Who Was The Most Responsible For The Deaths Of Romeo And Juliet Essay

In the play Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare, there are many deaths caused by many factors. The person that is most responsible for all of the deaths in the play is Romeo. One example is that Romeo is responsible for the death of Mercutio. The day after the party, Tybalt is still mad about Romeo coming and calls him a villain. Tybalt eventually tells Romeo to draw his sword, but Romeo refuses telling him he loves him. Mercutio is not happy that he refused to fight and says, “Will you pluck your sword out of his pilcher by the ears? Make haste, lest mine be about your ears ere it be out. / I am for you. / Gentle Mercutio, put thy rapier up. / Come sir, your passado!” (III.i.78-83) In this scene, Mercutio challenges Tybalt to fight while Romeo tries to get Mercutio to put his sword down.

This is ultimately Romeo’s fault because he was the one that didn’t fight Tybalt leading Mercutio to “volunteer” to fight him. Another death caused by Romeo is Juliet’s. Before either Romeo or Juliet die, Juliet and Friar Lawrence plan to put her into a death-like state so she won’t have to marry Paris. The plan takes a turn however, when Romeo sees Juliet in this state. Juliet wakes up soon after and says, “What’s here? A cup, clos’d in my true love’s hand? Poison, I see, hath been his timeless end...Thy lips are warm! / Lead, boy. Which way? / Yea, noise? Then I’ll be brief. O happy dagger! This is thy sheath; there rust, and let me die (V.iii.161-170). As shown in this scene, the only reason Juliet killed herself was because she saw her true love dead with poison in his