Who Is To Blame For The Fall Of Romeo And Juliet Essay

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Parents of all backgrounds wish to marry their children to carry on the family name. As marriage is such an important topic, families care much about the background and family of the significant other. Still, family feuds could cut them short due to disagreements over religion, money, and more. Romeo and Juliet, a play by William Shakespeare, creates this conflict between the families of Capulets and Montagues who both want marriages for their children. As Romeo and Juliet develop a relationship, it gets torn apart but also bonded together as these conflicts help them to have trust and love in one another. Although Paris initiated the idea of marriage, the Montague and Capulet parents are to blame for Romeo and Juliet’s demise because of the …show more content…

The pressure that both families had on their children, to hate each other, was too much to bear and led to plans that could’ve been avoided which ended in death. The Montague and Capulet parents are to blame for the demise of their children as they pressured their children into marriage and had a desire to end the family feud. Many may say that Friar Laurence is the cause of Romeo and Juliet’s demise because the death of both of them was due to his letter not being sent to Romeo and the flawed plan that he and Juliet had developed. This unflawed plan had come into action as Romeo had assumed Juliet had died since he did not get a letter. Romeo’s heartbrokenness at this idea he made up leads him to the Apothecary who unknowingly sells him a bottle of poison when Romeo cries, “O true apothecary! Thy drugs are quick to take. Thus with a kiss, I die” (5.2.119-120). Romeo, in his mentally unstable set of mind, expresses his gratitude to the Apothecary, crying out his name, and thanks him for a suicide potion for his broken