may help explain why some adolescents act the way they do” (US Department of Health and Human Services). Seeing as Romeo and Juliet are not old enough to have fully developed prefrontal cortexes. How can we expect them to make responsible decisions that will have serious consequences? Although this is a viable reason as to why Romeo and Juliet died, it discounts the role that others had on them. “ Beginning around age 12, adolescents decrease their reliance on concrete, here-and-how thinking and begin to show the capability for abstract thinking, visualization of potential outcomes, and logistical understanding of cause and effect. Teens begin looking at situations and deciding whether it is safe, risky, or dangerous”(US Department of Health and Human Services). Seeing as Romeo and Juliet were over the age of 12, their brains were able to think abstractly and realize what they are doing. They were able to make conscious decisions and were not acting solely on