Who Was Responsible For Romeo And Juliet's Death

By suggesting that Romeo is responsible for Romeo and Juliet's death and characterizing him as rash, Shakespeare conveys the theme of lust is blinding to morals and rationality. I think Romeo is responsible because he is the one that decided things in the relationship and made crucial decisions without knowing any details. In the play, Romeo and Juliet by Shakespeare Romeo and Juliet fall in “love” in a matter of hours. They then plan to get married but that gets bumped to an earlier date because Juliet was to marry county Paris. Then Romeo kills Tybalt resulting in his banishment and Juliet fake kills herself because she saw no way out of marrying Paris. Romeo then kills himself and Paris because Juliet ”died”. Juliet then wakes and sees Romeo dead and tries to kill herself with the poison on his lips and that doesn’t work so she stabs herself. This last piece is significant because this is where their love fails and the knife is the last option.

“This gentleman, the Prince’s near ally, My very friend, hath got this mortal hurt In my behalf. My reputation stain'd With Tybalt’s slander—Tybalt, that an hour Hath been my cousin! O sweet Juliet, Thy beauty hath made me effeminate And in my temper softened valor’s steel.” The thing that popped into my mind during this quote is the regret that I believe is there and wishing he had done something to save mercutio. However this is also the point where romeo makes his first big mistake, he had just killed a man and that either meant he was to be killed or he was to be banished. This correlates to the theme because he made a decision without thinking of the consequences and one that didn’t only affect him but his wife as