Who is Responsible for The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet? In theory, two noble households should be able to bypass differences and forgive others. Especially if the household's don't ever communicate with each other or even really know why the house hates one another. The prologue of Romeo and Juliet, gives a background of the two families, who are significant to the play, “Two households, both alike in dignity/ (In fair Verona, where we lay our scene)/ From ancient grudge break to new mutiny/ Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean” (Shakespeare Prologue 1-5). In the play Romeo and Juliet, two households have a strong disdain for one another. Coincidentally, the daughter of one of the houses, Juliet, falls in love with the son of the other house, Romeo. Their …show more content…
Despite all the odds against the two lovers, they get married in secret. But what Juliet does not know is that her father has set up another marriage for Juliet, as lord Capulet(Juliet's father) does not know about Romeo and Juliet's love. Juliet devises a plan to run away from Romeo. The dangerous plan would consequently cost them their lives. The guardians of the Capulet and Montague houses are most responsible for the tragedy of Romeo and Juliet because of their initial hatred for one another and the parents' ignorance towards their children's feelings and inner thoughts. By the end of the play many people fight and die at the hands of the Montagues and Capulets because of Romeo's ancient rivalry with Juliet's family. Throughout the play, multiple fight sequences occur between the Capulets and Montagues. As the play goes on, Juliet's cousin, Tybalt, wants to fight Romeo because he is a Montague. Before Romeo meets Juliet, he was in love with another woman, Rosaine. She rejected him so Romeo attends a ball hosted by the Capulets to get his mind off of Rosaline and on to another girl. He was not