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Who To Blame In Romeo And Juliet

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Jacob Dangel Dr. Hanzel Snider Honors Intro to Literature 2/14/23 Romeo and Juliet In the play Romeo and Juliet there were many mishaps and stupid decisions leading to the deaths of the star crossed lovers. There are many people to blame, but the main three people with the biggest blame are Peter, Friar Lawrence, and Romeo himself. Peter is most to blame because of his lack of knowledge and desperate need for help. Friar Lawrence’s kind heart and Romeo’s need for lust also lead to the deaths of both Romeo and Juliet. Out of the many people that led to the deaths of Romeo and Juliet there is one in particular that can take the most blame, and that is Peter. Peter was an uneducated man and so he couldn’t read, yet he was still given the task …show more content…

This ties into a fate aspect because Peter didn’t really know what he was doing so blaming the deaths on him as a person wouldn’t really make sense, but blaming them on the choices he made would. Peter also had a desperate need for help causing him to ask Romeo to read his list: “But I pray, can you read anything you see?” (1.2.65). This quote and the last one both have a similar theme of Peter praying or begging to know if Romeo can read. The fact that Peter is begging Romeo and not just normally asking him if he can read means he might be punished in some type of way by Lord Capulet if he is not able to read this list off to the guests. This again ties more into the fate aspect of things because, by Peter having a desperate need for help he asked the …show more content…

Throughout the first few scenes of the play Romeo would talk about his “love” Rosaline. Romeo wasn’t going to get over her, but his friend Benvolio knew that he needed to so he suggested that they go to the party that Peter invited them to so Romeo would seek out other girls: “But in that crystal scales let there be weighed Your lady’s love against some other maid That I will show you shining at this feast, And she shall scant show well that now seems best” (1.2.103-106). Romeo agrees to go to the party, but not to look at other girls, rather to rejoice in Rosaline's beauty. If he wasn’t so caught up in Rosaline then Benvolio maybe wouldn’t have told him to go to the party which would then lead to Romeo and Juliet not meeting. Once Tybalt found out about Romeo going to the Capulet party he was not very happy causing him to get pretty angry and go after Romeo: “Mercutio, thou consortest with Romeo '' (3.1.46), “Well, peace be with you, sir. Here comes my man” (3.1.57). This led to Tybalt and Mercutio fighting where Mercutio dies and then Romeo avenging Mercutio and killing Tybalt which all in all led to the exile of Romeo. If Romeo were to have never gone to that party where he met Juliet then Tybalt would not have been mad at him and the big fight wouldn’t have broken out causing Romeo to be exiled which would eventually end up leading to the deaths of

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