Who Was Responsible For The Deaths Of Romeo And Juliet

In William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, the two teenagers fall in love and suffer a tragic ending. Both Romeo and Juliet make crazy choices so that they can be together. But, other characters in the play also make choices that have an impact on the play’s tragic ending. Friar Laurence, Lord Capulet, and Juliet herself have major impacts which give them reasons to be punished. Friar Laurence might seem like he benefited the play in a good way, but he plays a role in Juliet's death along with Romeo. The Friar agreed to marry two complete strangers who had only known each other for a short amount of time. Yet he still did while knowing the consequences there could be of marrying the two. In the text it says,” In one respect i’ll thy assistant be” (II.iii.90). He should have made a

Seeing Juliet's desperation, Friar said,” Hold daughter, I do spy a kind of hope” (IV.i.68). The Friar did not want to tell Romeo and Juliets parents that they were married. So, instead of doing the right thing, he decided to come up with a plan that led to Romeo and Juliets death. Capulet should also be punished, since he was aggressive towards his daughter and contributed to Juliet's death without knowing it. Capulet was aggressive by giving Juliet an ultimatum and made her choose between two things that she could never choose between.
Realizing Juliet would not listen to him, Capulet said,” Out you go you sickness carrion!” (IV.V.157-158). By Capulet doing this, it led Juliet to distance herself from him, and he wouldn’t accept that. He chose to become aggressive to Juliet, while he had no reason to and could have found a better way to handle the situation. Capulet thought that Juliet was fully reclaimed, and he decided,” Well go to the church tomorrow” (IV.ii.36). By doing this, Capulet messed up the plans for Romeo and Juliet which ended in their death. If he had never changed the date, Romeo and Juliet would have never